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Japan Between the Wars

Japan Between the Wars. HWH UNIT 10 CHAPTER 15.5. Japan in the 1920s. During WWI Japan increased its presence in China Took the Shandong peninsula from Germany In the 1920s Internal conflict Conservative military Liberal youth Zaibatsu influenced the government Less foreign expansion

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Japan Between the Wars

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  1. Japan Between the Wars HWH UNIT 10 CHAPTER 15.5

  2. Japan in the 1920s • During WWI • Japan increased its presence in China • Took the Shandong peninsula from Germany • In the 1920s • Internal conflict • Conservative military • Liberal youth • Zaibatsu influenced the government • Less foreign expansion • Emerging Marxism

  3. Japan and the Depression • The emergence of “Ultranationalists” • Resented politicians for appeasing Western demands • Advocated more foreign expansion • Invasion of Manchuria, 1931 • Set up a puppet state (Manzhouguo or Manchukuo) • Pu Yi as puppet emperor • Japan pulls out of the League of Nations

  4. Militaristic Japan • By 1937, the military dominates Japan’s government • Renewed deification of the Emperor (Hirohito) • Alliance with Germany and Italy • More expansion • Full-scale invasion of China, 1937 • The Rape of Nanjing, 1937

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