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History 381: Asian Experience

History 381: Asian Experience. World War II. Rise of Militarism in Japan. Disastrous effect of the Depression Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi Lowered price of Japanese goods on the world market to get back a higher level of exports Assassinated May 1932

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History 381: Asian Experience

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  1. History 381: Asian Experience World War II

  2. Rise of Militarism in Japan • Disastrous effect of the Depression • Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi • Lowered price of Japanese goods on the world market to get back a higher level of exports • Assassinated May 1932 • Political opponents terrorized by untranationalists • “Asia for Asians” by Kita Ikki • Failed coup in 1936 by junior officers Emperor Hirohito (1926-1989)

  3. Road to War: Asia • Japan • Mukden Incident, September 1931 • Seizure of Manchuria • United States refuses to recognize • Clash at Marco Polo Bridge, July, 1937 • Japanese New Order in East Asia • Demands right to occupy airfield and exploit economic resources of Indochina, summer 1940 • United States warns of economic sanctions • Japan • Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, December 7, 1941 • Germany declared war in the U.S., December 11, 1941 • Great East-Asia Co-prosperity Sphere

  4. ©2004 Wadsworth, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Thomson Learning™ is a trademark used herein under license. WWII in Asia and Pacific

  5. War in the Pacific • United States program of Lend-Lease • Agreement to fight until unconditional surrender of the Axis • Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 • Pacific Theater of Operations • Southwest Pacific (Army command) & Central Pacific (Navy command) • Battle of the Coral Sea, May 7-8, 1942 • Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942 • Solomon Islands, November 1942 • Island hopping: Tarawa, Pelilieu, New Guinea, Guam, Iwo Jima, Okinawa

  6. ©2004 Wadsworth, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Thomson Learning™ is a trademark used herein under license. World War II in Asia and the Pacific

  7. Japan fully mobilized society for war • Did not use women for labor • Conference at Tehran, November 1943 • Future course of the war, invasion of the continent for 1944 • Agreement for the partition of postwar Germany • Declaration on Liberated Europe

  8. Emergence of the Cold War • Conference at Yalta, February 1945 • Soviet military assistance for the war against Japan • Creation of a United Nations • German unconditional surrender • Free elections in Eastern Europe • Conference at Potsdam, July 1945 • Truman replaces Roosevelt • Attlee replaces Churchill • Stalin refuses to allow free elections in Eastern Europe

  9. Postwar Japan • Difficulty of invading the Japanese homeland • Atomic bomb ends war • Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 • Nagasaki, August 9, 1945 • Japan surrenders August 15, 1945 • Americans occupy Japan • Status of Emperor • New constitution & democracy

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