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Lesson 13 - Part 2 WW II -- Global War, Global Strategy Japan’s Road to War

Lesson 13 - Part 2 WW II -- Global War, Global Strategy Japan’s Road to War. Meanwhile …. In the Western Pacific. Japan had been at war with China since 1931. Japanese Expansion. Empire of Japan - 1910. Conquest of Korea 1910. Second Sino-Japanese War. 1937 - 1945.

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Lesson 13 - Part 2 WW II -- Global War, Global Strategy Japan’s Road to War

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  1. Lesson 13 - Part 2 WW II -- Global War, Global Strategy Japan’s Road to War

  2. Meanwhile …. In the Western Pacific Japan had been at war with China since 1931

  3. Japanese Expansion Empire of Japan - 1910 Conquest of Korea 1910

  4. Second Sino-Japanese War 1937 - 1945 Japan had been at war with China since 1931 Conquest of Manchuria September 1931

  5. Second Sino-Japanese War 1937 - 1945 Japan had been t war with China since 1931 Japanese Conquest 1937-1941

  6. Nanking Massacre December 1937 “The Rape of Nanking” Over 300,000 people butchered

  7. Background Yangtze River Patrol US Navy had a presence on Yangtze River 1856-1941 • Fallout from the “Unequal Treaties” negotiated by Western powers after the Opium Wars (1839-1842 & 1856-1860) Yangtze Patrol began 1922 as part of US Asiatic Squadron • Protected US interests (shipping) along the river

  8. Attack on USS Panay December 12, 1937 USS Panay sinking - 12 Dec 1937

  9. Attack on USS Panay December 12, 1937 2:15 Attack on Ship Sinking of Ship Preliminary Events

  10. Thesis The grand scope of World War II was determined by a battle you never heard of fought before the war in Europe began.

  11. Japan’s Next Step After China Two factions in Japanese government • “Northern” Faction (Northern Strike Group) • Led by Army • Favored move north into USSR • “Southern” Faction (Southern Strike Group) • Led by Navy • Favored move south into Dutch East Indies

  12. Events Battle of Khalkin Gol (Nomonhan) July-August 1939 The most significant battle you’ve never heard of! A

  13. Events Battle of Khalkin Gol (Nomonhan) July-August 1939 Soviet victory Significance: • Japan abandoned northern strategy • Turned south • Set up confrontation with US • USSR able to divert resources toward the west and Germany • Established Gen. Georgi Zhukov as armor commander Reader’s Companion to Military History: Khalkin Gol

  14. Japan’s Path to War Increase in Militarism in Japanese society

  15. Japan’s Path to War Increase in Militarism in Japanese society US moves Pacific Fleet to Hawaii (May 1940) Great East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere declared (Aug 1940) Move into northern French Indochina (Sep 1940) Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis formed (Tripartite Pact, Sep 1940) US embargos iron & steel exports to Japan (Sep 1940) Vichy government accedes to Japanese request for bases in southern Indochina (July 1941)

  16. Japan Occupies Southern Indochina Japan’s Oil Lifeline 1941 . Cam Ranh Bay

  17. Japan’s Path to War Increase in Militarism in Japanese society US moves Pacific Fleet to Hawaii (May 1940) Great East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere declared (Aug 1940) Move into northern French Indochina (Sep 1940) Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis formed (Tripartite Pact, Sep 1940) US embargos iron & steel exports to Japan (Sep 1940) Vichy government accedes to Japanese request for bases in southern Indochina (July 1941) US embargos shipments of oil to Japan (Aug 1941)

  18. Events US Pacific Fleet attacked at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941

  19. Japanese Decision to War Calculated risk? or Risky calculation?

  20. Instruments of National Power Diplomacy Information Military Economic Power Resolve What did the Japanese miss?

  21. Instruments of National Power Economic Power Allied and Axis GDP http://www.onwar.com/articles/f0302.htm

  22. Economic Power Wikipedia

  23. Instruments of National Power Diplomacy Information Military Economic Power Resolve What else did the Japanese miss?

  24. Instruments of National Power Diplomacy Information Military Economic Power Resolve Resolve What else did the Japanese miss?

  25. Japanese Decision to War "One can search military history in vain for an operation more fatal to the aggressor." Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. III, The Rising Sun in the Pacific To be continued …

  26. Lesson 14 WW II -- Battle of Britain

  27. Lesson Objectives •  Understand the implications of strategic air warfare in World War II. •  Be able to describe and analyze the German strategy in the Battle of Britain. •  Describe the impact of new technology on the Battle of Britain. •  Describe and analyze the strategic bombing campaign against Germany.

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