1936-1941

JAPAN’S ROAD TO WWII

COLLECTIVE SECURITY

• November 1936

• The Anti Comintern Pact

• Italy’s role

• Removed from Isolation

JAPANESE INFLUENCE IN CHINA

• The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)

• Korea and Taiwan

• The Manchurian Crisis

• 1931-1937

THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR

• Marco-Polo Bridge

• July 1937

• What started the incident?

THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR

• July 8, 1937

• Attempts at peace

• The role of Chiang Kai-shek

• FDR’s Quarantine speech

THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR

• The Battle of Shanghai

• Nanjing (Nanking)

• December 1937

THE SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR

• Chemical and Bacteriological Warfare

• Emperor Hirohito

FOREIGN SUPPORT

• General Thoughts concerning China

• Hitler’s role

• Soviet Assistance

• Operation Zet

INDOCHINA

• France fell to Germany (June 1940)

• French Indo-China

• Franklin Roosevelt

JAPAN GAINS MORE COLLECTIVE SECURITY

• The Tripartite Pact (Sept. 27. 1940)

• Germany, Italy, and Japan

• The Nazi-Soviet Pact

• Other members

FDR

• Reaction to Japan’s conquest of Indochina

• July 1941

• Reasons for Japanese aggression towards America