from isolationism to war chapter 17, sections 17.3 & 17.4
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From Isolationism to War
Chapter 17, Sections 17.3 & 17.4
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Setting the Scene• 1850 – Japan
was a feudal state that was forced to open it borders and trade with the world.
• Modern economy and elected government
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Setting the Scene
• Signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and help found the League of Nations
• Great Depression hurts their economy; Military blames government, and begins to gain more power.
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Manchurian Incident
• Japanese military invades Manchuria for raw materials and farmland
• Civilian government powerless to stop the action.
• Japan is criticized, and withdraws from League of Nations
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Japan’s Military Gains Power• Assassinations and Uprisings• Invasion of mainland China is sparked by an
“Incident” at the Marco Polo Bridge
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• Continues invasion of China• Technology and Technique quickly overcome
Chinese numbers.
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“Rape of Nanking”
• Estimated 350,000 deaths, 80,000 rapes
• Mass executions, rape, looting, and arson.
• 1/3 of Nanking is destroyed by fire.
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'Incredible Record' —Mukai 106 – 105 Noda—Both 2nd Lieutenants Go Into
Extra Innings"
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Gen. Joe Stilwell
U.S. Army Rep to China who helped to defend China from Japanese aggression.
Helped get supplies to Chinese forces fighting Japanese troops.
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Burma Road
British/American supply line to the Chinese during WWII.
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Stalemate in China
• By 1939, Japan controlled many cities in China, while the Chinese controlled the countryside.
• Japan begins to expand its “Co-Prosperity Sphere”.
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“Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”• Japan’s version of lebensraum
• Japan will “free Asians from Western Colonizers”
• Japan actually wants all the resources for war efforts
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• Congress passes the Neutrality Acts. We can’t trade with any warring nation.
• Cash and Carry – we’ll sell, but you haul it.
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America First Committee
• Group of Influential Americans determined to keep America out of the war in Europe
• Charles Lindebergh
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The fall of Poland and France kills US neutrality and increases aid to Britain
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• Churchill – “Britain is going broke”
• Roosevelt asks the American people:
“If your neighbors house was on fire, you don’t sell him your hose, you lend it to him”.
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Lend Lease - This increases the American role in the growing conflict.
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Tojo Elected As Japanese Prime Minister
• Part of the Japanese Military and favors war with U.S.
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Pearl Harbor
• Sunday Dec. 7, 1941 • Japan was looking for a “Knockout-blow”• We knew that Japan was planning an attack, we
just didn’t know where.
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• 4 battleships sunk, • 4 battleships damaged including 1 run aground• 2 destroyers sunk• 1 damaged
1 other ship sunk, 3 damaged• 3 cruisers damaged
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• 2,402 military killed• 1,247 military wounded• 57 civilians killed• 35 civilians wounded
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• 188 aircraft destroyed• 155 aircraft damaged
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• US Declares war on Japan Dec. 8th, Germany and Italy declare war on the US December 11th, 1941.
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