Japan's Move to War

By eauchter

  • Japan-Korea Treaty

    Japan forced Korea to agree to it
    3 terms:
    Japanese citizens couldn't be tried in Korea
    Koreas didn't have to pay China money anymore
    Japan could use 3 of Korea's ports

  • Meijing Constitution

    prime minister head of state
    privy counsel, military, & cabinet had more power
    established a parliament called Diet

  • Korea Asked Japan for Help

    Korea asked Japan for help with putting down a peasant revolt. Japan though Korea violated the treaty and assassinated Korean Empress Myeongseong.
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    First Sino-Japanese War

    Caused by Japanese invasions & China banning Japanese imports
    Japan invaded Manchuria
    Japan seized Port Arthur & Weihaiwei

  • Treaty of Shimonoseki

    requested by China
    Japan got:
    Taiwan & Liaodong Peninsula
    could use the Yangtze River
    factories could import at 4 Chinese ports
    compensated with money from China

  • Taiwan Declared Independence

    Taiwan declared itself the Republic of Formosa
    challenged Japanese rule but 5 months later Japan won and Taiwan was again under Japanese control

  • Anglo-Japanese Alliance

    between Britain & Japan because they were worried about Russia's increasing control over China
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    Russo-Japanese War

    only non-european state to win a war against a european state

  • Treaty of Portsmouth

    Terms:
    Japanese troops give Manchuria to China
    Japan could lease Liaodong & P.A from China
    Japan could lease the Southern Manchurian Railway
    recognized Japan control over Korea Japan got:
    international respect
    control of Korea (US got the Philippines)
    extension of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance

  • Twenty-One Demands

    Japan issued to China
    reduced to 13 demands
    China agreed because Japan was powerful

  • Paris Peace Conference

    all LN members agreed on collective security
    Japan got Shantung Peninsula but China got it back in a few years with US help
    Japan could administer Germany's Pacific territories

  • Four-Power Treaty

    between Britain, France, the US, and Japan
    they were to respect each others territories

  • Five-Power Treaty

    between the US, Britain, & Japan
    no battleships to be made for 10 yrs
    scrap some capital ships (most valuable war ships)
    5:5:3 ratio of capital ships (US:Britain:Japan)

  • Nine-Power Treaty

    Japan agreed to remove military from Shantung Peninsula

  • Peace Protection Law of 1925

    people in Japan could get arrested & executed for wanting to change the Japanese government system

  • The Great Depression

    Japan relied on exports to the US
    GNP fell 20% by 1931
    Tokyo Stock Market lost 50% of its value
    unemployment & political unrest rose

  • London Naval Conference

    Japan increased the ratio of battleships to 60%
    60% ratio of cruisers remained
    ultranationalists were against this which led to one of them assassinating the Japanese prime minister

  • The Mukden Incident

    a bomb damaged the South Manchurian Railway
    Japan blamed China
    historians believe Japan placed the bomb
    because of this, Japan invaded Manchuria
    led to the establishment of Manchukuo
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    Attempted Coups d'état

    led by radical factions
    assassinated high rank officials

  • Stimson Doctrine

    US wouldn't acknowledge any treaties or agreements between Japan & China that violated US rights

  • Tanggu Truce

    between China & Japan
    Japan had control over Manchuria
    China promised not to attempt to remove Japan from Manchuria
    creation of neutral territory between Japanese & Chinese territories

  • Umezu-He Agreements

    Japan used the assassination to force China to accept it
    allowed Japan to establish a puppet government (East Hebei Autonomous Council) in the Hebei Province

  • Doihara Kenji-Qin Dechun Agreement

    China would remove all troops from the Manchukuo border

  • Anti-Comintern Pact

    Japan & Germany against communism

  • Marco Polo Bridge Incident

    Chinese & Japanese troops fought at the bridge
    China refused to apologize
    Japan took Beijing which forced Chinese troops south
    China retaliated by bombing Japan's part of Shanghai

  • Nanjing Massacre

    Prince Asaka headed the Central China Army (against China) and ordered the execution of all Chinese prisoners
    an estimated 300,000 people died
    turned the world view against Japan
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    Second Sino-Japanese War

    Japan's goal was to capture Shanghai
    Japan was brutal (ex. Japanese troops had contests to see who could kill the fastest)
    Japan assumed the war would be over in 3 months

  • Nazi-Soviet Pact

    signed by Germany
    violated the Anti-Comintern Pact
    led tot he fall of the Japanese government
    the new government tried to improve relations with the Soviet Union, Germany, & Italy

  • Tripartite Pact

    a formal alliance between Germany, Italy, & Japan

  • Soviet Union Treaty

    Japan signed a treaty with the Soviet Union

  • The Hull Note

    Cordell Hull, US Secretary of State demanded Japan to:
    remove all troops from China & French Indochina
    end participation in the Tripartite Pact
    renounce its puppet government

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    sunk 4 battleships, damaged 4 others
    sinking/damaging of at least 8 other ships, including 3 cruisers
    destroyed 188 aircrafts
    killed more than 2400 & injured at least 1200.
    led to the US declaring war on Japan & officially entering WW2