CHINA, JAPAN, and WORLD WAR II

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CHINA, JAPAN, and WORLD WAR II
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The Aftermath of the 1911 Revolution

• Sun Yat-sen (Sun Yixian, Sun Zhongshan)
• Kuomintang (KMT) The Nationalist Party, 1912
• Song Jiaoren
• Gen. Yuan Shikai
• Guaomindang
• Chinese Communist Party

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Political Fragmentation and Chaos

• Yuan Shikai assassinates Song Jiaoren
• CCP domination of the KMT
• New statement of principles

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Civil War in China

• The KMT army
• Trained and equipped by the Soviets
• Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)
• Zhou Enlai

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The Long March, 1934-35

• Mao Zedong

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Japanese Militarism

• Japanese participation in World War I
• Disrespecting Japan
• Washington Naval Conference, 1921-1922
• Growing internal unrest
• Growing power of the military
• Little experience with democracy
• Assassination of Inukai Tsuyoshi, 1932
• The Society for Assisting the Imperial Rule, 1940

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Japanese Militarism

• The Kwantung Army
• The Mukden (Shenyang) Incident
• Manchuria / Manchukuo, 1931
• Puyi

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The Sino-Japanese War

• Marco Polo Bridge, Beijing, 1937
• Attack on Shanghai
• The Nanjing Massacre / the Rape of Nanking

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The Road to World War II

• War in Europe, September 1940
• Occupation of French Indochina, Sept. 1940
• American embargoes
• Cultural misunderstandings
• Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

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World War II in Asia

• Retreat
• Corregidor, May 6, 1942
• Stopping the advance
• Midway, June 3-5, 1942
• Island-Hopping
• Guadalcanal, August 1942 February 1943

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World War II in Asia

• Approaching the Home Islands
• Kamikaze
• Bombing begins, Nov. 1944

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World War II in Asia

• Iwo Jima, February March 1945
• Okinawa, March June 1945
• Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
• Nagasaki, August 9, 1945
• Japanese surrender, September 1945