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Title: THE JAPANESE EMPIRE


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THE JAPANESE EMPIRE
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COMMODORE PERRY AND THE BLACK SHIPS
  • US sends Commodore Matthew Perry and a small
    fleet to open Japan to trade and diplomatic
    relations
  • In 1854.
  • Creates tumultuous period of change in Japanese
    society

3
MEIJI RESTORATION - 1868
  • Young emperor takes over ends era of shoguns
  • Embarks on rapid modernization of all facets of
    Japanese life.

4
JAPANS MODELS FOR MODERNIZATION
  • Emissaries sent out to West to find best ways to
    do things
  • Britain navy
  • U.S. factories and technology, education
  • Germany government

5
RAPID MODERNIZATION
6
Looking for influence in China
7
SINO-JAPANESE WAR - 1895
  • Japan decisively defeats China gains concessions
    in Manchuria

8
RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR - 1905
  • Japan and Russia in conflict over influence in
    Korea and Manchuria. Japan claims Korea.

9
RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR
  • Japan launches a surprise attack on a Russian
    concession in Manchuria

10
Battle of Tsushima Strait
  • Japanese fleet destroys Russian Pacific fleet in
    two hours.

11
JAPAN AND KOREA TAIWAN
  • Japan makes Korea and Taiwan full colonies of its
    empire.

12
TREATY OF PORTSMOUTH
  • US President Theodore Roosevelt mediates.

13
1920s RISE OF MILITARISM
  • Japan feels cheated after World War I.
  • New emperor Hirohito
  • Rise of fanatic nationalists and military
    societies

14
EMPEROR HIROHITO
  • Fanatical loyalty to emperor

15
AGGRESSION STEP 1 MANCHURIA 1931
16
STEP 2 INVASION OF CHINA 1937
  • Japan invades China begins conquest
  • Greatly angers US.
  • First step toward World War II in Asia.

17
JAPANESE ATROCITIES
  • RAPE OF NANJING

18
GREATER EAST ASIA CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE
19
JAPAN AS AN AXIS POWER
  • Joins Germany and Italy in 1938

20
JAPANESE ATROCITIES UNIT 731
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UNIT 731
  • Cruel and barbaric medical experiments on Chinese
    prisoners and peasants
  • Developed germ warfare weapons
  • Doctors never punished

23
LEADERS TOJO and YAMAMOTO
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WHY THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR?
25
JAPANESE VICTORIES - 1942
  • Surprise attack worked against Russia in 1905.
  • Japan needed to neutralize American fleet in
    order to take over Southeast Asia with its
    resources.
  • Philippines, Indochina, Indonesia, Malaya all
    fall.
  • Singapore is worst defeat ever suffered by
    British Army. 150,000 prisoners taken by
    Japanese.

26
TURNING POINT BATTLE OF MIDWAY
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AMERICAN BOMBING
  • All but four major Japanese cities bombed, incl.
    Tokyo. Many are fire-bombed, many civilians
    killed.
  • Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki finally
    forces unconditional surrender of Japan
  • Reluctance to surrender unconditionally for fear
    of losing emperor, also loyalty and honor.

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EFFECT ON JAPANS PSYHOLOGY
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