Powerpoint presentation for the geography class year 11 about Japan: Drift to War.

1. Drift To War By Ivana

2. Japan in the League of Nations World War I Expand empire, not trade. Joined Allies  defeat Germany. Served material needs. Occupied German territories. Seized Shantung (Shandong) & western Pacific islands. Forced China to sign a treaty “Twenty-One Demands” – January 1915. Seized Manchuria in 1931. Had war against China in 1937.

3. Japan in The League of Nations (Post-WWI) Proposed ‘editing’ the“racial equality clause”  Rejected by the US, Britain & Australia. Arrogance & racial discrimination. Great Britain cut off the 20-year alliance with Japan. Japan was ‘used’ to collect European empire. Claims on China. Aggression. Clash with Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points. Lack of respect towards Japan.

4. Foreign Problems Versailles  Japan given German rights in Shandong & Germany’s Pacific Islands. Wanted to imitate Britain’s acts in India in China. 1937  war against China. Bombed Shanghai for Japanese protection. 1933: Japan out of The League of Nations!

5. Foreign Problems “Stop claiming China!” Exclusion Act: Forbidden to immigrate to the USA. USA stopped trading with Japan. Expansion to the south Blocked by the US  Pearl Harbor, American bases in Luzon (Philippines).

6. Domestic Problems Population overgrowth. Immigration cut off  problem. Manufacturing & trade More work & more trade. Urbanization. Rural life was hard. Banking crisis 1927. Depression 1929-1930 destroyed export industry.

7. FRUSTRATION!!!!

8. Abandon democracy. Militarism. Most politicians were in the military. Removed non-military politicians. Military in control of thegovernment. Western influences = limited. Japanese values (discipline, courage, obidience) =restored.

9. Stronger military + hopelessness= WAR

10. Resources “Empire And Imperial Democracy, 1918-1932”, About Japan,http://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/content.cfm/empire_and_imperial_democracy (Accessed 28 August 2010) “World War II in Japan”, World War II History Info, http://www.worldwariihistory.info/in/Japan.html (Accessed 28 August 2010) “Militarism and WW2”, Japan-Guide,http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2129.html (Accessed 28 August 2010) Buchanan, Patrick J. (2010) “Why Did Japan Attack Us?”, The American Cause, http://www.theamericancause.org/patwhydidjapan.htm (Accessed 28 August 2010) “World War I”,Country Studies, http://countrystudies.us/japan/29.htm (Accessed 28 August 2010) “Japan and the World War I Era”, United States HISTORY, http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1110.html (Accessed 28 August 2010) “Unit 3 Chapter 17: Modern Japan”, Global Insights, page 272-273.