Japanese Perspectives
Japanese honour and power were represented by this important figure, and kokutai (loyalty) was a key aspect of Japanese society.
Who is the Emperor?
This area of northeast China was seen as a resource-rich addition to Japan, and the annexation of which could help revitalise their struggling empire.
What is Manchuria?
Serving from 1933 until 1945, this man is the longest-serving President of the United States, and the only one to have served more than two terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Complete this line from Roosevelt's speech to Congress on December 8, 1941, which was delivered just before the United States declared war on Japan:
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941; a date which will live in ____."
What is "infamy"?
The Great Depression, marked by mass unemployment, the collapse of the international financial system, and widespread poverty, was caused by the Wall Street stock market crash in this year.
What is 1929?
The drop in demand for this material led to a major economic crisis in Japan, leading the country to search for alternative resources to fund their military expansion.
What is silk?
This was a staged railway explosion on September 18, 1931, that Japanese troops used as an excuse to invade and conquer Manchuria.
What is the Mukden Incident?
This ideology focuses on national foreign policy that avoids political, military, and economic entanglements with other nations, and was the main American response throughout the 1930s.
What is isolationism?
After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the United States introduced this policy, which refused to recognise any territorial changes through military force.
What is the Stimson Doctrine?
A number of countries explored more aggressive tactics to gain territory during the 1930s, including Japan, Germany, and this European state that allied with them.
What is Italy?
This 1922 treaty formalised a ratio for the naval capacity of major world powers, with Japan taking particular offense to its lower allowance than the United Kingdom and the United States.
What is the Washington Naval Treaty?
This naval base in Hawaii was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941, in an attempt to decimate the American navy and remove the biggest barrier to expansion in Southeast Asia.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The United States took a non-interventionist approach during the 1930s to focus on managing internal affairs during which economic crisis?
What is the Great Depression?
To bring World War II to an end and defeat Japan, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and this Japanese city.
What is Nagasaki?
A civil war in this country came to an end because of the increasing threat posed by Japan to its east, with the rival factions uniting.
What is China?
This ideology is an extreme form of nationalism where a country promotes its own interests, supremacy, or cultural destiny above all others, often using hostility, coercion, or violence against outsiders.
What is ultranationalism?
The attack on Pearl Harbor was planned by this Japanese commander, who hoped that the attack would increase Japan's territorial expansion and help negotiate peace.
Who is Isoroku Yamamoto?
Although it was officially neutral, the United States supplied China (and other Allied states) with food, oil, and military supplies as part of this policy, which was enacted on March 11, 1941.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
The United States enacted this law in 1940, which essentially stopped the sale of oil, machinery, and other goods to Japan in the hope that this would stop their occupation of Indochina.
What is the Export Control Act?
An increasingly powerful independence movement dominates this British dominion in the 1930s, with the more aggressive factions allying themselves with Japan.
What is India?
This political slogan conveys the divine right of the Empire of Japan to "unify the eight corners of the world," and formed the basis of the empire's ideology.
What is "hakkÅ ichiu"?
This union was created by Japan and its ally Thailand to ensure economic self-sufficiency and cooperation, as well as to oppose the influence of Western imperialism and Soviet communism, and included the occupied territories of Manchukuo, China, the Philippines, and other parts of Southeast Asia.
What is the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?
Public opinion of Japan in the United States plummeted after the violence demonstrated in this Chinese city, leading to an increase of aid and support to China.
What is Nanjing?
This road, running through the British colony that it was named for, was the main route for American supplies entering China, which was one of the main reasons Japan wanted to conquer the territory.
What is the Burma Road?
This period of severe dust storms caused major damage to prairie lands in Canada and the United States throughout the 1930s, causing mass migration, food shortages, multiple deaths and illnesses, and a severe reduction in income.
What is the Dust Bowl?