Perspectives - Historiography
Left-wing Japanese historien date the beginning of the war in the Pacific as the year.
What is 1931 - with the Manchurian Incident?
A granite bridge near Beijing with erected under the Jin dynasty, 800 years ago.
What is The Marco Polo Bridge?
Japanese soldiers captured and raped this city
What is Nanjing?
Japan signed a Neutrality Pact with these European countries in sep. 1940.
What is Germany and Italy?
On this date the US Naval base of Pearl Harbor was attacked.
What is 7 December 1941?
"Wing" of Japanese historians who holds the "militarist capitalist clique" responsible for a "15-year war"
What is the left wing?
This marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
What was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident?
12.000 of this type was murdered in Nanjing
What is civilians?
Name of the the pact of Japan, Italy and Germany aiming to defeat Western democracies and seize their colonies in Asia.
What is "The Tripartite Axis Pact"?
The economic embargo placed on Japan by the US was the result of this Japanese policy.
What was the Japanese expansion?
According to this "wing" of Japanese historians the "Great East Asia War" started this year
What is 1941 - with the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Fighting broke out between these two forces on 7 July 1937 at the Marco Polo Bridge.
What is Japanese and Chinese forces?
So many women were raped in Nanjing
What is 30.000 female rape victims?
So many % of the US mid-Pacific air and sea power was destroyed or badly damaged by the attack of Pearl Harbor.
What is 90 %?
So many Americans were killed at the attack of Pearl Harbor
What is 2300 Americans?
For the orthodox historians in the USA the Pacific War began in 1937 after an incident next to this bridge.
July 1937 Japan had taken Beijing and was in August fighting this city.
What is Shanghai?
Historical revisionists and nationalists in Japan have been accused of this perspective of Nanjing.
What is minimizing or denying the massacre?
Name of the US president who called the attact on Pearl Harbor "dastardly".
Who was President Roosevelt?
Actor behind the main character in the romance mixed with history: "Pearl Harbor" (2001).
Who is Ben Affleck?
This group os historians argues that the Japanese emperor Hirohito did not like the war, but was forced to support it in public
What is traditionalist historians?
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident happend as a consequence of the Japanese invasion of M... in 1931.
What is Manchuria?
This prince was commander of Japanese forces in the final assault on Nanjing. He was granted immunity and never tried.
Who was Prince Asaka?
The Japanese historian Michiko Hasegawa asserts that Japan only went to war because of this US restriction.
What is the oil embargo?
15 February 1942 this Asian city-state surrenders to Japan at the "greatest military defeat in British history"
What is Singapore?