Japan’s Resources
This was the main reason Japan relied on foreign trade.
What is Japan’s lack of natural resources?
This European country controlled Malaysia and its rubber production.
What is Great Britain?
The 1924 U.S. law that angered Japan by banning Japanese immigration.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
The League of Nations was created after which major event?
What is World War I?
This was Japan’s slogan for its Asian empire.
What is the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?
Japan imported rubber, oil, and other raw materials from this region.
What is Southeast Asia?
The United States had control of this island nation in the Pacific.
What are the Philippines?
This U.S. state had one of the largest Japanese populations in the 1920s.
What is California?
Japan joined the League hoping to be recognized as what?
What is an equal global power?
The “co-prosperity” part of the name was misleading because Japan did what?
What is exploited rather than liberated Asian nations?
Two key materials Japan needed for industrial growth.
What are oil and rubber?
The Dutch colonized this resource-rich country in Asia.
What is Indonesia?
Japan’s exclusion from Western societies reinforced this idea.
What is racial superiority or white supremacy?
Japan proposed this clause to the League, which was rejected by Western powers.
What is the racial equality clause?
The Sphere was Japan’s way of promoting independence from what powers?
What are Western colonial powers?
The country that Japan depended on most for trade before expansion.
What is the United States?
Western colonization limited Japan’s access to what?
What are natural resources and trade markets?
How did Japan interpret Western racial policies?
What is as a sign of disrespect and inequality?
The rejection of this proposal made Japan feel what toward the West?
What is humiliated and disrespected?
This decade marked Japan’s aggressive push to control Asian territories.
What are the 1930s?
This dependence on trade led Japan to pursue what strategy in the 1930s?
What is territorial expansion and self-sufficiency through conquest?
Japan viewed itself as equal to the West but was treated as what?
What is an inferior or second-class nation?
These racist attitudes contributed to Japan’s growing interest in what ideology?
What is nationalism and militarism?
The League’s treatment of Japan helped encourage what later behavior?
What is Japan’s withdrawal and turn toward aggressive expansion?
The Co-Prosperity Sphere reflected Japan’s desire for what?
What is self-sufficiency and dominance in Asia?