Review: German Path to war

1. Sent troops to Rhineland 1936

2. Rome-Berlin Axis 1936
3. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis 1936
4. Annexation of Austria 1938
5. Hitler took the Sudetenland 1938
6. Took over Moravia and Bohemia 1939
7. Invaded Poland- WAR Sept. 1939


APPEASEMENT
Japans Path to War
1931-1940
Background Information
Led by an emperor
Government modeled on Germany
Westernization
Industrialization
Transformed military on European model
Defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese
War (1905)
Imperial power in the East
Japan in the 1930s
Great Depression devastated Japan
(trade)
Military leaders seize power
Censorship
Arrested critics
Secret police
No influence from the west




Japan is
Poor
Crowded
Lacking in natural resources
Militaristic
Led by Emperor Hirohito r.1926-
1989
Military: Hideki Tojo
Prime Minister
1941-1944
Japan wants to rid Asia
of the A B C D Countries
America
Britain
China
Dutch
Japans Goal= Create
an empire in Asia
31 Japan Attacks Manchuria
When the League of
Nations protests, Japan
withdraws from the
League.

36 Japan Attacks China
Leader of Nationalist China
Chiang Kai-Sheks
Nationalists join
forces with
Communists to fight
Japan
The Japanese commit severe war atrocities on the
Chinese population, especially in the capital, Nanking.
The Rape of Nanking
Japanese soldiers use Chinese as bayonet
practice

Decapitation contests are held
Chinese burned alive
Over 20,000 Chinese women raped, then
mutilated
Bayonet
Practice
Sword Practice
Over 20,000 women raped
Their bodies were mutilated
Some were buried alive
Fathers forced to rape daughters
1940- Japan invades Indo-China
Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

July 1940 -As a reaction the
US embargos (restricts trade)
on oil and scrap metal to
Japan.
Japan decides what to do
next