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E. Japan
1. When entered into the war against U.S., Japan already had an economy in high
gear after four years of war with China
i.
Calls for sacrifice reached a high point of the final years of war
ii.
Young Japanese were encouraged to volunteer to serve as pilots in
suicide missions against U.S. fighting ships at sea
a. Pilots known as kamikaze, or divine wind
iii.
Tojo, prime minister from 1941-1944, opposed female employment
a. Said the weakening of the family system would be the
weakening of the nation. We are able to do our duties only
because we have wives and mothers at home.