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Japan

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  • westernized and industrialized (imperialised too)
  • dependent on foreign help for resources
  • island, archipelago
  • 73% of scrap iron from US, 60% of machines and tools from US, 50% of copper from US
  • wanted to be economically dependent
  • when they invaded French Indo-China, US demands removal from Indo-China and China.
  • embargo from US, resisted
  • December 7, 1941, bombed Pearl Harbor (188 airplanes destroyed
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1930s

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  • in 1930s Japan becomes materialistic
  • seize a chunk of china
  • set sights on french, British and dutch and American colonies and southeast china, Burma, Indonesia, indo-china
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December 8, 1941

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  • US declares war on Japan
  • Italians and Germans also declare war on US
  • Britain declares war on Japan
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After Pearl Harbor

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  • after pearl harbor, there was big scare in US (Japanese Americans were feared)
  • Japanese Americans accused as traitors
  • Japanese Americans placed in internment camps until war was over
  • people lost homes and other things
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Hideki Tojo

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  • prime minister during war
  • very popular because of dominant navy
  • as tide of war began to turn in pacific, popularity began fading
  • after Japan surrendered, he was arrested for war crimes, sentenced to death, and hung in 1948
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WWII

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  • December 1941-May 1942: Japan successfully attacking US naval bases, winning battles
    • landed in Philippines
    • 2,000 soldiers and nurses escaped (April, 1942) of the bataan peninsula; survived by living in rock tunnels
    • US troops surrendered (May 1942)
    • 76,000 prisoners of war
    • groups of 500-1,000 people were forced to march to a rail road 60 miles away
    • bataan death march
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1929

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  • Geneva convention

- prisoners of war should be treated humanely and protected against violence

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May 1942

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  • one of the first major battles
  • US broke Japanese military code
  • planned attack on Australia, US brought a fleet northeast of Australia
  • five day battle
  • battle was basically a draw, but kept Japan from invading Australia
  • Japan ships out of fuel, Australia saved
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June 1942

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  • battle of midway
  • island in the middle of pacific, used to refuel
  • decisive victor for Americans
  • 4 out of 5 Japanese air craft carriers and heavy cruisers were sunk
  • Japanese ship and air building programs couldn’t replace what they needed fast enough; however, US was able to do this at a faster rate
  • US came up with island hopping (general Macarthur and Admiral Nimitz)
  • leapfrogging from island to island on their way to Japan, get some, bypass others (others were blockaded)
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August 1942

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  • battle of guadalcanal first successful use of island hopping
  • Japanese come up with plan of suicide bombers, kamikaze
  • result was higher death tolls, more blood
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end of war

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  • by end of 1944, US victory over Japan seemed inevitable
  • Macarthur and troops regain Philippines
  • early 1945, US fought Japan at two most bloody battles, Okanawa and Iwo Jima
  • Japan refused to surrender, they were gonna fight to the death
  • president Truman used ultimatum, surrender or use of new weapon, atomic bomb (wanted to avoid enourmous loss of life)
  • Japan didn’t surrender
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August 6, 1945

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  • first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
  • no response from Japan
  • second dropped on Nagasaki (August 9, 1945)
  • 100,000 Japanese died
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August 14th, 1945

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  • Japan surrdner
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September 2, 1945

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  • VJ-Day
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after war

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  • Japan is occupied by US forces
  • 1945-1952 occupation (General Macarthur)
  • democratic constitution imposed by US
  • land, sea, and air forces all disarmed
  • during occupation, US sent 2 billion dollars in financial aid
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japan’s suicide bombers were called?

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  • Kamikaze pilots
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the battle of midway turned out to be an American victory because of ______ who discovered Japan’s plans of attack

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  • code breakers
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the two bloodiest battles of WWII in the Pacific were _____________

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  • Okinawa & Iwo Jima
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the US threatened to _______ products from Japan if they would not withdraw from Indochina

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  • embargo
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the “island-Hopping” towards Japan was overseen by the Allied general __________

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  • Douglas MacArthur

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