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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvhwtv6Vr98

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1920s Japan
Military Leader
Social Changes
Manchurian Incident
Second Sino Japanese War
Pearl Harbor

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• End of WWI
• Economic Challenges
- industrialization
- demand for natural resources
-  international tariffs
- need for expansion

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Wartime leader of Japan’s government, General Tôjô Hideki (1884-1948)

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• Feudal agriculture to urban industrial
• universal education
• Western influence
-politics:  Japan's democratic political system continues to evolve under the Meiji  constitution, but then is unable to meet the dual challenges of economic  depression and the political power of the Japanese military leaders in the 1920s and 1930s.
- questioning traditional Japanese beliefs

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• Allowed Japan to invade China without looking overly aggressive to the rest of the world
•Japan blew up a railroad in Manchuria, and blamed it on the Manchurian people to give them a reason to go stop it. (Manchurians were being violent)
• Eventually led to Japan occupying China during 1931

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• Began with invasion of China by Japan
• China attacks Japan in Shanghai (Battle of Shanghai)
• Nanjing Massacre: Japanese forces tortured and killed over 300,000 Chinese and raped tens of thousands of women.

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• December 7th, 1941, Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii
• Surprise military attack on the U.S. by an aircraft of the Imperial Japan Navy
• More than 2,400 people were killed
• U.S. Congress declared war on Japan that morning

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What did the Manchurian Incident allow Japan to accomplish?
What was the Nanjing Massacre?