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This is another example of great military intervention in World War II because they slowly overpowered Japan and caused Japan to surrender in 1946 finally ending World War II for good. This strategy of overpowering the opponent worked extremely well in Russia's favor.

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At the ending stage of the war, Russia continuously attacked Japan with their troop of 1 million soldiers slowly pushing and claiming part and part of Japan. Half of Japan's government didn't want to give up but eventually did after Russia continued to beat them in every battle and continued to claim more and more of their land. Russia started attacking Japan from the Southeast side and took over 10 small parts of Japan after 10 battles. In 1946, Japan surrendered and participated in the Potsdam Declaration to finally end World War II.

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invading other countries for minerals like oil and gold or some of the other countries could invade them for the water near Japan and the oil factories that Japan has built there to make money.

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After forming the Triple Alliance with Germany and Italy to keep the United States in check, Japan began to occupy the Pacific region in earnest. In September 1940, all of Indochina was occupied. In January 1941, the Dutch island of Sulawesi (Indonesia), an oil-producing area in Asia and rich in rubber and rice needed for war, was taken over. The United States established the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in February 1941 to keep Japan in check, which was targeting the Pacific. As of May 1941, a large-scale force of 127 ships, including 3 aircraft carriers and 9 battleships, was stationed there. And it puts stronger economic pressure on Japan. In August 1941, the export of materials needed for aircraft manufacturing to Japan was completely banned and oil exports to Japan were completely halted. As a result, it became difficult for Japan to supply oil, which was essential for operating war equipment such as aircraft and tanks. After being pressured, Japan attempted to negotiate with the United States. President Roosevelt, who was the U.S. president at the time, maintained the status quo in the Pacific with the principles of respecting the territory and sovereignty of all countries, non-interference in internal affairs, and all countries being equal. He conveyed four conditions to Japan and demanded that Japan withdraw from China and Indochina.

In the end, Japan refused negotiations and chose an all-out war with the United States. Pearl Harbor was the starting point. Japan's two goals were to destroy the Pacific Fleet and to destroy aircraft on airfields.

Pearl Harbor

In 1941, on December 7th, the air attack on Pearl Harbor began. On this day, three battleships of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor were sunk and about 18 warships were damaged. About 188 aircraft were destroyed, resulting in approximately 3,600 casualties, including soldiers and civilians. The success of this surprise attack destroyed America's air superiority and gave Japan complete control of the air superiority. However, because it did not attack oil tanks and logistics bases, and because the US aircraft carriers were operating in different seas, it failed to destroy important aircraft carriers in the naval battle. These two failures became the decisive factors that turned the tide of the war in the Pacific.

Process of invading South East

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, it began occupying other islands in the Pacific one after another.

December 8, 1941, Japan attacked Malaya and the Philippines. February 15, 1942, Singapore fell to Japan.

March 7, 1942, Japan captured Racoon.

March 8, 1942, the Dutch East Indies surrendered to Japan.

April 9, 1942, the US surrendered to Japan at Bataan.

May 6, 1942, corregidor surrended to Japan.

All these countries were occupied within 6 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Midway

After the Tokyo air raid in 1942 ended on April 18, Japan decided to attack Midway, a strategic location for the U.S. military, to completely defeat the United States (Midway Islands are islands about 2,000 km away from Hawaii). Because Midway was a strategic point in the Pacific Ocean, Japan attempted to use Midway as a correctional center for the planned occupation of Hawaii. Japan's fate in the Pacific War was decided at Midway.

June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway broke out when Japan attacked Midway. However, the United States already knew of Japan's plan. The American code-breaking team successfully decoded the Japanese military's communications(They decoded AF=Midway), and the U.S. military prepared to surprise Japan near the Midway Islands. This caught the Japanese military off guard.

American aircraft succeeded in directly hitting four Japanese aircraft carriers. Japan's damage included 4 aircraft carriers, 1 combat ship, 250 aircraft, and 3,000 soldiers. Compared to that, the United States' damage was significantly lower, including 1 York Down, 1 combat ship, 150 aircraft, and 307 soldiers.

All four of Japan's aircraft carriers were sunk. Japan's momentum was broken by the defeat at the Battle of Midway. The atmosphere of the Pacific War completely changed.

After The Batte of Midway

The United States and the Allied Forces repeated their victories after the Battle of Midway.

1943

November 1943: Allied forces and the United States won the Gilbert Islands and the Marshall Islands.

December 1943: Allied and American forces won New Guinea.

1944

June 1944: Allied forces and the United States won the Mariana Islands and Palau Islands, including the Battle of the Philippine Sea, which neutralized Japanese naval air power.

October 1944: Allied forces and the United States were victorious in the Philippines and recaptured the Philippines from Japan.

1945

February-March 1945: Allied forces and the United States won the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Eventually, the Japanese army returned to the mainland.

April-June 1945: Allied forces and the United States won the Battle of Okinawa, the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific theater.

August 1945: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Soviet Union invaded Manchuria, leading to Japan's surrender.

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Before Japan’s invasion,  tin mining was a crucial part of Malaya’s economy in the early 20th century. Tin was one of Malaya’s main exports because Malaya was one of the world's largest tin producers. In the 1930s, Malaya accounted for around 40-50% of global tin production.

Much of the tin produced in Malaya was exported, primarily to the UK, which relied on Malayan tin for its manufacturing industries. Around 90% of Malaya's tin production was exported, with the UK being the largest destination, importing around 60% of Malaya's tin exports. Tin exports were a major source of revenue and economic activity for the British colonial government in Malaya. Taxes and royalties on tin mining and exports were an important part of the colonial government's income. (They took a certain percentage of the money they got from exporting tin) Tin exports made up around 50-60% of Malaya's total export earnings in the 1930s. As a result, tin had a great influence on the economy of colonial governments and local people.

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Why rubber was significant to  local people(Malayan)

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Why rubber was significant to  local people(Malayan)

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Before Japan colonized, rubber also was important to Malaya's economy. The massive boom in the rubber trade came in the 20th century because there were two world wars(WWI, and WWII). Tires were made of rubber and thousands of military products such as airplanes, tanks, and motorized vehicles needed tires for the wars. As demand for rubber tires increased worldwide due to war, rubber prices rose sharply.

By the 1930s Malaya became the world’s largest natural rubber producer.  By 1919 Malaya’s exports of rubber exceeded that of the rest of the world combined(see chart above). ( Apart from the period under Japanese rule) Malaya’s share of the world supply of rubber did not fall below 30 percent until the late 1980s.

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On August 1, 1941, the US announced a ban on oil exports to Japan but Japan was importing oil with roughly 80% from the United States alone and Japan has no native source of oil; it could not even produce enough to meet even 10% of its needs. Without oil, the Japanese military could not fight for long and they would be unable to move after it had exhausted its six-month reserve.

Oil was a key strategic commodity, especially during a war. It was required to lubricate and fuel planes, tanks, and other combat machinery. Japan needed to get oil from somewhere else and the Dutch East Indies(Indonesia) was a spot in their eyes. It was the world's fourth-largest oil exporter, behind the U.S., Iran, and Romania. After successfully invading the Dutch East  Indies, they solved the oil problem.

The Japanese Navy was a huge consumer of oil,  approximately needing a billion barrels of heavy oil a year during WWII. Indies produced 65 million barrels of oil in 1940, which should have been more than adequate for Japan's import needs. Therefore, they could fuel heavy units of the Japanese military supplies such as planes, tanks, and aircraft carriers so they were able to move actively for their Empire.

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Japan has now become one of the countries who has moved their focus away from technologies for war and has now started improving their culture and even establish relationship with America. Now with America backing them up, Japan most likely won't get into any more big wars but if they do, the opponent would most likely be either China or Korea.

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This was successful for Japan because using their immense advantage in strength, they were able to gain a lot of resources and use those resources in their favor in battles with other big countries and even use the resources in these imperialized countries to grow their country and improve their reputation and currency which means they become stronger and richer.

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The strategy of overpowering Japan worked but it also resulted in Japan take a lot of damage and taking it years for Japan to rebuild Nagasaki and Hiroshima which means Japan would lose a lot of money which is good for America but exceptionally bad for Japan. America was able to end the war and make Japan surrender using military intervention which ended the war. This is good for America and the other countries because thanks to ending the war, they were able to minimize the damage caused by Japan which means that they will have to spend less money rebuilding their countries.

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Throughout World War 2, Japan used their strength with their advance technology, army and especially the kamikaze crew to fight and imperialize most of the countries in Asia. Japan overpowered countries like Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia. Japan was also invading islands like Guam Island and Wake Island that holds a lot of resources or is in a good spot to attack other countries from. Thanks to invading these. countries, Japan was able to become one of the most powerful countries at that time.

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After a tens of hundreds of fights in WWII, the Americans were able to create a new technology to end the war after standing out of the war until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. And in August 1945, America dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan's cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki ending the war. These 2 atomic bomb caused Japan to take a huge amount of damage and ended up surrendering to the Americans.

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NEW ORLEANS (August 10, 2010) - On August 14, 1945 the world learned that Japan had surrendered, effectively ending World War II, a war that Americans thought would go on indefinitely. No newsflash in modern history has ever been greeted with such overwhelming celebration. The iconic images of happy throngs holding up the newspapers that would go into countless scrapbooks and frames, the impromptu parades, hands in the air forming a "V" for victory, and the iconic images from Times-Square - including one very famous kiss between a nurse and a sailor. The National World War II Museum in New Orleans plans to recreate some of those iconic moments on August 14, 2010 with a special V-J Day commemoration, V-J standing for Victory in Japan. Activities will consist of a commemoration ceremony, a rousing and patriotic performance by the Museum's Victory Belles, an Andrew's Sisters-style singing group, and a Times Square kissing contest where couples can recreate one of the most definitive images of VJ Day.
Those who can't make it to New Orleans can visit the Museum's can visit the Museum's VJ Day gallery on Flickr.com to see other famous V-J Day photos. Facebook fans can also post their own pictures at www.facebook.com/wwiimuseum.
America had been determined to stay out of World War II until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 ignited the country with patriotism and the ideals that would characterize the war era. However, the road to victory was a long one and many Americans doubted the war would ever end. Spirits were buoyed by the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, now known as V-E Day for Victory in Europe. But as eyes shifted toward an attack on the Japanese mainland, the war seemed to be far from over. It was the deployment of a new and terrible weapon, the atomic bomb, which forced the Japanese into a surrender that they had vowed never to accept.
Harry Truman would go on to officially name September 2, 1945, V-J Day, the day the Japanese signed the official surrender aboard the USS Missouri. But August 14 would continue to be celebrated around the world as the day the news spread throughout the world that war had finally come to an end. The day is still commemorated in Japan, Korea, Australia and other nations to varying degrees but has faded for the most part from the American calendar.
"You would be hard pressed to find a person who lived through that time that doesn't remember where they were," says The National World War II Museum President and CEO, Dr. Gordon "Nick" Mueller. "The celebration spread through towns and cities of all sizes. But it was also a bittersweet day, a reminder of the 418, 500 Americans who wouldn't be coming home. The National World War II Museum is dedicated to sharing their stories so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired by what they learn."
Though World War II was the most pivotal event of the 20th century, the memory of the valor and sacrifice of America's Greatest Generation grows harder to summon as the men and women who fought its battles both around the globe and on the Home Front are passing away. Veterans are dying at the rate of 800 a day, and vanishing with them: the personal stories of epic battles and deeds of sacrifice and heroism that museums, historians and future generations must keep alive.
Recognizing the importance of saving these stories for posterity, The National World War II Museum is committed to preserving veterans' histories. Museum historians have recorded more than 3,000 personal accounts from every branch of service and theater - including more than 1,000 video accounts recorded in high definition. These powerful interviews include men and women of all ethnic backgrounds, and even some who fought for the Axis. The collection began with the work of author, historian and Museum founder, Stephen E. Ambrose.
Such stories are an invaluable source for historians, researchers, filmmakers and future generations and they now serve as a cornerstone for current and future exhibitions. The Museum is currently in the midst of a $300 million expansion that will quadruple the size of the campus.
In November 2009, thousands attended the grand opening of three new venues. The Solomon Victory Theater features the exclusive presentation Beyond All Boundaries, a 4-D, immersive experience created by The Hettema Group with Tom Hanks as Executive Producer. The Stage Door Canteen is a lively entertainment venue recalling the days when a weary soldier could find food and fellowship at remarkable venues where A-list entertainers boosted morale. The American Sector - a Chef John Besh restaurant, draws delicious inspiration from the foods that characterized mid-century America and became staples of our modern cuisine.
Future expansion plans include the John E. Kushner Restoration Pavilion (Summer 2011), United States Freedom Pavilion: Land, Sea & Air (Spring 2012) and the Liberation Pavilion as well as a hotel and conference center.
The National World War II Museum tells the story of the American Experience in the war that changed the world - why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today. Dedicated in 2000 as The National D-Day Museum and now designated by Congress as America's National World War II Museum, it celebrates the American Spirit, the teamwork, optimism, courage and sacrifice of the men and women who fought on the battlefront and the Home Front. For more information, call 877-813-3329 or 504-527-6012 or visit www.nationalww2museum.org. Follow us on Twitter at WWIImuseum or visit our Facebook fan page.

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On August 14, 1945 the world learned that Japan had surrendered, effectively ending World War II, a war that Americans thought would go on indefinitely. No newsflash in modern history has ever been greeted with such overwhelming celebration.

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Why were Rubber and Tin significant to Japan

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Rubber and tin were crucial to Japan. Japan was invading and fighting lots of countries such as the US, Singapore, and Indonesia. To do war, they needed military supplies such as tanks, cars, and airplanes. To provide them, they needed rubber to make tires. In addition, rubbers used to be made in military gas masks, and bombers.

They also needed food supplies not just military because Japan's navies spread out all over southern Asia, and they needed food to fight. Tin-coated steel cans fed most military personnel overseas because food acids corrode most metals, but not tin. Tin cans were the most durable and safe containers for shipping food to where it was needed. Tin cans were the most durable and safe containers for shipping food over long seas.

Medical supplies also relied on tin packaging. Tin was used as a container for sulfa ointment and blood plasma, and it was the main component of individual morphine hypodermic syringes.

The rubber and tin wildly were significant to Japan due to the reasons above.

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Malaya had lots of rich natural resources.  In 1939, Malaya was the resource of 40% of the world's rubber and 60% of the world's tin.

Tin

Tin is a relatively scarce element in the earth's crust compared to many other metals (To access tin, Japan invaded).

It is an essential component in tin can production. Tin's corrosion resistance makes it ideal for coating steel to make tin cans for food, beverages, and other products. Tin-plated steel cans revolutionized food packaging. Being able to prevent rusting and extend shelf life was extremely important to certain countries that were at war in the 20th century.

Rubber

Rubber is highly elastic, meaning it can be stretched and then return to its original shape. This makes it useful for a wide variety of applications, such as tires, hoses, and gaskets.

During the 20th century, rubber was an incredibly important and strategic natural resource, with widespread industrial and military applications.

In the early 20th century, the rise of the automobile industry and the need for rubber tires was a major driver of rubber demand. The commercial success of the Ford Model T and other mass-produced vehicles created a huge appetite for rubber to manufacture tires.

Rubber also became critical for military use during the World Wars. Rubber was needed for the production of tires, hoses, gaskets, and other equipment for tanks, trucks, and aircraft. This led to severe rubber shortages, especially after Japan occupied rubber-producing regions in Southeast Asia during World War II.

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Oil has a variety of importance such as transportation fuel and power generation which these two alone show how important oil was in the 20th century, when there were two world wars. Oil has a high energy density, meaning that a relatively small volume of oil can store a large amount of energy. Therefore, oil was effective in charging large military supplies such as tanks, airplanes, and aircraft carriers.

Also, Oil is a fossil fuel that can be refined into a variety of valuable fuels, such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and heating oil. These oil-derived fuels are the primary energy sources for transportation, industry, and power generation worldwide. Oil is a crucial fuel for industrial processes, providing heat and power for manufacturing, mining, and other industrial activities.

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A resource war is a type of war caused by conflict over resources. In a resource war, there is typically a nation or group that controls the resource and an aggressor that wishes to seize control over said resource. This power dynamic between nations has been a significant underlying factor in conflicts since the late 19th century. Following the rise of industrialization, the amount of raw materials an industrialized nation uses to sustain its activities is heightened.

Illustration of the Chincha Islands of Peru, circa 1859

One of the most prolific examples of resource war in history is the conflict over Chincha Island guano in the late 19th century. The Chincha Islands of Peru are situated off of the southern coast of Peru, where many seabirds were known to roost and prey on fish brought there by the currents of the Pacific Ocean. The guano of these seabirds is incredibly dense in nutrients and became a sought-after resource as a fertilizer. Soil that was nutrient rich allowed for higher crop yields, which subsequently translated to better sustenance of the population and overall improved economic performance. Known colloquially as "white gold", guano from the Chincha Islands began to catch the interest of Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other industrial powers at the time.

The international interest for that resource resulting in a number of conflicts including the Chincha Islands War between Spain and Peru and the War of the Pacific between Chile, Bolivia, and Peru. Although the primary inciting force of the conflict originated over possession of the nutrient-rich guano, Spain also attempted to exercise prior colonial control over Peru during its aggressions during this conflict. The Chincha Islands guano became a resource of imperialism with foreign nations inciting conflict and establishing dominion over it. In 1856, United States President Franklin Pierce passed the Guano Islands Act with the exclusive purpose of addressing American scarcity over guano. Under the Guano Islands Act, any piece of uninhabited land that harbors a guano deposit could be claimed as a territory of the United States to extract the resource. The legislation acted as a workaround for the United States to access Peruvian seabird guano since direct trade was not an option because of a treaty between Peru and the United Kingdom.

Under the geopolitical lens for interpreting resource wars, the main rationale behind resource conflict is strategic. It assumes that control over the resource provides a particular advantage to that nation and interprets hostile attempts to take over the resource as a means to acquire that advantage for themselves. Resources that are deemed strategic shift over time and pertain to what is required for economic expansion or success at the time. Examples of this include timber during the seventeenth century for naval development or oil during the twentieth century onward for enabling military technology and transportation.

Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon at an NDP convention in British Columbia, circa 2007

Also known as the environmental scarcity or political economy, the environmental security perspective interprets resource conflict as a response to resource scarcity. A notable proponent of the environmental security perspective is Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, a Canadian political scientist and professor at the University of Waterloo. The work of Homer-Dixon focuses on two different phenomena regarding the effect of resources on violent conflict: resource scarcity and resource abundance. Under the environmental security perspective, resource scarcity perpetuates conflict by inciting pressures on a society that is dealing with resource deprivation. According to Homer-Dixon, populations struggling with resource scarcity are also impacted by overpopulation and inequitable resource allocation. Overpopulation and inequitable resource allocation can make resource scarcity even more pronounced, creating a cyclical instability in the society.

Conversely, countries with natural resource abundance are impacted in a different way. Countries that are wealthy in resources have been shown to have disproportionate economic growth, less democracy, and overall insufficient development outcomes. This permeates from an overdependence on their resource from an economic standpoint, where authoritarian traits may begin to take effect. This creates pressure on the citizens as a whole due to undermined governance of the nation and volatile economic state if the resource fluctuates heavily in price. This phenomenon is known as the resource curse.

Conflict resources are natural resources extracted in a conflict zone and sold to perpetuate the fighting. There is both statistical and anecdotal evidence that the presence of precious commodities can prolong conflicts (a " resource curse"). An unfortunate irony is that many countries rich in minerals are impoverished in terms of their capacity for governance. Conflict, corruption and bribery may be seen as the typical costs of doing business. The extraction and sale of blood diamonds, also known as "conflict diamonds", is a better-known phenomenon which occurs under virtually identical conditions. Petroleum can also be a conflict resource. Other commodities are also involved in financing conflict.

The concept of "conflict resource", or "conflict commodity" emerged in the late 1990s, initially in relation to the " blood diamonds" that were financing rebellions in Angola and Sierra Leone. Then "conflict timber" financed hostilities in Cambodia and Liberia.

The concept was first officially discussed by the UN General Assembly in the context of 'conflict diamonds': The UN Security Council has since referred to conflict resources in several resolutions, particularly resolutions 1533 and I698.97.

Since 1996 the Bonn International Center for Conversion has tracked resource governance and conflict intensity by country. Aside from fossil fuels, metals, diamonds, and timber it tracks the governance of other primary goods that might fund conflicts, including: poppy seeds and talc (Afghanistan), rubber (Côte d'Ivoire), cotton (Zambia), and cocoa (Indonesia).

Several countries and organizations, including the United States, European Union, and OECD have designated tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold connected to conflict in the DRC as conflict minerals and legally require companies to report trade or use of conflict minerals as a way to reduce incentives for armed groups to extract and fight over the minerals.

In the 2020s, the concept of conflict minerals was extended to those mined to support conflicts in parts of the world other than where the mining takes place. The Wagner Group has been granted mining rights in the Central African Republic in return for securing the continuity of the government. This "blood gold" is then sold to support Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Wagner also has gold-related operations in Mali and Sudan.

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A resource war is a type of war caused by conflict over resources. In a resource war, there is typically a nation or group that controls the resource and an aggressor that wishes to seize control over said resource. This power dynamic between nations has been a significant underlying factor in conflicts since the late 19th century.