Japanese expansion

Question 1

what effect did modernization have on Japan?

Answer 1

placed great stress on Japanese society especially the economy and many Japanese people would turn to the military to control the state’s economy, government, and all policies.

Question 2

Why did Japan reopen their borders after 200 years due to Matthew Perry?

Answer 2

because they saw the impact the opiam war had on china because they weren’t able to connect with the western culture and decided that they didn’t want the same thing to happen to them so they opened their borders to US trade.

Question 3

why did Japan have some territorial gains?

Answer 3

because of nationalism, making them think that they deserved more land.

Question 4

what is shintoism?

Answer 4

the idea that the rising sun goddess land had blessed their land.

Question 5

what affect did Shintoism have on japan

Answer 5

Further propelled nationalsim and lead to the rise of some pro-nationalist groups and imperialist groups as they wanted to spread japan.

Question 6

when and what was the first sino-japanese war?

Answer 6

between japan and china from 1994-95, and resulted in the gain of Japanese land, japan thought they had done so fairly.

Question 7

what was the westerns powers response to Japan winning the first sino-japanese war?

Answer 7

they formed the triple intervention, was by Russia Germany and France. They wanted them to return the land to china and this lead to resentment from japan as they thought they deserved the land.

Question 8

what effect did the tripple intervention have on the mindset of japan?

Answer 8

this reenforced the idea that they needed a strong military in order to represent themselves and start on top.

Question 9

what effect did the tripple intervention have on the development of japan?

Answer 9

there was intense industrialisation because they wanted to keep up with the wester powers who they now felt like they were directly competing with.

Question 10

what was the anglo-japanese alliance?

Answer 10

it was the first allliance between a western and non western power and it was to prevent the spread of russia into eastern Asia

Question 11

what was the russia japanese war?

Answer 11

in 1904-05 due to competing businesses, Japan won but settles for money and lost some territory.

Question 12

what effect did WW1 have on Japan?

Answer 12

they were able to gain back some of the land they lost due to the triple intervention.

Question 13

what were the 21 demands?

Answer 13

they were a secret ultimaden from japan to china. it was a list of demands that would give more control for japan over china. because they felt like they owned china.

Question 14

what happened to the 21 demands?

Answer 14

they were changed to 13 and China accepted them

Question 15

what did japan ask the league of nations for?

Answer 15

a racial equality caluse becasue they felt as an asian
country they felt that they might have been discriminated against because they were an asian country. this was denied.

Question 16

What created some economic stability in Japan?

Answer 16

there were supply gaps left in Asia by France Britain and Russia, Japan was able to fill these supply gaps.

Question 17

what effect did the great depression have on Japan?

Answer 17

It damaged japans faith as they relied heavily on the international economy because they were filling gaps in Asia, they were very concerned about the US as a trade partner. This created distrust.

Question 18

how did the distrust between Japan and the US damage Japans economy?

Answer 18

The US raised tariffs damaging the Japanes expanison and economy.

Question 19

what were the issues in china?

Answer 19

there was instability in the govenrment and the 21 points lead to dissenment towards the Japanese and created instability leaving from for change.

Question 20

what led to the second Sino-Japanese war?

Answer 20

China has issues because they couldn’t unify themselves leaving room for Japan to slip into, this created renewed political instability in china and liberal democracy in japan

Question 21

why did Japan want to take over Manchuria?

Answer 21

because there was coal, iron and very cheap labour. And japan was really focused on their economy to expand and stabilise themselves

Question 22

what was the Mukden incident?

Answer 22

It was an incident staged by the Japanese military, to serve as their reason to take over Manchuria. they accused Chinese men of sabotaging railroads between China and Japan.

Question 23

what did the League of Nations say about the invasion of Manchuria?

Answer 23

they called for a cease-fire which only China followed, and later in an investigation they found Japan to be the aggressor and should have to pay sanctions and leave, however, japan just left the league of Nations instead.

Question 24

what was strike south?

Answer 24

the expanison of japan into south east aisa advocating for defence and modernism, they wanted to consolidate china before carrying this out.

Question 25

what was strike north?

Answer 25

It was much more aggressive using Shintoism, totalitarian militaristic reorganization, they saw communism as the enemy and wanted to take over any area with communism including the USSR

Question 26

what was the Nanjing massacre?

Answer 26

A Japanese war crime in China where they raped and murdered 20,000 women in the first month. this was due to racial superiority.

Question 27

Why was Japan not able to keep stability within China and Japan very well?

Answer 27

because they had their military troops spread too thin and couldn’t keep control over both countries

Question 28

what was the tripartite pact?

Answer 28

Japan, Italy and Germany, sign the Tripartite Pact, creating an alliance between the three countries, Sept. 1940

Question 29

what was the lito commission?

Answer 29

it was to investigate and report on Japan in Manchuria, set up by the league of nations