Most people who have siblings have probably been falsely blamed for something. Often times, someone will do absolutely nothing, but will be blamed for someone else’s actions. For example, once someone spilled a red drink all over our white couch. When my parents were attempting to figure out who did it, my brothers and I all denied it. Eventually, I was blamed for it, even though I had done nothing. On September 19, 1931, the Kwantung army of Japan planted a bomb on their train in Southern Manchuria, causing no damage to any passengers or the train. Japan placed the blame of the incident on China and used this as a pretext to invade. This infamous event was known as the “Mukden Incident” and it lead to Japan’s successful invasion into China. …show more content…
From a basic perspective, Japan’s invasion seems aggressive and unprecedented. The bomb was not planted by China, China was seemingly was not acting hostile towards Japan, and no previous conflicts would have been a cause. What the rest of the world saw was only the atrocities committed by Japan through the news reports of the event (Trueman). The way the invasion was shown portrayed Japan as an extreme aggressor. The media only showed the deaths of Chinese people, making the populations think poorly of Japan. This type of reporting was unfair. China might have acted innocent preceding this event, however they were far from blameless. Finally, Japan was in dire need for industrial and geographical …show more content…
The “Twenty-One Demands” was an ultimatum given to China by Japan after World War I. China would either accept Japan’s requests or Japan would declare war. One of Japan’s demands was the right to the territory for any of their uses for the next 99 years (Duffy). China was in no position to fight Japan, so they accepted Japan’s terms. In 1931, Reforms were being made in China and an important vote was being passed around to separate regions. Manchuria’s Zhang Xueliang was one of the chosen people who voted. He casted his vote with the Nationalists, angering the Japanese and violating the “Twenty-One Demands” (Manchuria). Also before the invasion, China had been producing anti-Japanese propaganda, making the Chinese promote a anti-Japanese state of mind in Manchuria (Lytton Report). China’s direct violation of Japanese rights and their insults towards them justified Japan’s
The Japanese government believed that the only way to solve its economic and demographic problems was to expand into its neighbor’s territory and take over its import market, mostly pointed at China. To put an end on that the United States put economic sanctions and trade embargoes. We believed that if we cut off their resources and their source of federal income than they would have no choice but to pull back and surrender. But the
The war itself was filled with many battles, deaths, and decisions. Although the state of Japan in 1945 was a defeated nation, they refused to surrender, which was a key reason why Truman dropped the Atomic bombs. There are many important events and reasons as to why President Truman decided to drop the Atomic bombs on Japan. Japan's actions from 1852 to 1945 were stimulated by an extensive aspiration to elude the providence of 19th-century China and also to overtake it as a great power. When Japanese soldiers stormed into Manchuria in 1931, Japan commenced the first in the succession of annexations and conquest throughout the 1930’s that positioned the phase of the war.
...ce of ordinary people, fear of retribution from the Japanese underground they still believed to be in existence… (Yamamoto p. 190).” Even after the war, the Chinese were so traumatized by the vile actions that they were still afraid that the Japanese army would return to treat as livestock once more.
Stetson Conn (1990) wrote “For several decades the Japanese population had been the target of hostility and restrictive action.” It was easy for the government to take advantage of the Japanese-Americans because they were already the target of aggression. Since the Japanese population was already in such a low position in society, taking advantage of their circumstances was easy for the government. The Japanese found themselves having to defend their presence in a country that was supposed to be accepting; this also happened to the Chinese before the Japanese. (Terry, 2012)
Already earlier, Japan followed the example of Western nations and forced China into unequal economical and political treaties. Furthermore, Japan's influence over Manchuria had been steadily growing since the end of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. When the Chinese Nationalists began to seriously challenge Japan's position in Manchuria in 1931, the Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchuria) occupied Manchuria. In the following year, "Manchukuo" was declared an independent state, controlled by the Kwantung Army through a puppet government. In the same year, the Japanese air force bombarded Shanghai in order to protect Japanese residents from anti Japanese movements.
...e atomic bomb on Japan was extremely controversial it ultimately ended in America’s favor when Japan surrendered. According to Karl Compton, “it was not one atomic bomb, or two, which brought the surrender; it was the experience of what an atomic bomb will actually do to a community, plus the dread of many more, that was effective.” Hiroshima and Nagasaki will always serve as a reminder of the tremendous effects powerful weapons can have on a country. America consciously decided to seize Japanese lives in order to save American lives. The attack effected Japan in a massive amount of negative ways but the outcome of the atomic bomb did create positive effects for America. The devastation generated by the atomic bomb will never be forgotten by citizens worldwide. “The atomic bomb was more than a weapon of terrible destruction; it was a psychological weapon.” (Stimson)
middle of paper ... ... In conclusion, Japan tried to isolate themselves, and China tried to compete with them, using their land, and excess population. Documents one through ten were all about China, and documents eleven through sixteen were about Japan. Documents one, two, three, and seven talked about whether China was prepared for the European countries, and documents five, six, and nine talked about whether or not China compared to the European countries.
At this time, Japan was in the Far East, and Asia was in turmoil. Imperial Japan invaded China and various other territories in 1937, which made them a real strong ally for Nazi Germany.... ... middle of paper ... ...
In the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895, China at the time confronted impending risk of being parceled and colonized by colonialist powers...
When 1937 arrived, Japanese soldiers raided China’s capital of Nanking and began mass murdering citizens. The sole leader of the Japanese Imperial Army was non-existent. There were many people in power, such as generals, who allowed these behaviors to occur. Baron Koki Hirota, foreign minister at the time, proceeded to do nothing while being well aware of the Japanese’s persecution of the Chinese. These unsympathetic murders of those who were thought to be Chinese soldiers as well as women, children and the elderly.
One of, if not the most influential part, of allowing the bombs to drop is because of the mentality of the Japanese military and the pull they had in politics. As Maddox stated, “[t]he army, not the Foreign Office controlled the situation” (Maddox, pg. 286). Although Japan had an influential leader in regards to their emperor, the military wanted to and would have engag...
... going to have revenge against the Japanese. However, China was too busy forgiving Japan and forming a treaty which never became signed professionally. No apology was made from Japan (The Rape).
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The Manchurian incident was a turning point in Japanese history in which it abandoned its somewhat general policy of cooperation and peace and instead chose to pursue their personal interests in Asia (S,191). The Japanese interest in China was evident even before its invasion in 1931. In both the Sino Japanese war from 1894 to 1905 as well as the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905 Japan secured specific locations in Manchuria and other areas in China (U,351). Overall, the consensus for the extensive needs of the empire ultimately drove its policy making until the end of World War 2. To take control of what they believed to be the most mineral rich section of China in which they controlled expansive holdings in such as the South Manchurian Railroad, officers part of the Kwantung Army that were stationed there hatched a plan that would become to be known as the Manchurian Crisis. On September 18th 1931, Japanese soldiers located at the South Manchurian Railroad set off an explosive that they blamed on China (launching both nations into hostile relations for years to come.?? (P,115)) The Japanese invaded Japanese Invaded Chinese controlled Manchuria in 1931 because they wanted to accommodate the rising of the Japanese population, obtain more natural resources, and to stimulate their nearly collapsed economy.
This threat quickly evolved into reality when the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July 1937 signaling the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II in Asia. As explained throughout the course of this paper thus far, this war represented a culmination of almost a half-century of Japanese aggression towards China, and the last chance for the Chinese government to maintain its legitimacy amongst its people. This soon became the largest war fought in Asia, and historians estimate that ten million Chinese and about 500,000 Japanese lost their lives as a result, although precise numbers have never been agreed upon or released by government officials in either Japan nor China. It is said that in Nanjing alone, more than