Questions on Japan. - Pearl Harbour, Manchuria.

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Exam Questions on Japan

A) Describe briefly what happened at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii on the 7th of December 1941.

On the 7th of December 1941, Japanese fighter planes dropped their bombs and torpedoes on the US Naval base of Pearl Harbour, Hawaii.  Japan held some resentment on the Western world, in particular the USA for a number of reasons.

B) Why did Japan attack Manchuria in 1931?  

Japan attacked Manchuria for a number of reasons.  Firstly, Japan had suffered badly from the depression, as both China and the USA had to put up tariffs on Japanese goods.  America could not afford to buy Japanese goods such as silk as these were seen as luxuries.  Without this trade Japan could not afford to feed it’s people.  The Japanese Army leaders wanted to build up the Japanese empire.  

Japan had felt disappointed with the gains from the war.  Japan only received a little land from the Paris peace conference and was disappointed as it played a large role in the war.

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Japan suffered a population explosion from 1920 so was in need of more land.  

The Japanese people had a very low opinion of the Chinese - a Japanese form of "untermenschen" and, would have given no thought to the Manchurian people whatsoever. It was also believed in Japan that Manchuria was rich in minerals, forestry and rich agricultural land. With the problems that Japan was experiencing at home, Manchuria seemed an obvious solution to these problems.

The civilian government found that it had no solutions to the problems presented by the worldwide depression and to the army the civilian ...

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