1. Section 1-21 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. In September 1931, Japanese soldiers seized Manchuria.  The Japanese claimed that the Chinese had attacked them.  In fact, the Japanese had staged the attack themselves disguised as Chinese soldiers.  When the League of Nations investigated and condemned the attack, Japan withdrew from the league.  For several years, Japan strengthened its hold on Manchuria, which it renamed Manchukuo. The Japanese Path to War (pages 594–595)

2. Section 1-22 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. By the mid-1930s, militants had gained control of Japanese politics.  The United States opposed the Japanese takeover of Manchuria but did nothing to stop it. The Japanese Path to War (cont.) (pages 594–595)

3. Section 1-23 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Chiang Kai-shek tried to avoid a war with Japan.  He was more concerned with the threat from the Chinese Communists.  He tried to appease Japan by allowing the Japanese to occupy parts of northern China.  Japan moved steadily southward.  In December 1936, Chiang formed a united front against the Japanese. The Japanese Path to War (cont.) (pages 594–595)

4. Section 1-24 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. In July 1937, the Chinese and Japanese clashed south of Beijing.  The Japanese seized the capital of Nanjing.  Chiang Kai-shek refused to surrender and moved the capital. The Japanese Path to War (cont.) (pages 594–595)

5. Section 1-25 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Japanese military leaders wanted to establish a New Order in East Asia.  The order would include Japan, Manchuria, and China.  The Japanese thought that, as the only modernized country, they could guide the other East Asian nations to prosperity. The Japanese Path to War (cont.) (pages 594–595)

6. Section 1-26 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. The Japanese planned to seize Soviet Siberia.  During the 1930s, Japan began to cooperate with Nazi Germany.  The Japanese thought that they and Germany could defeat the Soviet Union and divide its resources. The Japanese Path to War (cont.) (pages 594–595)

7. Section 1-27 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact forced the Japanese to rethink their goals.  The Japanese needed natural resources.  They looked to expand into Southeast Asia for sources.  At the same time they knew that they risked strong response from European colonial powers and the United States.  They decided to take the risk. The Japanese Path to War (cont.) (pages 594–595)

8. Section 1-28 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. In 1940, the Japanese demanded the right to exploit economic resources in French Indochina.  The United States responded by imposing economic sanctions, or restrictions on trade that are intended to enforce international law, unless Japan withdrew to its borders of 1931. The Japanese Path to War (cont.) (pages 594–595)

9. Section 1-29 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. The Japanese badly needed oil and scrap iron from the United States.  The economic sanctions were a very real threat. In the end, after long debate, Japan decided to launch a surprise attack on U.S. and European colonies in Southeast Asia. The Japanese Path to War (cont.) (pages 594–595)

10. Section 2-20 Japan at War (pages 599–600) On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.  They also attacked the Philippines and the British colony of Malaya.  Soon after, they invaded the Dutch East Indies and other islands in the Pacific Ocean.  In spite of some fierce resistance in places such as the Philippines, by the spring of 1942, the Japanese controlled almost all of Southeast Asia and much of the western Pacific. Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information.

11. Section 2-21 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. The Japanese created the Greater East-Asia Coprosperity Sphere, which included the entire region under Japanese control.  Japan announced its intention to liberate colonial nations in Southeast Asia, but it first needed their natural resources.  Japan wanted “Asia for the Asiatics” The Japanese treated the occupied countries as conquered lands. Japan at War (cont.) (pages 599–600)

12. Section 2-22 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. The Japanese thought that their attacks on the U.S. fleet would destroy the U.S. Navy and lead the Americans to accept Japanese domination in the Pacific.  However, the attack on Pearl Harbor had the opposite effect.  It united the American people and convinced the nation that it should enter the war against Japan. Japan at War (cont.) (pages 599–600)

13. Section 2-23 Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Hitler thought that the Americans would be too involved in the Pacific to fight in Europe.  Four days after Pearl Harbor, he declared war on the United States.  World War II had become a global war. Japan at War (cont.) (pages 599–600)