1. Meanwhile in the Pacific region…

2. How did things start to change for Japan in the 1920s and 1930s?
Turn-and-Talk
How did things start to change for Japan in the 1920s and 1930s?

3. Manchurian Incident

4. Manchurian Incident (1931)
Japan’s population exploded
Need food, resources  felt Manchuria was solution
Japanese Army blames Chinese for blowing up railroad
Take over Manchuria
Civilian government did not support

6. 1937 - Japan resumes attacks on China
War Against China
Japan resumes attacks on China
Had more powerful weapons
Rape of Nanjing/Nanjing Massacre
>100,000 civilians, including children, brutalized
US speaks against actions; USSR supplies weapons to China; Britain sends supplies along Burma road
Chinese guerillas control countryside; Japan controls cities
STALEMATE

7. Nanjing Massacre

8. Consequences Growing military power
Manchurian Incident, Nanjing Massacre, Japanese expansion  loss of trade
G.B. & U.S. oil and steel embargo against Japan
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (1940)
Sept. 1940—Japan allies with Germany and Italy
April 1941—neutrality pact with USSR

9. Compare Europe & Pacific
Draw at least 4 things that represent what is occurring in each region during the 1930s and early 1940s
Write on the following:
If you were a leader in the U.S., what would you suggest our response should be to what is happening in Europe and Asia? Explain.

10. Isolationism to War 1932 — Roosevelt is elected president
— Neutrality Acts
1940 — Roosevelt wins election
March 1941 — Lend-Lease Act*

11. The U.S. Position
What is the message?

12. What is the message?

13. What is the message?

14. Japan & Pearl Harbor US places embargo
Tried to avoid war
1941—Tojo Hideki became PM of Japan (militant)
By Nov. 27, military expected attack, but didn’t know where
Decoded messages

16. Pearl Harbor
Hoped to cripple US Pacific Fleet and achieve goals before US could recover and challenge them
Dec. 7th, 1941 — attack on Pearl Harbor
2,400 Americans died; 1,200 wounded; over 200 warplanes and ships destroyed

17. Pearl Harbor – Dec. 7th, 1941

21. Ch. 17 Quiz MONDAY!
Section 1: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, appeasement, Axis Powers
Section 2: Nonaggression Pact, blitzkrieg, start of war, Allies
Section 3: Manchurian Incident, Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (goals), U.S. actions against Japanese war with China
Section 4: U.S. neutrality, Lend-Lease Act, Pearl Harbor cause & effects

22. Prompt #1
Suppose you are President Roosevelt on December 8th, What are the three most important things that must be done to prepare the country for war?

23. Propaganda Activity
analyze the posters within each group and try and determine a common theme