1. **Japan, under the control of Hideki Tojo, becomes a warlike,
imperialistic nation.
Japanese Invasions
-French Indochina (Laos, Vietnam,Cambodia)
-Manchuria (in China)
-Hong Kong (British)
-Thailand
-Burma (British)
-Etc.
**Japan resented the fact that non-Asian nations controlled
Asian resources
**U.S. tries to slow movement of Japan by banning the sale of oil to them.

2. The Panay Incident
*Japan “accidently” attacks U.S. gunboat in the Yangtze River.
-Pays compensation of over $2 million
-Sends diplomats to Washington
*U.S. breaks Japanese code.
-knew it was intentional attack
-tells Japan to get out of China

3. Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
**Japan continued to talk peace with the United States while in secret
they were planning for war.
Pearl Harbor Attack
-Hawaii
-Sunday morning December 7, 1941
-surprise attack on U.S. Pacific Fleet
-Congress declares war the next day (Dec. 8, 1941)
**The Japanese believed that it would take the U.S. at least 2 years to recover and they would have time to take other areas and then defeat the U.S.

5. **In the hours and days that follow the attack on Pearl Harbor,
Japan attacked other American lands- -the Philippines,
Wake Island, and Guam.
**Now the U.S. is fighting WWII
on two fronts.
-Germany in European Theater
(western front)
-Japan in Pacific Theater
(eastern front)