1. The Manchurian Crisis

2. Guiding Questions Why did Japan invade Manchuria?
What was the response of the League of Nations to the Manchurian Crisis?

3. Background The Russo-Japanese War Civil War in China
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff
The Japanese Economy
Handling the Great Depression

4. The Manchurian Crisis
Why was Japan interested in Manchuria during the Great Depression?
The Kwantung Army
Colonel Seishiro Itagaki
Lt. Colonel Kanji Ishiwara
Itagaki

5. The Manchurian Incident
The Plot
Staging the attack
September 18, 1931
Occupying Mukden

6. The Mukden Crisis Chinese Public Opinion The Chinese Civil War
Mao Tse-tung
Chiang Kai Shek

7. The Manchurian Crisis Turning to the League of Nations October 1931
The Response of the League of Nations
January 7, 1932
The Stimson Doctrine

8. The Manchurian Crisis January 14, 1932 The Lytton Commission
Victor Bulwer of Lytton
Manchukuo
Emperor Puyi

9. The Manchurian Crisis Spring 1932
The results of the fact finding mission
October 1932
Condemning Japan

10. The Manchurian Crisis Hoover’s Response The British Response
The Gold Standard
Sir John Simon (February 1933)

11. The Manchurian Crisis
What were the consequences of the Manchurian Crisis?
Breaking the Washington Naval Agreements
Gaining new resources