Manchuria
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- Created on: 31-05-14 14:47
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- Manchurian Crisis
- Japan invade Manchuria- 1951…WHY?
- Economic reasons
- World Wide Economic Depression
- America can't afford to buy their goods and Japan can't afford to buy imports, the economy is suffering!
- Japan needs coal, iron and rubber- MANCHURIA HAS THEM
- Overcrowding
- overcrowded island, immigrants were unable to emigrate to america
- There is space in Manchuria
- Japans Military
- believed that Japan should solve their problems by force
- Military were very important, they had tremendous influence and power, they influenced the emperor to invade
- China was weak
- Japan thought that the invasion would be easy
- had collapsed into chaos- rival warlords divided the country and created mini kingdoms
- Economic reasons
- The spark...
- Mukden Incident
- the Japanese army engineer an explosion on the South manchuria railway, which they owned
- they blamed it on Chinese terrorists
- this was these excuse that China was in anarchy and they could easily invade, it was within their own interest of course because they owned part of the railway
- Mukden Incident
- THE LEAGUES RESPONSE...
- China asks the League for help then League condemns Japan for its actions and orders a withdrawal of Japanese troops
- Japan refuses
- So the lytton commission was launched
- Lord Lytton launched a commission of inquiry sent to Japan to gather information to produce a report
- to find Japan guilty of seeing part of China's territory BUT IT WAS TOO LATE, the report was a year later, slow journey by sea and so was ineffective
- Lord Lytton launched a commission of inquiry sent to Japan to gather information to produce a report
- NO ECONOMIC SANCTIONS because the economic climate was bad and if they did Japan would just go and trade with America and the leagues members would be more effected
- NO MILITARY SANCTIONS, too far away and it is the first crisis are the excuses
- If russia were a member- could have had influence. Japan is very powerful, and they have no permanent army, BRITAIN AND FRANCES ARE still weak from WWI and members of l have to volunteer their men. Britain and france are not willing to lose men. Britains have colonies in the east which they fear will be invaded if they give a military sanction.
- WOuld have been stronger if they had the support of RUSSIAN and AMERICAN armies
- IMPACT ON THE LEAGUE, japan withdrew and drew close to other dictators like HITLER AND MUSSOLINI
- Anti comitern Pact (aimed against communism with Germany and Italy)
- showed that the league were not prepared to fight against aggressive dictator and gave them confidence
- If russia were a member- could have had influence. Japan is very powerful, and they have no permanent army, BRITAIN AND FRANCES ARE still weak from WWI and members of l have to volunteer their men. Britain and france are not willing to lose men. Britains have colonies in the east which they fear will be invaded if they give a military sanction.
- China asks the League for help then League condemns Japan for its actions and orders a withdrawal of Japanese troops
- Japan invade Manchuria- 1951…WHY?
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