The trade and fuel embargo
Trade embargo
The takeover of parliament by the military
The Hiroshima bomb
Russian advances
The US trade and fuel embargo on Japan
The embargo by the US
Fuel embargo
What act against Japan resulted in the attack on Pearl Harbor?
The trade and fuel embargo
War with the Chinese nationalists
The war in Europe
The United State's trade and fuel embargo made against Japan
Japan's alliance with Germany
The US trade and fuel embargo on Japan
The Japanese invasion of Britian
What resulted in the attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
By the 1930s
Less than 5 years
Approximately 7 years
Seven years
Eight years
7 years
How long after occupying Manchuria did Japan hold Nanking?
Japan
Russia
The Japanese government
China
The Soviet Union
Japanese
What country held possession of Nanking, Hankow, and Canton by 1938?
Nationalists
Japan's generals and admirals
Soviet Union
The Japanese government
China
The generals and admirals
Tokugawa
Who proclaimed Japan's mission to bring progress to its backward Asian neighbors?
The Russian Revolution
1933 Chinese earthquake
The Russian Revolution of 1917
World War I
The need for manufacturing and construction
The 1923 Toyko earthquake
The 1923 Tokyo earthquake
What event allowed the zaibatsu conglomerates to take advantage of an economic upsurge?
To build ships
Japan believed it needed the territory to buffer against Russian advances
As a buffer against Russian advances
To build a defensive area against the Russians
To buffer against Chinese advances
To spread Japanese culture
To protect japan from Russian invasion
Why did japan occupy Manchuria in 1931?
Mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and banking
Combines involved in mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and banking
Zaibatsu conglomerates
Expansionists
A dozen family run combines of different industries
Banking and shipping combines
Trades
Ultr-right wing groups
What were a few of the tightly controlled commercial pyramids in Japan?
Triumph and Disaster: The 20th century saw a stupendous release of energies that had been pent up for the 250 years of Tokugawa isolation. By 1930 raw-material production had tripled the figure of 1900, manufactured goods had increased twelve-fold, and heavy industry was galloping towards maturity. Britain led the World War I Ailies in large orders for munitions, while Japan expanded sales of manufactured goods to Asian and other markets cut off from their usual European suppliers. Merchant shipping doubled in size and increased its income ten-fold as the European fleets were destroyed. Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors. Even the terrible 1923 Tokyo earthquake, which cost over 100,000 lives and billions of dollars, provided another stimulus due to the construction boom that followed. Riding the crest of this economic upsurge were the zaibatsu conglomerates — a dozen family-run combines, each involved in mining, manufacturing, marketing, shipping, and banking. These tightly controlled commercial pyramids were the true heirs to the old feudal structures. Japan's progress toward parliamentary democracy was halted in the 1930s by the growing nationalism being imposed on government by the generals and admirals. They proclaimed Japan's mission to bring progress to its backward Asian neighbors in language not so very different from that of the Europeans in Africa or the US in Latin America. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union was regarded as a major threat to Japan's security, and the army felt it needed Manchuria and whatever other Chinese territory it could control as a buffer against Russian advances. In 1931 the Japanese occupied Manchuria. And then in 1937, with the popular support of ultra-right-wing groups, the army overrode parliamentary resistance in Tokyo and went to war against the Chinese Nationalists. By 1938, they held Nanking, Hankow, and Canton. Japanese expansionist policies were leading to direct confrontation with the West. Japan hoped that war in Europe would divert the Soviet Union from interference in East Asia, giving Japan a free hand both in China and, through its alliance with Germany, in French IndoChina after the defeat of France. The US responded to the Japanese invasion of IndoChina with a trade and fuel embargo, cutting off 90 percent of Japan's supplies. The result was the attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941) and total war. 