Why Did Japan Invade China

Improved Essays
a) The reason why Japan felt the need to invade China, was the Japanese nation’s need for extra resources, which had to the cause of Japan’s growing political star. Primarily, they had found these resources in China, more specifically Manchuria, which surely had no deficit of resources.
b) This is because it had been the time during the collapse of the Ching dynasty with the replacement of republican governments. As this occurred China had been in a political turmoil with had left it with a grand amount of instability.

2. a) Mao Zedong believed that Dr. Norman Bethune had been a very special character. This is because he devoted his time to others without any thought of self, adopting the cause of the Chinese people as his own, he compacted
…show more content…
Moreover, he had shown his overall selflessness through his great sense of responsibility in his work and his great warmheartedness towards all the people he had been working with and the people he had been helping.

3. a) This is because Mussolini wanted to avenge Italy’s losses in Ethiopia from 1895. The losses being the war effort and man power, since the Italian’s had attacked a very strongly united country which had been supported by its traditional enemies rather than opposed, through this, the Italo-Ethiopian war had cost the Italians many losses. Mussolini’s 1935 attack on Ethiopia, had been successful, seemingly avenging Italy’s losses.
b) The reason why Ethiopia would have been so valuable for Italy could be its geographic placement. Ethiopia being a country subsiding in the eastern segment of Africa makes it a country that can easily transport resources, goods, and services very easily, since there is a link in water ways through Italy, all the way to Ethiopia. There are two possible notions of water way transportation from Italy to Ethiopia, the first being the link between the Mediterranean sea and the Nile river, and the second being the link between the Mediterranean sea and the Red sea, all with a viable link from Ethiopia to

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Japan had created a puppet state called Manchuria where they created more living space, more natural resources, and more minerals. The puppet state was a controlled state by Japan. Japan wanted to start expanding to take over everything, to get revenge, and to make it better for them. One reason Japan attacked was to stop the country from coming to a three class nation.…

    • 504 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Through industrialization and colonization, Japan became an economically established participant of global competition over trade. To withstand Western pressure, Japan felt the need to industrialize because “Japan as an agricultural country cannot stand against Russia, Australia, Canada, or America.” (Doc 7) However, since Japan consists of numerous disconnected smaller islands, and it lacks valuable resources, except silk and coal, Japan struggled to meet the high demands of the Western consumers. As a result, Japan utilized its exceptional army to gain resourceful puppet states Manchuria and Korea, where gold, coal, iron ore, petroleum, copper and bauxite were abundant.…

    • 319 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Japan Dbq Analysis

    • 276 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Japan's security and economic survival was ahead of Asian values. Without Japan becoming more powerful East Asia wouldn't have been saved from the west. What made Japan so powerful was the economic exploitation of its neighbors. They are both centralized, protected by the water that surrounds them, and easy passage to the Atlantic.…

    • 276 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    While Hirohito became emperor after his father death. In order to keep his country stable and people support, Hirohito had to gain their support and trust. Japan had extreme militarists, and they wanted the government to be under their power. But Hirohito was in power because he was the son of an emperor and the militarists wanted to expand their country for their economy. The militarists wanted to go into china and conquered it.…

    • 93 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Moussolini wanted an empire that would connect everything and he wanted to run the Roman Empire. Moussolini started threatening Ethiopia. In 1930 the Wal-Wal incident happened given the occupation of Walwal to Italy, then then in 1934, Mussolini claimed that Italy had been wrong. Ethiopia appealed to the League of Nations for arbitration, however the response they received was not in their favor. In 1935, “Italian aircraft hurled upon my armies bombs of tear-gas.…

    • 715 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    1. It is a prestigious honor to provide a character reference for PV1 (P) Samuel E. Licorish, a light-weapon infantryman in the 12th Calvary Regiment located in Illeshiem, Germany. He was one of the many African-Americans who felt proud to defend and serve his country. Unfortunately, he and many others, who looked like him during that era, have fallen victim to past policies of racial segregation and discrimination, resulting in a discharge ‘under other than honorable conditions’. 2.…

    • 573 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Ming China last chinese dynasty, 1368-1644 started when the mongols were overthrown zhu yuanzhang started the dynasty and had many military talents population rose about 150 million people economic progress urbanization and technology increase of people that lived in urban areas people were still able to be fed properly China did not have an industrial-technical breakthrough; which is why is it not the dominant power of the world the ming political system The ming dynasty was ruled by a peasant commander, Hongwu occupations were hereditary and people fell into 3 classifications: peasants, soldiers and workers Hongwu was very powerful and had others do all of his dirty work for him the bureaucracy Confucianism throughout the the Ming…

    • 1390 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Did you know that the attack on Pearl Harbor was a complete surprise because the US was allies with Japan? The Japanese were unhappy with an embargo, which was placed by the US. That led to Pearl Harbor being attacked and the losses were massive. The attack led to the US joining and eventually ending the war. The Attack on Pearl Harbor can be researched through why it happened, what happened, and the effects of it.…

    • 674 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    China wanted to stay in its traditional state while Japan overthrew their feudal shogunate so they could create a government more like the Westerners. The Japanese government wanted to “very rapidly Westernize the nation, in terms of technology and in things like clothing and eating habits” so they could persuade the westerners to believe that the Japanese were their “equals” (Itoh…

    • 1226 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    World War II was a terrible period of time that will be remembered as one of the darkest chapters in our country’s history. With the dead ranging from 60 to 80 million, it is unthinkable to imagine how difficult this war was. Many in the United States simply figured the problems of Europe would be contained to that continent. However, a new enemy brought the war to our country. When the war began, the United States had entered a period of isolationism.…

    • 1100 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Mussolini 's speech was written to introduce his desires as the Premier of Italy and also to portray himself as a strong, charismatic leader that would lift Italy from troubled times. It is interesting that he is not focussed that much on the policies that he will launch, but instead outlining rather broad principles. He also reflects on the actions he has not undertaken since his nomination of the Premier in October 1922. This essay will argue that this speech shows Mussolini in a weak position of power and eventually wanted to overthrow democracy in Italy because of the language he uses, his attitudes to violence and attitudes to democracy.…

    • 1527 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Qing Dynasty Dbq Analysis

    • 776 Words
    • 4 Pages

    In the year 1911 one of history’s most powerful dynasties came to an end. It is highly questionable as to the series of events that led to the fall of Qing China. One thing is clear, Japan a close neighbor to China did not lead the same fate. The question is how did Japan succeed when China did not. It is known that Qing China failed in many aspects including militarily, economically, and internationally.…

    • 776 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It acts as a better way to both connect with the audience and get his point across, viii) Allusion “If they seriously intend it, I shall only say that we shall be delighted to offer Signor Mussolini a free and safeguarded passage through the Strait of Gibraltar in order that he may play the part to which he aspires.” Here Winston Churchill alludes both to Benito Mussolini and the Strait of Gibraltar in order to give the listeners an idea of just how easily the British Empire would be able to handle the Italian fleet. Both are mentioned in tandem in order to create an atmosphere of safety and that even if the Italians were to head up the Eastern coast, it would not matter at all. ix)…

    • 2002 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    East Asia in the 19th to the early 20th century was a time period of change, new approaches and constant pressures. After a lengthy era of isolationism East Asia was experiencing pressure from outside forces. The West approached with strong intentions and new ideas and unique cultural traditions. The Eastern Asian countries were finding themselves behind in advances in several different realms, such as, the military and in technology. Japan and China were suffering under the pressures to surrender to outside forces and open up trade with foreign merchants.…

    • 1496 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Pearl Harbor Dbq Analysis

    • 484 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Pearl Harbor, United States naval base in Hawaii, was attacked by Imperial Japanese Navy on 7th December 1941, what was tantamount to Japan declaring war on US. There is surely variety of possible reasons for this action and it is a topic of debate among historians. Firstly, after Japan seized Indo-China, United States decided to impose economic embargo on Japan. This would certainly prove disastrous to Japan as they would not be able to sustain war with China.…

    • 484 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays