Manchuria

Fascism is a form of totalitarianism that focuses on racism, militarism, nationalism and imperialism. Germany and Japan are two countries who during WW2 personified all of that. One major component of fascism is racism. People in fascist societies are incredibly intolerant towards other races, ethnicities and cultures. They think that the people of their “race” are superior than others. For example, some Japanese people wanted to distance themselves from China, and even gave Chinese people…

The United States and Japan both wanted control over Asia .However, they both had different objectives on how they were going to gain control of Asia between the years of 1899 and 1942. John Hay, who was the secretary of state of the United States, proposed an idea called an open door policy which consisted of the option of opening up trade in China to the United States, China, and several nations in Europe. One of the United States objectives for gaining control over Asia is having China…

so people were prone to accept his ideas, even if radical, because of his amazing promises of a great Germany. While all of the Hitler commotion was taking everyone’s attention, Japan was busy invading China. Japan started with an invasion in Manchuria on September 13, 1931 (Doc Background). The Second Sino-Japanese war began July 7, 1937, two years before the official beginning…

World War 1 was introduced in 1914 to remedy the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Serbia. The result of it was the defeat of Germany and the creation of the Treaty of Versailles, which included a war guilt clause that led to World War 2. By using mutual defense allies and advanced forms of military technology, each nation involved in the Wars tried to prove their dominance and power with an undertone of imperialism in their strategy; thus creating the necessary elements of the 20th century…

Japan seized Manchuria and under China’s complaint removed themselves from the League of Nations, a peacekeeping organization. They had a new plan to conquer all of China. In Italy, Mussolini was inspired by these acts and set out to conquered Ethiopia. Adolf Hitler followed…

December seventh, 1941, a date that will live in infamy. The Japanese launched a surprise attack that left over 2,000 dead, hundreds of destroyed planes, and a crippled Pacific Fleet. In a matter of hours, the Japanese disrupted the neutral and isolationist approach the U.S. had taken into World War II. Why would Japan attack a country that was not involved in the war? Japan felt that as an axis power that they would have to clash with the United States eventually and they wanted to weaken or…

in China was not always so divided in terms of the continual threat of Japanese imperialism, which was growing at an alarming rate in the late 1920s. Clashes between communist s and capitalists were soon abated, however, when the Japanese invaded Manchuria during 1931, which created a nationalistic alliance between the CPC and the KMT to resist the Japanese occupation. The Second Sino-Japanese war was a catalyst in the formation of The Second United Front as a nationalistic merger of the CPC and…

The Han dynasty was China’s first long lasting Dynasties. This dynasty lasted from 206 BCE to 220 CE. The Han Dynasty was built from the remains of the dynasty prior, the Qin Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty Is China’s imperial Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty was notorious for having a very harsh government. This led to many people either being killed or leaving. Adventurer Liu Bang took part in a rebellion against the Qin Dynasty. He would later become the emperor of the Han Dynasty and rule from 206 BCE to…

It has become common today to underestimate the clash during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, as there was no actual fighting between these countries. However, the Cold War was a time of strong tension primarily between the United States and the Soviet Union, which affected many countries around the world. During World War II, the USSR and U.S were allies fighting against Hitler and the axis powers. Nevertheless, the political differences between the Soviets and the…

Despite having many challenges and being overlooked, China's role in World War Two was one of the most important and had a great impact on the war and all of the countries participating in it. China's role is often overlooked because people focus on the fighting in Europe between the Allied and Axis powers. While this fighting was important, the fighting in Asia was just as important. If China had not fended off Japan with the help of some of the Allied powers, Japan would have taken over China…