Manchuria

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. (Doc 10) Japan’s effort to industrialize led them to establish colonies…

needed to survive and imagining Minjok made tlhis possible. The way he constructed Korean Minjok is as follows. First, he defined the main ethnic group which all Choson people belong to. With Minjok imagination, he claimed Korea’s legitimacy of Manchuria. Second, he related geographical trait to define and confine who Choson, now ‘Han(韓)people’ belong to. Shin’s construction of Korean nation(Minjok). Benedict Anderson defined nation as place which ‘is an imagined political community – and…

President Woodrow Wilson made a declaration of war in April 1917. This declaration was reported worldwide under the pronouncement that it would make the world "safe for democracy", ultimately leading to the Fourteen Points, and the United States' vision for the post-war world. The Fourteen Points, and the promises within helped bring the Germans to "peace talks" post-war. Manela - Ch. 6 Ch. 10 - The Wilsonian Moment: This chapter discussed the impact of Woodrow Wilson, and perhaps his optimism…

In the Russo-Japanese War, Russia and Japan were battling over Korea and Manchuria. Both countries signed contracts over the regions, but Russia broke them. Japan responded by attacking Russians at Port Arthur in Manchuria. Russians got news of this, and that led to a revolt in the middle of the war. On Bloody Sunday, 200,000 works walked to the czar’s palace in St. Petersburg, but the czar’s soldiers…

Post World War I, Woodrow Wilson outlined 14 points in a speech to the American Congress in January 1918. Wilson's Fourteen Points became the foundation for a peace programme. On the back of the Fourteen Points, Germany and allies agreed to an armistice in November 1918. Failure to adhere to Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points possibly triggered World War II. The Treaty of Versailles indicated: 1) that Germany had to accept blame ‘for all the loss and damage’ of the war, 2) the Germans were allowed no…

immigrants, but other key destinations included Canada, Australasia and Latin America. Although migration flows from other areas did exist at the time for example, the massive migration flows that ran South-South, so from China and India to East Africa, Manchuria and Southeast Asia), this essay will focus on migration from Europe to the New World because scarce data exists on the former group of migrants. By synthesising…

General Hideki Tojo was born in Tokyo, in the Kōjimachi district on December 30, 1884. He was the eldest son of a samurai descent. In 1899, Tojo entered a military school to follow his father’s footsteps of a Japanese military man. In 1909, he married a woman, Katsuko Ito. Together they had three sons and four daughters. Tojo graduated in 1915 with honors, then he went to Europe and studied there for three years. In 1922, when Tojo had returned, he became an instructor at a war college for…

Atomic Bombing LEQ It was August 6, 1945 and little did the Japanese community of Hiroshima know that the first atomic bomb, known as Little Boy, would be dropped on their city that morning. The weapon of mass destruction devastatingly murdered about 130,000 people and left thousands more injured. A second bomb, known as Fat Man, followed suite only three days later on Nagasaki killing an upwards of 70,000 civilians. A few days later, the Japanese surrendered and World War Two ceased to…

Why did Japan ultimately surrender during World War 2? For the last seventy years, Japanese and American public have hung onto the idea that the atomic bombs ended the war. For the Japanese, these bombings helped symbolize their nation as a victim, obscuring their role as the aggressors, while for Americans they have always been a means justifiable by the end. On the surface it’s easy to believe that the bombs paved way for the end, but there is a problem with the timing that shows otherwise.…

nineteenth century later than the Western colonizers such as England, France, the Dutch, Russia and Germany that started to show interest in Asia particularly China earlier that century. This had allowed Japan to build an empire stretching from Manchuria in the North to Dutch East Indies in the south from 1868 until the end of the World War…