Second Sino-Japanese War

After the Marco Polo incident, the Japanese then spread out in China soon reaching Nanjing. To protect the Chinese citizens from being killed brutally, the International Safety Zones Community built a safety zone. Not long after it was built more than 200,000 people move into it. Thanks to the International Safety Zones Community’s effort, this left a legacy in the Chinese history in standing up to the Japanese. Before the Massacre started, the Japanese first have to settle in China. Japan…

industrialized Japanese jumped at the chance. So instead of Chinese workers taking the jobs of iterant Californians, the Japanese were doing it instead. They came in such great numbers that the California legislature could not create an act quickly enough.[5] Because of this, quiet bitterness began to form in the place of public racism. While the Japanese and other eastern Asians were barred from entering the country in 1924, forty-two years of intense, bitter dislike for the Japanese did…

The importance of the Philippines to the Japanese was evident in the fact the archipelago was the largest concentration of forces ground forces other than that found in China. Defeat of Japanese forces at the Philippines would set the ground work for further assault on China and Japanese home island. To secure the Philippines the United States would commit the X Corps, which was comprised of the 1st Calvary and the 24th Divisions; The XXIV Corps made of the 7th and 96th Divisions and finally a…

Even though Mao Zedong’s communist party (the CCP) had far less men than his opponents; rejected aid from the Soviet Union at the same time as his opponents received it in massive quantities from the West, he was able to take control of the country in 1949 and establish what is now a regime on the verge of superpower status. Whether this triumph is a testimony to the genius of communist methods, or whether it was rather the result of wider social, economic, political and military conditions, can…

Tokugawa era to the post-WWII era, Japanese society saw a dramatic shift in the prevalence of Japanese militarism and the existence of the traditional Japanese war mentality. Deeply rooted in samurai culture, Japanese militarism served as a foundation for Japanese society throughout the Tokugawa era; the class system gave way to a ‘warrior-elite’ class that dominated the social hierarchy. This pervasive warrior-dominated culture persisted into the Meiji period. Japanese militarism escalated…

Emperor Meiji), the islands were considered to be the Sino-Japanese boundary for the first time.…

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor seemed like a random act of aggression on an unsuspecting nation that had no reason to suffer, however, what if this was not the entire truth? During the mid to later parts of the 1930 's America, along with Britain, China, and the Dutch, put major trade sanctions on the Japanese Empire called the "ABCD Line" which refers to the nations involved. These sanctions specifically froze Japanese Steel, Oil, and Rubber imports. The Japanese media and propagandists…

Chapter I: Introduction 1. Background Information After the end of World War II, the interdependence among sovereign states began to emerge all over the globe. States started to cooperate with one another in terms of politics, economics, and security in order to promote the prosperity and peace of their territories. Particularly, The Kingdom of Cambodia, one of the countries that suffered from experience of colonialism, has strengthened the international relation with one of the superpowers…

the mutilation of at least 3,000 citizens of surrounding Asian countries during the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II by manufacturing a system of human experimentation performed in a remote location infamously known as Unit 731 (Byrd, 2005) (Mitchell, 2013). Known to the public as the “Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army,” Unit 731 was erected in 1936 in a Japanese-controlled area known as Pingfang, Manchukuo. Nowadays, the former puppet-state…

“Within no time, according to the account of one of the Japanese soldiers, the river and its bank was covered with innumerable bodies, including those of the adults and children. Sources tell us that at least 50,000 people were killed in this tragic incident.” To begin, Genocide is the mass killing of a group and has many individual steps to be classified. In China, during the Sino-Japanese war created conflict in the capital city of Nanking. All eight stages of genocide refer to the Rape of…