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Japan's foreign policy - Interwar period
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Japan's foreign policy
Aims&ideology
Imperialism
Great Pacific power
Economic stability
Strategy
By 1939 Japan had an modern army of
1 million men, 2 millon reservist
51 active divisions
133 air squadrons
deadly efficient bomber and torpedo-carrying squadrons
1920s power was held by the democratic parties of the parliament
- not the emperor and the oligarchic genro
1930s military power
-communists persecuted, political assassinations
Key events
1919 Treaty of Versailles gives Japan territories in the Pacific
Late 1920s ultra nationalism, rejection of “Western influence”
1931 Japan invades Manchuria
1932 Prime Minister is assassinated, military power in the country
1933 Left the League of Nations
1936 Anti-communist agreement with Nazi-Germany
1937 War with China
1939 WWI, Japan moves towards French Indo-China
Effects
- Rape of Nanking” atrocities towards the Chinese people
-Conflict with USA, France, England, and the Netherlands
-Expansionist aims in WW2
-Atomic bombs to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
-Fall of the empire
Interwar period
Role of leading politicians
Strong militarism
Invading China
and later Indo-China to secure economical interests
"Enrich the Country, Strengthen the Army" [Fukoku kyōhei]