Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Manchurian Crisis
- USA saw Japan as a threat
- Japan at war with Russia in 1904
- Japanese industries grown during WW1
- USA worried about Japanese competition
- Tried to limit its power
- reduce size of its navy
- Depression wrecked Japanese industries
- Military leaders and business interests in Japan
- Military expansion; strengthen country
- JAPANESE AGGRESSION = MANCHURIAN CRISIS
- Japan had large army and navy
- Controlled Korea and South
Manchurian Railway since 1905
- September 1931
- Excuse of disturbance- took Mukden
- Sent troops to overrun the rest of Manchuria
- Pretended to give Manchuria independence
- Put a weak leader-Puyi (Last emperor of China)-Controlled him
- L.O.N sent Lord Lytton to assess
- Produced a report
- Japanese = wrong
- L.O.N didn't do anything else
- Failed to stop Japan + crisis
- LEAGUE WEAKEND
- Japan refused to accept Lord Lytton's report
- Withdrew from L.O.N in 1933
- Then invaded China's Jehol Province-bordered Manchuria
- Hitler + Mussolini (Dictators) saw obvious weakness in L.O.N
- Japan signed treaty with Germany in 1936
- 1937-invaded China
- L.O.N did nothing to stop it