Ultranationalism

Iwakura Mission

Meiji Restoration

Meiji Constitution

Privy Council

Diet

Military

Radical nationalism

Education

Special mission

Militarism

Shogun

Emperor

Industrialisation

WWI

Korea 1876 - 1905

Japan-Korea Treaty 1876

First Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895

Treaty of Shimonoseki

Tripartite Intervention

Taiwan

Russia

Anglo Japanese Alliance 1902

Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905

Boxer Rebellion 1899-1900

Treaty of Portsmouth 1905

Battle of Tsushima Straits 1905

Impact of Russo-Japanese War

Great Powers

Shantung Peninsula 1914

China 1915

21 demands

Paris Peace Conference 1919

League of Nations

Mandates

Japan is now an important military power

GOALS

Shidehara diplomacy

Washington Naval Conference 1921-1922
(5 power treaty)

4 Power Treaty 1922
9 Power Treaty 1922

London Naval Conference 1930

Economy

Zaibatsu

Economic crisis

26 February Incident

Political crisis

Peace Protection Law 1925

The Showa Restoration

Military factions

March Incident & October Incident 1931

League of Blood Incident 1932

15 May Incident

Toseiha Faction

China - Warlord Era 1916-1928

Manchuria

Northern Expedition

Newly united China

End of Shidehara diplomacy

Positive Policy 1927

The Manchurian Crisis

Mukden Incident 1931

Responses to Manchurian Crisis

Lytton Comission

Japan withdraws from LoN 1933

China signs Tanggu Truce 1933

Open Door Policy (US & China)

Stimson Doctrine

Japan's govt towards crisis

Debate on crisis

Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945

China Garrison Army

Umezu-He Agreement 1935

East Hebei Autonomous Council

Second London Naval Treaty 1935

Doihara Kenji-Qin Dechun Agreement 1935

Mengjiang 1936

Second United Front

Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937

Actual Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945

(By its outbreak, Japanese military controlled govt and political parties were banned)

Nanjing Massacre

Chongqing

Further expansion in China
(rapid expansion from 1931-1937, mostly through treats and military action)

Responses to 2nd Sino-Japanese War

China appeals to League

Japanese & Soviet troops battled at Mongolia, May 1939

USA response to 2nd Sino-Japanese War

Germany's response to 2nd Sino-Japanese War

1936: Japan and Germany agreed to oppose communism in the Anti-Comintern Pact

Nazi-Soviet Pact, August 1939
(Non Agression Pact)

Japan alarmed

Tripartite Pact 1940

Neutrality Agreement 1941 (Japan and USSR)

Wuhan 1938

China's response to conflict with Japan

Collapse of Second United Front (Nationalists & Communists) against Japan, 1941

French Indochina

The oil embargo

Japanese planning by Admiral Yamamoto

The Hull Note, November 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbour, December 1941

Attacks on other US territories

Attacks on British territories