Model states: Japan (1945 - 1951)

1945 - Punish and reform
1. Remove Japan's military force an introduce democracy
2. 1946 - 1948: War criminals prosecuted, Hirohito exempt
3. 1945 - tax on war-time profits
4. 1947 - new constitutional reform drafted with no war clause
5. MacArthur - replaces Hirohito as 'godlike' figure
6. Allowance of all political parties, inc. communist
1947 - 'soft' cold war policy
1. Make Japan prosperous to keep it out of soviet sphere of influence
2. Aim - Japan made a shining example of democracy and free market
3. Massive economic problems
  1. Low production
  2. Weak exports
  3. Food shortages
  4. Issue with trade
4. 1949 - $500m/year aid to Japan used to purchase food and raw materials
5. By 1950, 3 mil peasants owned land
6. American culture embraced
1949 - 'hard' cold war policy
1. Remove Japan's military forces and introduce democracy
2. A rearmed Japan under communist control would be a threat
3. 1948 - MacArthur's control over policy begins to weaken
4. Japanese communist party gaining support
5. 1949 - red scare
  Attachments:
  - Red Scare: late 1940's to early 1950's
  1. Followed by red purge
  2. McCarthyism
    Attachments:
    - Red Scare: late 1940's to early 1950's
6. Containment more important than democracy or independence
1951 - 'integrated' cold war policy
1. When treaties recognised the official status of Japan at the centre of US defence strategies (America rebuilt Japanese army and pumped money into weaponry)
2. 1950 - Japanese rearmament deemed necessary
3. US brought war supplies worth $5 mil
4. 1952 - Japanese army had 130, 000 troops and tanks and artillery
5. 1951 - San Francisco Peace treaty gives Japan independence
  1. US forces withdraw
  2. US make agreement that other countries cannot have bases in Japan unless US agree
Japanese instability in 1945
1. Low industrial and agricultural production
2. 3% of 1939 population dead
3. Spiralling inflaion
4. Lots of poor, homeless and starving people

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Model states: Japan (1945 - 1951)

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