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15. THE
JAPANESE
OCCUPATI
ONAttacked: December 8, 1941
Occupation: May 8, 1942 – July 5, 1945

16. CAUSES OF JAPANESE EXPANSIONISM
 Japan needed territories to accommodate its
excess population.
 As there was no large consumer market at
home, Japan had to look for markets abroad.
 Being poor in natural resources, Japan
needed sources of raw materials to fuel her
industries.

17.  Japan wanted to become a leader of Asian
nations. It established the Greater
East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere where Asian countries would
become cooperating members of the union.

18. 大東亞共榮圏 Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

19. GROWING
SUSPICIONS AND APPREHENSIONS
The participation of the Philippines in the
Pacific War was an end result of the darkening
relationship between the USA and Japan.

20. TAFT-KATSURA AGREEMENT (1905)
タフト協定桂・
It is an agreement
between William Howard
Taft and Katsura Taro
which provided that the
American government
would recognize Japan’s
suzerainty over Korea in
return for Japanese
disavowal of any
aggressive intentions
towards the Philippines.

21. Slide Image from: Greg Sill, November 23, 2015, Smithtown School District

22. ROOT-TAKAHIRA AGREEMENT (1908)
高平・ルート協定
It is signed by the US Sec.
of State Elihu Root and
Japanese Ambassador to
the US Takahira Kogorō.
The Japanese openly
assured the American
public that the Japanese
government does not
have any intention of
expanding its territory in
the Pacific.

23. Succeeding events in the 1930’s
made the American government
more concerned bout the situation
in the Pacific with the way Japan
annexed the many neighboring
Asian nations such as:

24. The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began on September 18, 1931, when the
Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately
following the Mukden Incident. Manchukuo was a puppet state in Northeast
China and Inner Mongolia, which was governed under a form of
constitutional monarchy.
1. Manchuria / Manchukuo (September 18, 1931)

29. 2. Mainland China (July 7, 1937)
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the
Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.

34. 3. Hainan (February 9, 1939)
The Hainan Island Operation, or Kainan-tō
sakusen ( 海南島作戦 ) in Japanese, was
part of a campaign by theEmpire of
Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese
War to blockade the Republic of China and
prevent it from communicating with the
outside world as well as to prevent imports of
much-needed arms and materials.

39. 4. French Indochina
(September 22-26, 1940)
In September 1940, the Japanese
invaded Vichy French Indochina ( 仏印進駐 ) to
prevent the Republic of China from importing
arms and fuel through French Indochina.

44. AMERICAN RESPONSE:

45. AMERICAN RESPONSE:
 Notified Japan in 1939, that it would not
renew their 1911 Commercial Treaty.
 Imposed more and more restrictions on
American raw materials exported to Japan,
such as oil and scrap iron.
 Imposed economic embargo and freezed all
Japanese assets and credits in the US.

46.  These series of events finally led to the
bombing of Pearl Harbor (an American Naval
Base in Hawaii in the Pacific) on December 07,
1941.

51. BATTLE OF PEARL HARBOR (December 7, 1941)
[also known as Hawaii Operation; Operation AI; Operation Z]
 It was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese
Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7,
1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World
War II.
 Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep
the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions
the Empire of Japan planned in Southeast Asia against
overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands,
and the United States. Over the next seven hours there were
coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.
-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island and on the British
Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

52. CASUALTIES AND LOSSES
 2,403 killed
 1,178 wounded
2 battleships totally lost
2 battleships sunk and
recovered
3 battleships damaged
1 battleship grounded
2 other ships sunk
3 cruisers damaged
3 destroyers damaged
3 other ships damaged
188 aircraft destroyed
159 aircraft damaged
4 midget submarines sunk
1 midget submarine grounded
29 aircraft destroyed