The Pacific War 193745

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The Pacific War (1937-45)

• I. Introduction
• II. Decision for War
• III. Course of War in the Pacific
• IV. The War at Home
• V. Conclusion

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I. Introduction

• Legacies of the war
• War against Western colonialism?

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• War against Japanese fascism?
• A race war?
• "Clash of (two) imperialisms"

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II. Decision for War

• China quagmire
• Japan's Isolation and the Anti-Comintern Pact
  (Nov. 1936)
• Japans "non-recognition" of Chinese
  Nationalist Government
• Japan and the Soviet Union
• War in Europe
• U.S. economic pressure on Japan
• U.S.-Japan negotiations in 1941

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III. Course of War in the Pacific

• Attack on Pearl Harbor and aftermath
• Allied counterattack
• U.S. industrial might
• Why did Japan enter into the conflict when the
  Japanese leadership itself saw such poor chances
  for success?
• A "war without mercy

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IV. The War at Home

• Political repression in the 1930s
• Konoe's "Imperial Rule Assistance
  Association"
• Prime Ministership of Hideki Tojo
• Recantation of communists, enthusiasm among
  intellectuals
• Support for war effort at home
• Ideology of War Greater East Asian
  Co-Prosperity Sphere