Axis Expansion: Japan

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Axis Expansion Japan Italy
The Coming of World War II

• Objective
• Analyze the Causes of World War II including
  Axis Expansion (Japan Italy)

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Partner Question

• 1. Explain the objective in your own words.

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Japanese Aggression

• Japan was looking for growing room.
• Japan looked to Chinas northern province of
  Manchuria as an area in which to expand.

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Partner Questions

• 2. What other country is similar to Japan in
  looking for growing room?
• 3. Where did Japan look to expand?

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Japanese Aggression

• Japanese industrialists wanted its rich deposits
  of iron ore and coal.
• The Japanese army seized Manchuria in 1931 and
  established a pro-Japanese government there.

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Partner Questions

• 4. Why did the Japanese occupy Manchuria?
• 5. What vocabulary term describes this
  occupation? Previous Unit

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Japanese Aggression

• Protests were made at the League of Nations, but
  it took no action that would stop Japan.

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SET UP TO KEEP THE PEACE AND AVOID FUTURE WAR.
THE UNITED STATES DID NOT JOIN, EVEN THOUGH IT
HAD BEEN PRESIDENT WILSONS BRAINCHILD. HE FAILED
TO GET THE SENATE TO RATIFY THE TREATY. SINCE THE
U.S. DID NOT OFFICIALLY JOIN, THE LEAGUE WAS
WEAKENED FROM THE START.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS THEY CONDEMNED THE JAPANESE
TAKEOVER OF MANCHURIA. JAPAN RESPONDED BY
QUITTING THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. NOTHING ELSE WAS
DONE, SO JAPAN AND HITLER LEARNED THAT THEY COULD
CONQUER OTHER LANDS WITHOUT ANY CONSEQUENCES FROM
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
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Partner Questions

• 6. Why was the League of Nations weakened?
• 7. Did the League of Nations take any military
  action to stop Axis expansion?

Failure of the League of Nations to take any
actions stop Axis expansion.
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Japanese Aggression

• Relations between Japan and China were strained.
• A minor incident in 1937 quickly developed into
  open warfare.
• Chinese and Japanese soldiers exchanged fire at a
  bridge near the Chinese city of Beijing.
• Although outnumbered, the Japanese army was
  well-equipped, well-trained, and efficient.
• Japanese soldiers swept through parts of China,
  torturing and killing thousands.

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IN 1937 JAPANESE ARMIES INVADED CHINA BEGINNING A
STRUGGLE THAT ENDED ONLY WHEN JAPAN WAS DEFEATED
BY THE UNITED STATES IN 1945.
THE JAPANESE USED INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING TO
TERRORIZE CHINA. THEY WERE NEVER SUCCESSFUL IN
CONQUERING THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
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Italian Expansion

• Benito Mussolini sought prestige for Italy by
  setting up overseas colonies.
• Mussolini decided to begin his dream of a new
  Roman Empire by colonizing Africa.
• Ethiopia was one of the few independent nations
  of Africa.

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Partner Question

• 8. Where did Mussolini look first to expand the
  Italian empire?

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Italian Expansion

• In 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia and quickly
  conquered it.

ETHIOPIA LACKED THE MODERN WEAPONS THAT ITALY
POSSESSED.
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Italian Expansion

• When Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia,
  appealed to the League of Nations for help, the
  League voted only for sanctions against Italy.

ROYAL FAMILY OF ETHIOPIA AT TIME OF ITALIAN
INVASION.
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SELLASSIE TRIED TO APPEAL TO THE LEAGUE FOR
INTERVENTION IN ETHIOPIA. HE ARGUED THAT IF THE
LEAGUE IGNORED HIS APPEAL IT WOULD PUT ALL SMALL,
POORLY ARMED COUNTRIES AT RISK.
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Italian Expansion

• No one took military action against Italy.
• Britains and Frances policy for Mussolini was
  the same as their policy for Hitler

Appeasement
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Partner Question

• 9. Why do you think the League of Nations would
  not help Ethiopia? Think Appeasement

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Circle List
Violations of the Treaty of Versailles
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Partner Questions

• 10. Give two examples of Hitler and Nazi Germany
  defying disobeying the Treaty of Versailles.

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The Italian Campaign in Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
Retreat of the Emperors Army to Korem, April
4-5th 1936 Colonel Konovaloff Pg. 513
Eyewitness to History Abyssinia An American
Journalist with the Fascist Armoured Column
Approaching Addis Ababa, April 18th,
1936 Herbert Matthews Pg. 516 Eyewitness to
History