Japan in World War II

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Japan in World War II
@Nikolai Miazin, PhD in History

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Terms
Axis countries - страны Оси (Берлин, Рим, Токио)
genocide - геноцид
declaration of war - объявление войны
aircraft carrier - авианосец
battleship - линкор (большой корабль с пушечным вооружением)
defeat - поражение
GDP (gross domestic product) - ВВП
incendiary bomb - зажигательная бомба
unconditional surrender - безоговорочная капитуляция

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Japan colonies
Korea and Taiwan - colonies:
• development industries
• life level increased
• cultural assimilation (school on
Japanese, Shintoism)
Seoul, 1930s

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Problems of Japanese economy
Limited sales markets:
• Few natural recourses
• Most part of population - poor
peasants
• almost all the World - colonies
of Western countries

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Japan conquests 1930s
Great depression 1929-1933:
• Militarization government and society
• Occupation of Manchuria 1931
• Invention in China 1937
Japanese propaganda

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Occupation Pacific ocean
Japan is an Axis country (Germany, Italy):
• Japan occupied European colonies
• in 1941 USA stopped trading with Japan
include export of oil and demanded to
withdraw army from China
Japan Empire in maximum limits

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Japan attack on Perl Harbor (7 December 1941)
• Attack without war declaring
• 350 aircraft from 6 aircraft carriers
• part of US Pacific Fleet was destroyed

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From victories to defeats
USA had best economy:
• GPD 5 times more
• population 2 times more
Military production in 1942-1945
USA
Japan
Aircraft carrier >100
13
Aircraft
280.000
62.000
Jamato battleship (Japan)

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Japan bombing 1944-1945
Tokyo bombing (incendiary bombs)
Hiroshima bombing (nuclear bomb)

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Kamikaze attacks 1944-1945
2800 kamikaze aircrafts:
• sunk 47 ships
• damaged >300 ships
It was useless:
• US Navy had 6700 ships

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2 September 1945 the end of 2nd WW
Japan signed unconditional surrender
• Japan loose 3 millions people in the war
• USA occupied Japan
• Soviet Union received the Sakhalin and
Kuril islands
Japanese delegation