Second Sino-Japanese War

Examples of Second Sino-Japanese War in the following topics:

• Japanese Incursions into China

  • The Second Sino-Japanese War lasted from July 7, 1937 to September 2, 1945.
  • The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century.
  • The second Sino-Japanese war continued into World War II, with Chinese Communists and Nationalists in a temporary and uneasy nominal alliance against the Japanese.
  • Soldiers from the Japanese army entering Nanking in 1938, as part of Japan's incursion into China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  • Describe the events leading up to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and the subsequent Second Sino-Japenese War.

• The Rise of Japan

  • In response to post-World war I disarmament efforts, a movement opposing the idea of limiting the size of Japanese military grew within the junior officer corps.
  • From September 1932, the Japanese were becoming more locked into the course that would lead them into World War II, with Sadao Araki leading the way.
  • Various nationalist initiatives were intended to mobilize the Japanese society for a total war against the West.
  • The invasion started what would become known as the Second Sino-Japanese War, which after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 would merge into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War.
  • The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century.

• Japanese Aggression

  • The invasion began what would become known as the Second Sino-Japanese War, which after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 would merge into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War.
  • The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century.
  • It accounted for the majority of civilian and military casualties in the Pacific War, with anywhere between 10 and 25 million Chinese civilians and over 4 million Chinese and Japanese military personnel dying from war-related violence, famine, and other causes.
  • January 1942 marked one of the worst defeats suffered by the Americans, leaving over 70,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war in the custody of the Japanese.
  • Midway was a decisive defeat for the Japanese, and proved to be the turning point of the war.

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • In 1937, Japan invaded China, starting what would become known as the Second Sino-Japanese War.  
  • After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war would merge into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front of what is broadly known as the Pacific War.
  • Of the eight damaged, two were raised, and with four repaired, six battleships returned to service later in the war.
  • One Japanese sailor was captured.
  • The following day (December 8), the United States declared war on Japan.

• Japanese Expansion

  • This was part of an overall global period of social upheavals and conflicts such as the Great Depression and the Second World War.
  • With the introduction of mass education, conscription, industrialization, centralization, and successful foreign wars, Japanese nationalism began to foment as a powerful force in society.
  • These ambitions led to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
  • The Japanese military failed to defeat the Chinese government led by Chiang Kai-shek and the war descended into a bloody stalemate that lasted until 1945.
  • Japan's stated war aim was to establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, a vast pan-Asian union under Japanese domination.

• Roosevelt's Second Term

  • In contrast to his first term, little major legislation was passed in FDR's second term.
  • When the Sino-Japanese War broke out that year, public opinion favored China, and Roosevelt found various ways to assist that nation.
  • In sharp contrast to the loans of World War I, there would be no repayment after the war.
  • Quezon, the second President of the Philippines, in Washington
  • Discuss the limits on Roosevelt's New Deal efforts during his second term

• Pearl Harbor

  • The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base on the morning of December 7, 1941, which led to the United States' entry into World War II.
  • Fearing Japanese expansion, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France provided loan assistance for war supply contracts to the Republic of China.
  • The Japanese attack had several major aims.
  • Second, it was hoped to buy time for Japan to consolidate its position and increase its naval strength before shipbuilding authorized by the 1940 Vinson-Walsh Act erased any chance of victory.
  • The UK actually declared war on Japan nine hours before the U.S. did, partially due to Japanese attacks on Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong, and partially due to Winston Churchill's promise to declare war "within the hour" of a Japanese attack on the United States.

• Civil Rights of Asian Americans

  • Civil Rights controversies surrounding Asian Americans include early immigration restrictions and xenophobia during the Second World War.
  • Spurred by Japan's role in World War II, many Americans, including legislators, became hostile towards Japanese immigrants and people of Japanese descent living in the U.S.
  • In what is now considered to be a major civil rights violation, thousands of Japanese Americans were held in internment camps during World War II.
  • These camps were premised on the suspicion that Japanese Americans could be linked to Japanese war efforts, but in fact they held thousands of civilians without any legal grounds or evidence of criminal activity.
  • During the Second World War, Japanese Americans were forced to relocate to U.S. government administered internment camps on the baseless suspicion that they may plot anti-American activities.

• Japanese Art in the Showa Period

  • The Shōwa period was longer than the reign of any previous Japanese emperor.
  • This was part of an overall global period of social upheavals and conflicts such as the Great Depression and the Second World War.
  • Defeat in the Second World War brought radical change to Japan.
  • Japanese painting in the pre-war Shōwa period was largely dominated by Yasui Sōtarō (1888-1955) and Umehara Ryūzaburō (1888-1986).
  • By the early 20th century, European art forms were also introduced into Japanese architecture.

• The Battle of Midway

  • The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, won by the American navy after code-breakers had discovered the date and time of the Japanese attack.
  • The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
  • The Japanese hoped another demoralizing defeat would force the U.S. to capitulate in the Pacific War and thus ensure Japanese dominance in the Pacific.
  • For the second time, Japanese expansion had been checked and its formidable Combined Fleet was significantly weakened by the loss of four fleet carriers and many highly trained, virtually irreplaceable, personnel.
  • Japan would be largely on the defensive for the rest of the war.