3.4 War outside Europe
Problems of Japan
Industrial power
not produce enough food to feed its inhabitants
Japan attacks china
confiscatie Manchuria in Northeast China in 1931
In 1937 signed an alliance with Germany and Italy
Conquered the entire Chinese coast
Very cruel army
Japan attacks America
Pearl Harbor
7 December 1941
Aerial attack waves
powder room of a ship was hit so everything exploded
Attack of Pearl Harbor
Declaration of war
America joined WW2
Japan is stopped
Asia
After Pearl Harbor Japan conquered big parts of Asia
America
Recoverd quickly
The Dutch colonies helped America
Japan kept fighting back
American bomber started attacking Japanese cities
japan resorted to kamikazes
America had developed a new weapon: the Atomic bomb
2 Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Occupied Indonesia
forced labour
Japanese prison camps (jappenkampen)
Indonesian and European women were forced to work as prostitues called 'comfort women'
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