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War in the Pacific - Coggle Diagram
War in the Pacific
Timeline
1931
Attacks Manchuria
1936
Allied with Germany and Italy
1937
Attacks China
1940-41
South East Asian expansion
1941
Attacks Pearl Harbor
1945
Bombing Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Key Themes for Japan
Nationalism
Expansionism/imperialism
Need for resources
Used Asia countries to collect resources to avoid the US
Sense of external threat
War and Conflict
Many nations violate human rights as they seek to control new lands and their people
The Japanese Imerpial Army was also guilty of this
Ill-Treatment of Prisoners of War
Forced salve labour
The Rape of Nanking
Biochemical Warface
'Military Sexual Slavery''
Girls and women from all over Asia were forced into military sexual slavery
Number of victims varies but is generally thought to be in the range of about 200,000 people