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Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?. 1931. Stimson Doctrine-The U.S. refused to diplomatically acknowledge the addition of Manchuria to Japan Secretary of State Henry Stimson The U.S. threatened no military or economic retaliation.

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Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

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  1. Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?

  2. 1931 Stimson Doctrine-The U.S. refused to diplomatically acknowledge the addition of Manchuria to JapanSecretary of State Henry Stimson The U.S. threatened no military or economic retaliation. • United States did not want to disrupt trade with Japan. • U.S. supplied Japan with most of its scrap iron and steel. • U.S. sold Japan 80% of its oil.

  3. 1937 Sino-Japanese War • Japan begins full scale war against China • 35 million Chinese killed or maimed during the War. December 13, 1937 city of Nanking fell to Japanese • 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed • 20,000 women were raped. • 200,000 Chinese were killed in germ warfare • experiments

  4. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek 蔣中正蔣介石 Nationalist leader of China 1928-1948

  5. 1939 U.S. announced it was pulling out of the 1911 Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with Japan July 1940 U.S. aviation gas ban Fall 1940 U.S. Embargoed iron, steel and machine parts

  6. 1941 July 1941 U.S.completely embargoed resources to Japan U.S. froze all Japanese assets in American entities • November 26, 1941,U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull handed Japanese ambassadors in Washington D.C. the "Hull Note." • The only way for the U.S. to remove the resource embargo was for Japan to: • Remove all troops from China. • Remove all troops from Indochina. • End the alliance it had signed with Germany and Italy the previous year.

  7. Last Diplomatic Meeting November 17 1941 Secretary of State Cordell Hull Japanese Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburō Nomura (left) and Special Envoy Saburō Kurusu (right)

  8. December 7, 1941

  9. U.S. declares war on Japan December 8, 1941 Japanese attack the Philippines December 8, 1941 Germany declares war on the U.S. December 11, 1941 American forces are defeated in the Philippines Surrender May 8, 1942

  10. Battle of Midway June 4-7, 1942

  11. Philippines 1944-45 Iwo Jima, February 1945 Okinawa April 1- June 21, 1945 U.S. -75,000 casualties Japan-110,071 killed

  12. August 6 Hiroshima August 9 Nagasaki and Soviets invade Manchuria August 15 Japanese surrender 1945 "Should We continue to fight, it would not only result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization." -Emperor Hirohito

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