HIST 2910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Zhang Xueliang, Japanese Militarism, G-Type Main-Sequence Star
20 Apr 2016
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Outline: ongoing aggression, xian incident, 1926, marco polo, 1937, pearl harbour, 1941, war"s end, 1945. Disagreement about the duration of the war among different textbooks. Hayashi fusao (1903-75: famous writer, social-critic in japan, argued it was an 100 year war started between asia and western imperialist aggression. 1845-1945 won the civil war: blamed western imperialism, nationalism, white/caucasian imperialism. Mao came out of the war with more power in china: mao was grateful for japan without japan, communist party would have never. Militarism rise of army/navy/air force in japan. Sir alexander cadogan: had many people, resources, patriarchal society in japan allowed for expansion of military, violence, british under-secretary of the foreign office, referred to japanese as little yellow dwarf slaves . Japanese would argue that this racism that lead to expansion of japan. Japanese leadership had to do something because the powers were blocking them.
