JP 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paris Peace Conference, 1919, White Australia Policy, De Jure
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1919 paris peace conference (organization of the league of nations): Japan proposed the principle of racial equality (i. e. member nations would not discriminate against one another on the basis of race or nationality and would try (cid:498)as much as possible to grant (cid:494)de jure(cid:495) Australia(cid:495)s (cid:498)white australia(cid:499) policy was created in (cid:883)9(cid:882)(cid:883) Usa: chinese exclusion act of 1882, u. s. immigration act of. No western nation would endorse this proposal. equality). 7 weeks of killing and raping chinese civilians. Estimates of casualties range from 20,000 - 300,000. July 22, 1941: the japanese occupy the whole of indo-china. The americans, british, and dutch imposed a total embargo on all exports to japan and froze all of the japanese assets that they controlled. The japanese expected the u. s. to lift its embargo on goods (especially oil) since the american public did not support entering the war in.
