HIST 2340W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: United States Senate Committee On Foreign Relations, South Manchuria Railway, Washington Naval Conference
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09/19/2019 - us diplomatic history fall 2019 professor hershberg. Chapter 5: asia, latin america, and vagaries of power, 1920 1939. Japanese plotted to seize manchuria from china, so they made up the mukden crisis, Apparently blasted a short section from the south manchurian railway. Manchuria was ranked a vital interest where the unprecedented harmony of the five races (japanse, chinese, manchu, mongolian, and korean) might be perfected. Chinese nationalists throughout 1920s had resisted japanese intrusions, boycott. This incident means: japanese violated treaties signed at the washington. Conference, specifically the open door and the kellogg-briand pact of 1928 (outlawed war) Stimson (secretary) either intervene militarily, or use economic sanctions, thinking that it might force tokyo to disengage from manchuria => send a letter to chair of. Senate foreign relations committee, hoped to encourage china, enlighten american public, exhort the league, stir up the british and warn japan.
