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Period: to
First Sino-Japanese war
Japan victory.
Positioned Japan as a world power/empire. -
Anglo-Japanese alliance
Replaces with 9-power treaty (1922)
Brought Japan into WW1.
Protect trade (w/ China).
Ended diplomatic isolation. -
Period: to
Russo-Japanese war
Japan victory.
Ends with the treaty of Portsmouth.
Was fought over Manchuria and Korea . -
Japan annexes Korea
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China’s Manchu dynasty fell
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Period: to
World war 1
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Bolshevik revolution (Russia)
Russia left ww1 -
Treaty of Versailles (Japan war gains)
Gains territory from China. -
Japanese communist party was created
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Washington conference
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CCP (communism) was an official party
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United front created
CCP and GMD (KMT)
Launched northern expedition to stop warlords -
Nine-power treaty
Belgium, China, France, UK, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, and the USA -
Civil war in China
Between CCP and GMD (KMT)
Used power to fight communism, and not the Japanese -
Zhang Zuolin assassinated
Chinese warlord who ruled Manchuria -
The Manchurian crisis
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Manchurian railway exploded
Blown up by Japanese -
The Manchuria crisis
Caused Japan to leave LoN -
The Lytton commission
Was meant to investigate the Mukden incident. -
Lytton commission report
Determined the invasion of Manchuria was not a result of wanting to protect Manchurians from the Chinese government -
Manchukuo is created
Japanese puppet state -
LoN condemns Japan
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Japan leaves LoN
After Lytton report, and being condemned by LoN members
Japan suffers no consequences from departure -
Tanggu truce
China said that Manchuria and Jehol was under Japanese control, and they would stop fighting for them back. -
Japan/Nazi Germany pact
Anti-Comintern pact (anti communism) -
Pearl harbour