Japan 1931-41

By Sophie_Lew

  • Wallstreet crashes - start of global depression

  • Period: to

    US practices isolationism

  • US refuses to acknowledge/recognize Manchukuo

  • May 15 Incident

  • Japan's Ministry of Education - nationalistic indoctrination

  • Roosevelt inaugurated

  • Germany recognizes Manchukuo

  • First Neutrality Act

  • Japanese Naval Program

  • Second Neutrality Act

  • Anti-Comintern Pact between Japan and Germany

  • Second Sino-Japanese War began

  • US rejects ten British appeals to support China with naval power.

  • Roosevelt Quarantine Speech

  • US sends representatives to Brussels Conference

  • Third Neutrality Act

  • Panay sunk by Japan

  • Roosevelt exempted China from the Neutrality Acts and sent them millions of dollars and US fighter planes in support

  • Konoe announces vision of "New Order in East Asia"

  • "Moral Embargo" by US on Japanese trade

  • US imposes trade embargo on Japan

  • Hitler launches attack on Poland

  • Tripartite Act

  • Japan moves South, away from Soviets - US freezes Japanese assets in America

  • US sends abundant resources to China