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Take out… Warm- Paragraph Versailles Agenda up Response DBQ

Put Paragraph Response and DBQ in the middle of the table for collection Warm-up: What information can you gather from this propaganda poster? Elaborate. Make sure you have 3 complete sentences! Imperial RESTORATION

Along with trade, Japan also began expanding into nearby territories. So by the start of World War I… Japan annexes (1910)

Japan gains Emperor

The Manchurian Incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o _sdkbYWiww The Manchurian Incident +

• The Mukden Incident, or Manchurian Incident, was an event staged by Japanese personnel as a pretext for the Japanese invasion of (Northeast ) in 1931 • On 18 September 1931, a small quantity of dynamite was detonated close to a railway line owned by Japan’s . The explosion was so weak that it failed to destroy the track, and a train passed over it minutes later. • The accused Chinese dissidents of the act and responded with a full invasion that led to the occupation of Manchuria, in which Japan established a six months later. • The deception was exposed by the Lytton Report of 1932, leading Japan to diplomatic isolation and its March 1933 withdrawal from the As Holland, France, and Germany were enveloped in turmoil in Europe, Japan looked to replace them in Asia The Nanking Massacre The Massacre (the Rape of Nanjing)

• an episode of mass murder and rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against residents of Nanjing (Nanking) the capital of China • occurred over a period of six weeks starting on December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Chinese and disarmed combatants who numbered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000 and perpetrated widespread rape and looting. • most Japanese military records on the killings were kept secret or destroyed shortly after the surrender of Japan in 1945, historians have been unable to accurately estimate the death toll of the massacre