Between the Wars Japan

2.  First Sino-Japanese War 1894-5
 Treaty of Shimonoseki
 The Liaodong Peninsula and the island of Taiwan was
gained by Taiwan
 Russo-Japanese War 1904-5
 Treaty of Portmouth
 Japan gains the southern half of the Sakhalin usland and
mineral rights in Manchuria
 Occupation of Korean 1910-1945
 Begins in 1910
 March 1st Movement (1919)
 Much harsher occupation after that

3.  1800s
 The Opium Wars
 Open Door Policy
 The Boxer Rebellion
 The Republic of China
 Formed in Nanjing March 12, 1912
 Sun Yat-sen is President, Yuan Shikai quickly
replaced him, but not a smooth transition
 May Fourth Movement, 1919
 Civil War Develops
 Kuomintang Party (Nationalist) – Sun Yat-sen
(dies from cancer in 1925), then Chiang Kai-shek
 Communist Party – Mao Zedong (Tse-tung)
 Most famous event occurs when the Nationalists
chase the Communists on the Long March and the
Communists retreat and establish a base in a
Northwestern section of China

4.  The Manchurian Incident – September 1931
 Japanese railway is attacked, Japanese claim Chinese
dissidents are to blame, use it as an excuse to invade
 Japanese invade Manchuria, name it Manchukuo
 1933 – Japanese attack the Great Wall region
 July 7, 1937 - full scale invasion of China
 Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjung all fall
 Rape of Nanjing
 China will be on the allies side in WW II
 Japanese will surrender their Chinese holdings in
1945, once they surrender to the US

5.  Death toll: at least
300.000
 More than 190,000
civilians and Chinese
soldiers killed with
machine guns
 150,000 were killed in
other barbaric fashions
 Contest between two
soldiers to see who could
kill 100 people with a
sword
 Japanese soldiers were
later prosecuted and
sentenced to death in
1947