Manchurian Crisis
- Created by: Khadija Najam
- Created on: 17-02-18 18:35
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- Manchurian Crisis: 1931
- Why Japan invaded Manchuria
- Depression
- Japan had very few natural resources
- Japan relied on silk exports: luxury item not being bought during Depression
- Japanese army was strong and people of Japan wanted good news after Depression
- Manchuria's appeal
- Japan already had large industries there: South Manchurian Railway
- Manchuria had fertile farmland, industry and natural resources
- Depression
- The Mukden Incident
- September 1931: explosion on South Manchurian Railway. Japanese claimed train was attacked by Chinese soldiers
- The Japanese (Kwantung) army used this as an excuse to invade Manchuria
- League's role
- League's reluctance to act
- League didn't want a fight- thought Japan had a right to Manchuria
- Too far away from headquarters
- Confusion as to what happened
- What the League did
- Issued a moral condemnation and told Japan to withdraw troops
- Japan refused
- Couldn't afford to send troops so far away and Britain and France still faced Depression
- Could issue economic sanctions: Japan's main trading partner was USA, which was not a member of the League
- closest powerful to Japan was USSR but couldn't be asked for help as they weren't a League member (joined in 1934)
- Did an inquiry: Lytton report
- Published in October 1932- took a year
- pointless: concluded what people already knew: Japan invaded
- League's findings were official, yet Japan ignored them and left the League
- Issued a moral condemnation and told Japan to withdraw troops
- League's reluctance to act
- Why the League failed
- League acted slowly and achieved nothing
- Own member of the League had undermined it and left
- Long term damage was limited
- Many still thought League would be able to deal with problems
- Failed to stop an act of war
- Hitler and Mussolini given idea that they could also get away with stuff
- Why Japan invaded Manchuria
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