DP Move to Global War: Case Study 1: Japan, 1931-41

Foreign Policy

• China-Japan War, 1931-45 

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• Sino-Japanese War 
• Second S-J War 
• Alpha History: Second S-J War 
• Tri-Partite Pact 
• Japan and the Tripartite Pact 

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• Japan, China, the United States and the Road to Pearl Harbor, 1937–41 
• Attack at Pearl Harbor: Japanese POV 
• Pearl Harbor 

  BBC
• Road to Pearl Harbor 
• Mukden Incident 

• Second United Front 
• Mao, the Comintern and the Second United Front 
• The New United Front 
• The Lytton Commission 
• The Manchurian Incident, the League of Nations and the Origins of the Pacific War 

• Japan's Economic Expansion into Manchuria and China 
• Financing Japan's WW II Occupation of SE Asia 

  PDF: Oxford Includes discussion of pre-war economics
• Interwar Trading Blocks: Japan, Germany Britain, 1919-1939 
• Industrialization and Global Integration of Meiji Japan 
• THE EARLY U.S.-JAPAN ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP AND THE RISE OF SHŌWA MILITARISM 

• Japan's March Towards Militarism 
• Preserving Imperial Sovereignty in the Changing Political Order of Prewar Japan 

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• Japanese Imperalism: Late Meiji Studies 

  Google Book chapter
• The Manchurian Crisis and Japanese Society 1931-33 

  Google Book