Japan• Military leaders gain control in early 1900s• More influential than emperor by 1930• Want an empire

How might this shift affect how the country is run? Brainstorm an idea in your notes.

Japanese Aggression• 1931 take over Manchuria, China

• 1937-8 Kill over 360,000 Chinese as it continues to expand in China

• U.S. protests but does nothing: Why?

• July 1941: Japan invades French Indochina

• Roosevelt demands that Japan withdraw• U.S. freezes Japanese money that is in American

banks and cuts off exports to Japan

What is different this time?

Strategy in attacking Pearl Harbor

Destroy U.S. naval base in Pacific

Give Japan time to control East Asia before

the U.S. intervened

Pearl Harbor2:30

• 7:55am• December 7, 1941• Air attack

• Over 2,400 Americans killed• 200 planes destroyed

• Declare war the next day

Impact

• U.S. entered WWII