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Japan 1930-1945

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The stage of Japanese Expansion in South East Asia and the Pacific by 1942

The 1930s were a time of turbulence for the nations of the world, the armies of evil had begun to rise up and create problems. Nations still healing from the wounds of World War One were pursuing an active course of peace whilst struggling to remain neutral in the new situation which faced the world.
This situation was not unlike the problem America and Britain were facing with Japan. Throughout the 1930s, the Japanese government had begun to develop a policy of Japanese expansion in South East Asia in an attempt to gain vital agricultural, economic and oil supplies. Throughout this policy, Japan had practiced brutal tactics to overrun South Eastern Asia such as in Manchuria and China. This created a dilemma for America and Britain as the question of whether or not to intervene in Japanese brutal...