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U.S. and Japan sign treaty of Kanagawa. Japan must open 5 ports to American trade. Americans can live in port cities, but didn't have to obey Japanese laws and only American laws. Paid very small tax on imported items; "flooded" Japan with cheap products.
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Commodore Perry arrives in Japan and forces Japan to open its ports to American ships for resupplying. United States also demanded Japan to begin trading. (Gunboat Diplomacy)
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Emperor Meiji restored as supreme ruler over Japan. Japan begins modernization--new army, sent young people to study abroad, developed technology like trains, ships, telegrsph.
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Emperor restored to most powerful. State Shinto religion. New land laws. People elected congress. (Diet)
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Japan defeated China and took Manchukuo.
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Japan fought with the Russian empire to take coal and iron mines along with arable lands.
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During WW1 Japan sided with the allies. Because factories were shut down in Europe Japan sold materials and supplies and made a lot of money off of it.
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Japan conquered China's coastal ports and took the capital of Nanking.
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Japanese naval commander Yamamoto launches the Pearl Harbor attack.
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Stalemate, US and Japan both lost an aircraft carrier.
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Japan marched US and Filipino prisoners 65 miles and any prisoner who stopped would be executed.
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• June 1942
• Intercept Japan coded message
• Ambush Japanese Navy
• US defeats Japan “Cream” of Japanese
• Japan loses best pilots
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Lt. Col. Doolittle launched an air raid on Japan from the USS Hornet. 130 men were in the raid 10 per bomber. They bombed, Toyko, Kobe, Nagoya, Yokosuka, and Yokohama.
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The battle took about 6 months and thousands of US and Japanese lives were lost.
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United States drops a nuclear warhead on Hiroshima
