Asia from 1920 to the End of World War II (2)

For Monday's class, please read chapter 17 from page 384 to the end, and be prepared to answer the following questions:

• How did Japan benefit from WW I?
• How did the Japanese treat Korea, Taiwan, and Manchuria?
• What was unfortunate about the 1889 constitution? What were the results?
• How did the Great Depression effect Japan?
• How did the Japanese military respond to the threat of a unified China? Was the response supported by the civilion government?
• Who was Henry Puyi?
• How did Japanese fascism differ from Italian and German fascism?
• Why did the U.S. forbid the export of oil and scrap iron to Japan?
• What was Japan's response to the U.S. embargo? Why?
• What arguments can be made against Japanese claims that they were the victims in WW II?
• What mistakes did Chiang Kai-shek make?
• How did the communists gain wide popular support?
• What reinforced Allied stereotypes of the Japanese as fanatics?
• Why were the Japanese ready to surrender by early 1945, and why did the U.S.  use the atom bombs anyway?