EAS105H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bombing Of Tokyo, Douglas Macarthur, American Imperialism
31 Aug 2017
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1945- war ended politically-> peace treaties signed, etc. In practical terms, it took time to get people back home Took japanese soldiers around 2 years to get home from camps. Almost 1 million koreans returned to korea from japan. Returning to a place they never been/don"t know well. Dower situates american war as 1941-45 and japanese war as 1931-45. Japan was at war for long time-> exhaustion. To avoid western colonization, japan created an idea of equality where people are to die for that empire. Spontaneous organization by peasants showed they had taken control. Mao collected peasants that realized system of power they were under could be fought. Was the replacement of one kind of oppression over the individual with another. China and korea= different modernized, there was still oppression. People convinced that they should be giving up their lives to a different source of power (the state) Replacement of one type of oppression of the individual with another.
