UGC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Anti-Imperialism, Blitzkrieg, Non-Aligned Movement

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Undergraduate College
• Course: UGC 112
• Professor: Michelle Benson

Document Summary

Lecture 21: chapter 20: the three-world order, 1940-1975. By the late 1930s, german and japanese ambitions to expand brought conflict with. The war began with hitler"s invasion of poland in september 1939 and britain and. The pacific war-the war broke out because of japan"s ambition to dominate asia: japan"s efforts to expand. Throughout the 1930s, japan attempted to conquer asia. In 1937, japan invaded and attempted to conquer the rest of china, without success. 1937: japanese killed over 100,000 civilians in the city of nanjing. After a pact with germany in 1930, japan occupied french indochina in1941. The us became the chief obstacle to japanese expansion. Japanese launched a surprise attack on the american naval base at pearl. In 1942, japanese conquered the american colony of the philippines, the. Japan justified its actions as anti-colonial and pan-asia with the slogan. Asia for asians. they developed myths of japanese racial purity and supremacy.