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The Causes of Pearl Harbor

I . Introduction

After World War I , Japan 's industrial and military power increased , but the modernization of Japanese society caused political conflict . Labour unions , leftists , and liberal political parties called for reforms in government ad the economic system . Conservatives feared that such dissent was dangerous to the nation . Ultranationalists and the military scorned Japan 's limited democracy , which had been created by the constitution of 1889 , and demanded that people give the Japanese emperor . Political tensions were made worse by a faltering economy , which neared collapse

after the Great Depression began in 1929 (Shapiro 2004

By the early 1930 's , Japanese politics and government had become dominated by aggressive militarists who crushed all political opposition . They believed that Japan 's future as military , economic , and political power required territorial expansion in the countries of the western Pacific , especially China . They hoped to establish an empire that would supply the natural resources Japan needed for further industrial development (Halter 2006 . They also hoped to challenge the dominance of the Western colonial powers in the Far East

Thesis Statement : The purpose of this is to investigate the causes of Pearl Harbor

II . Discussion

A . Causes of Pearl Harbor

Military Expansion . In September , 1931 , Japanese army officers contrived Mukden Incident (a bomb explosion falsely blamed on the Chinese , giving them an excuse to attack and conquer Manchuria , which was then set up as a puppet state called Manchukuo . In January , 1932 the Japanese bombed...