Leaders were torn as to whether to address modernization and lack of natural resources through unilateral expansion (the conquest of resource-rich areas such as Manchuria to export raw materials to domestic Japanese industrial bases such as Hiroshima and Nagasaki) or international cooperation (a philosophy of pan-Asianism in an anti-Western coalition that would push the colonial powers out of Asia). At home, Japan was riven by political factionalism due to its stagnating economy. Japan occupied a precarious domestic and international position after the September 18 Incident. Comprehending Japanese motivations for attacking China and the grueling stalemate of the ensuing war are crucial for understanding Japan’s seemingly unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, and, therefore, for understanding the involvement of the United States in World War II as well.ĭespite their rapid advance into Manchuria, the Japanese put off the invasion of China for nearly three years. This seemingly small skirmish-known by the Chinese as the September 18 Incident and the Japanese as the Manchurian Incident-sparked a war that would last thirteen years and claim the lives of over thirty-five million people. Japan established the nation of Manchukuo out of the former province of Manchuria. Without a centralized Chinese army, the Japanese quickly defeated isolated Chinese warlords and by the end of February 1932, all of Manchuria was firmly under Japanese control. Hungry for Chinese territory and witnessing the weakness and disorganization of Chinese forces, but under the pretense of protecting Japanese citizens and investments, the Japanese Imperial Army ordered a full-scale invasion of Manchuria. In response, the privately operated Japanese Guandong (Kwangtung) army began shelling the Shenyang garrison the next day, and the garrison fell before nightfall. Evidence, though, suggests that the initial explosion was neither an act of Chinese anti-Japanese sentiment nor an accident but an elaborate ruse planned by the Japanese to provide a basis for invasion. The railway company condemned the bombing as the work of anti-Japanese Chinese dissidents. On September 18, 1931, a small explosion tore up railroad tracks controlled by the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway near the city of Shenyang (Mukden) in the Chinese province of Manchuria. For the Empire of Japan, the war had begun a decade before Pearl Harbor. But the war raised as many questions as it would settle and unleashed new social forces at home and abroad that confronted generations of Americans to come.Īlthough the United States joined the war in 1941, two years after Europe exploded into conflict in 1939, the path to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the surprise attack that threw the United States headlong into war, began much earlier. Armed with the world’s greatest economy, it looked forward to the fruits of a prosperous consumers’ economy. And when it ended, the United States found itself alone as the world’s greatest superpower. It also unleashed the most fearsome technology ever used in war. The war saw industrialized genocide and nearly threatened the eradication of an entire people. Perhaps eighty million individuals lost their lives during World War II. A global economic crisis gave way to a global war that became the deadliest and most destructive in human history. I honestly don't know when or what the circumstances will be though, so we shall see. I think it's a safe bet that sooner or later, that will put her at odds with the best interests of Nazarick as a whole. The fact that she has it probably means she created this one herself from memory, and suggests that her loyalties are to him and not Nazarick (thanks to that little change to her settings in S1E1 that made her madly in love with him). The strange bit of cloth they focused on in the corner of her room at the end of that scene was Momonga's flag, which he destroyed waaaaaaayy back in the beginning of season 1 as a symbol of giving up that name to take on the name of Ainz Ooal Gown. But I suppose if it did it would be for much later down the road. If her absolute contempt for humans will ever actually mean something. We've seen a bit of her questioning his concerns for lowly humans before haven't we? I wonder if anything more significant will come from this later on down the road. But seeing Ainz get pissed while talking to Albedo was cool.
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