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Washington Armaments Conference

 * 1921-22
 * Limited Japanese expansion
 * Limited Japanese naval power on a ratio of 5:5:3 America :Britain :Japan
 * Forced Japan to returne Kiaochow to China
 * Four-Powers treaty- Britain France US and Japan respect each other’s colonial possessions in Asia pacific
 *  Nine-Powers treaty-colonial powers with possessions or exclusive trade interests in the Asia-Pacific region agreed to support the open door policy in China with equal access to Chinese trade markets

 Introduction to The New Order In Japan 1931-45
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 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> the war began "in December 1941, when Japan attacked The United States and the colonial territories of the powers in South East Asia"
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> Japan wanted to remove European control over the asia-pacific region and restore Asian power
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> The underlining inspiration of the Japanese patriots behind the events of the war in the pacific were to regenerate Japanese society to that of post-meji times in order to remove elements of "western-style corruption"
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> "developments in Japan have often been labeled 'Facist'"
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> Paticularistic view: the war in the pacific was between the Ultra-Nationalistic Japanese way and an alien Western way not between political ideaologies
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"> Justified the Japanese expansion as a racial and cultural 'mission'