Nature and Impact of Japanese occupation
Category: Otro
Actualizado: 31 mar 2024
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Created byAlexander Morgan
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Battle of Midway
- Showed US as stronger Air power (decisive)
- destroyed first line of Japanese defencePeríodos
Chinese Occupation
- 1937 Japan in Peking, 1938 Nanking, 1940 by Ching-wei
- Took control of opium trade
- "Kindlier the Chinese are treated the more demanding and impudent they become"
- Chinese POW used as training for Japnese soldierOccupation of Malaya (and Singapore) feb 1942-1945
- Chinese in malaya treated Harshly; 50,000 executed without trial
- Products taken (rubber which accounted for 40% world supply)Occupation of Burma jan 1942-1945
- Burma railway (to link Siam to Burma to reduce supply link
and help fight the resistance fighters ( started June 1942 )
- over 20% of prisoners that worked there died
- "Bushido" workers (full disposal to the emperor - expendable)Occupation of the Philippines
- Bataan Death March 1942 - 100km for POW camp
- Anyone complaining forced to sit in direct sunlight
- Of 80,000 only 54,000 made it to camp
- box cars so tightly packed some died standing upOccupation of Dutch East Indies Mar 1942 - 1945
- Remushas; 4 million forced Indonesian labourers used by Japanese in SEA
- Sandakan camp in Borneo - fed 100g rice, of 2,700 only 6 prisoners survived
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