1. Case study 1: Japanese expansion in East Asia 1931-41
The growth of Japanese nationalism and militarism after 1931 and the consequent expansion of Japan into East Asia led to war with China and conflict with the West. This was to culminate in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 - an event that drew the Sino-Japanese war and the European war into a global war. Japan's foreign policy shifted from working with the west and the League of Nations in the 1920s to a...