Japan’s answer to the economic render of the depression was war. First, an invasion of Manchuria and then, China.
Japan had few natural resources and the rapidly increasing population.
She determine to take the raw materials and living space that she wanted by force.
(Gun shots)
Western reaction was disheartening. The League of Nations protested and President Hoover applied meaningless moral sanctions.
Not surprisingly, the Japanese ignored both the League and Hoover.
The camp plain went well, and the militarist became the controlling factor in Japanese politics.
(Gun shots)
As usual, it was the ordinary people who pay the price.
The origin of burning, looting and mass murder with accompanied the Japanese on slaught arouse anger and sympathy in the democracies, but no action.
This bloody war would drag on for 13 bitter years in through it all, moved the refugees.
But the very poor and helpless remained. Too frightened, too frightened or too helpless even to move.
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