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1929: In California, the Japanese American Citizens League is founded. [21] April 22, 1930: In London, the Allies sign the London Naval Treaty. September 18, 1931: The Empire of Japan's Kwantung Army invades Manchuria, immediately following the Mukden Incident. The United States objects to Japan's invasion and subsequent occupation of China ...
The United States of America was formed after thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence from the British Empire on July 4, 1776. In the Lee Resolution , passed by the Second Continental Congress two days prior, the colonies resolved that they were free and independent states.
The Empire of Japan, [c] also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state [d] that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 until the Constitution of Japan took effect on 3 May 1947. [8] From 1910 to 1945, it included the Japanese archipelago, the Kurils, Karafuto, Korea, and Taiwan.
Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controlled at the time, which may differ considerably from the area it claimed. For example: in the year 1800, European powers collectively claimed approximately 20% of the Earth's land surface that they did not effectively control. [ 8 ]
The Empire of Japan invades Manchuria, September 19, 1931; The Italian Empire invades Ethiopia, October 3, 1935; The German Reich invades Poland, September 1, 1939; The Empire of Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; The United States declares war on the Empire of Japan, December 8, 1941
The first overseas territories that Japan acquired were the islands of its surrounding seas. During the early Meiji era, the Russian Empire established control over the Nanpō, Ryukyu, and Kuril Islands; it also strengthened control of the naichi.
The Meiji era (明治時代, Meiji jidai, [meꜜː(d)ʑi] ⓘ) was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. [1] The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent ...
Map of territorial claims in North America by 1750, before the French and Indian War, which was part of the greater worldwide conflict known as the Seven Years' War (1756 to 1763). Possessions of Britain (pink), France (blue), and Spain. (White border lines mark later Canadian Provinces and US States for reference)