ANSWER IMMEDIATELY PLEASE Classwork:

THIS IS DUE TODAY AND WILL BE GRADED
10 points

1) Read the below excerpt from Chapter 5, and explain how the beliefs, values, and ideologies expressed in the Japanese culture (through the military and elsewhere) made Japan’s entry into World War 2 inevitable. Be thorough and provide details from the excerpt.


As Louie blazed through college, far away, history was turning. In Europe, Hitler was laying plans to conquer (TAKE CONTROL) the continent. In Asia, Japan’s leaders had designs of equal magnitude (SIZE). Poor in natural resources, its trade crippled by high tariffs (TAX) and low demand, Japan was struggling to support a growing population. Eyeing (LOOKING AT) their nation’s resource-rich neighbors, Japan’s leaders saw the prospect of economic independence (CONTROL THEIR OWN WEALTH), and something more. Central to the Japanese identity was the belief that it was Japan’s divinely mandated (ORDERED BY GOD) right to rule its fellow Asians, whom it saw as inherently inferior. “There are superior and inferior races in the world,” said the Japanese politician Nakajima Chikuhei in 1940, “and it is the sacred (HOLY) duty (RESPONSIBILITY) of the leading race to lead and enlighten (BRING KNOWLEDGE TO) the inferior ones.” The Japanese, he continued, are “the sole superior race of the world.” Moved by necessity and destiny, Japan’s leaders planned to “plant the blood of the Yamato [Japanese] race” on their neighboring nations’ soil. They were going to subjugate (OPPRESS) all of the Far East.
Japan’s military-dominated (CONTROLLED BY THE MILITARY) government had long been preparing for its quest. Over decades, it had crafted (CREATE) a muscular (STRONG), technologically sophisticated (ADVANCED) army and navy, and through a military-run school system that relentlessly and violently drilled children on the nation’s imperial destiny, it had shaped its people for war. Finally, through intense indoctrination (BROUGHT INTO BELIEFS WITHOUT QUESTIONING THEM; COULD BE BRAINWASHING), beatings, and desensitization (MAKE NUMB), its army cultivated (NURTURE OVER TIME) and celebrated extreme brutality in its soldiers. “Imbuing (TO PUT INTO) violence with holy meaning,” wrote the historian Iris Chang, “the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative (SOMETHING URGENT) every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition.” Chang cited a 1933 speech by a Japanese general: “Every single bullet must be charged with the Imperial Way, and the end of every bayonet (RIFLE WITH DAGGER ATTACHED) must have National Virtue burnt into it.” In 1931, Japan tested the waters, invading the Chinese province of Manchuria and setting up a fiercely oppressive puppet state. This was only the beginning.