History of Japan in the Beginning of 20 V.

In 1918, the ruling circles of Japan, together with the United States, Britain and China, organized a military intervention against Soviet Russia. Japan sent 75,000 troops to Siberia and the Soviet Far East, occupying the territory to Lake Baikal. Ruling circles. Japan aimed to suppress the revolution, turn the Far East and Eastern Siberia into its sphere of influence, and then seize the northern part of Manchuria, Mongolia and northern China.

More than four-year management of the Japanese occupiers on Soviet soil was accompanied by the plundering of its natural resources, harassment and atrocities of militarists, murders of civilians, and executions of partisans.

The intervention in Russia, led by the militarists, did not enjoy the support of the Japanese people. Japanese socialists and advanced workers organized a mass movement in defense of the gains of the October Revolution from the encroachments of the imperialist powers. The demand for the cessation of Japanese intervention in Russia was put forward by the Japanese trade unions during the celebration of May 1, first held in Japan in 1920. In June 1922, on the initiative of advanced workers in Tokyo, the League for Non-interference in the Affairs of Russia was created, which initiated a broad movement for The withdrawal of Japanese troops from Russia, for the recognition of the Soviet state. History of Japan in the early 20th century ....

During the economic boom of the war, Japan's production capacity has increased enormously. In early 1920, in response to a drop in demand for war materials and weapons at the end of the war, the return to the eastern markets of Japan's former rivals in the country, a crisis of overproduction erupted.

After the war, Britain and the United States increased their armed forces in the Far East, which led to the containment of Japan's ambitious aspirations. At the Washington Conference, which opened in 1921, Japan had to agree to limit the tonnage of its fleet by 60% in relation to the line fleets of Britain and America.

At this conference, nine states concluded a treaty on China that established the principle of open doors and equal opportunities for all powers. He limited Japan's privileged position in China, which it achieved during the war, and opened up ample opportunities for the penetration of American monopolies into the Chinese market. With the conclusion of the treaty of the nine powers, the Anglo-Japanese Union Treaty was annulled.

History of Japan in the early 20 century.