The expansion of the Japanese Empire 1868-1937

Resotration marking the Westernization of Japan

Military government before that

Island nation to its south annexed in 1872

Largest island ceded to Japan in 1895

A peninsula could have also been ceded to Japan without the Triple Intervention. What is its largest city?

Japan seized the southern half of this island in 1905

Region as large as half of Japanformally annexed by Japan

Former German colony granted to Japan in the Treaty of Versailles, which sparked massive protests in its original country

City attacked by Japanese troops in Sep 18, 1931

Puppet regime established in less than a year

Capital of the regime

Puppet head of state of the regime

League of Nations report that declared the regime as illegitimate

By 1933, Japan had already extended its control south of this ancient structure

City where the Chinese leader was kidnapped by his own generals demanding a united front with the communists against Japanese invasion

This incident marks the beginning of the full-scale invasion of China