Japan's occupation of Manchuria was a major factor leading to World War II. Japan was running out of land, had few valuable natural resources, and was politically unstable. These factors, along with many others, led Japan to become more aggressive, in order to take more land, and to be more jealous of the larger powers. This caused many problems, and would eventually lead to World War II. During the late 1920's, Japan was a country …showed first 75 words of 1579 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1579 total…simply listing them, instead of providing analysis of each. The analysis of the Manchurian incident uses only a small amount of the information. The only limitation other than this was that the information can only be accessed through the internet. Sources used: http://www.bartleby.com/65/ma/ManchuriI.html http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp0922.html http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/monos/144/144chap1.html http://encarta.msn.org/encnet/refpages/RefArtTextonly.aspx?refid=761566679&print=69