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Cover -- Stars and Stripes Across the Pacific -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 The Beginnings: New Experiences for Americans in Asia and the Pacific -- CHAPTER 2 Expansion in Asia and the Pacific -- THE SINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894-1895 -- JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES BECOME POWERS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC -- THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AND THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS -- THE PHILIPPINE WAR -- JOHN HAY AND THE OPEN DOOR -- THE BOXER REBELLION -- CHAPTER 3 New Century and Rising New Powers -- JAPAN TEAMS UP WITH BRITAIN: ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE OF 1902 -- THE UNITED STATES AND POTENTIAL ENEMIES IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC -- THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR, 1904-1905 -- STIRRINGS OF NATIONALISM IN CHINA AND EFFECT ON THE UNITED STATES -- FROM THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR TO WORLD WAR I -- CHAPTER 4 World War I: Big Rewards for Japan with Little Pain -- JAPAN AGAINST GERMANY: SHANTUNG PENINSULA AND PACIFIC ISLANDS -- TWENTY-ONE DEMANDS AND AMERICAN OBJECTIONS -- LEGISLATION PASSED FOR EVENTUAL INDEPENDENCE OF THE PHILIPPINES -- LANSING-ISHII AGREEMENT -- THE SIBERIAN INTERVENTION -- PROTESTS IN KOREA AND CHINA AGAINST JAPAN -- CHAPTER 5 The 1920s: A Move to Liberalism in Japan and Turmoil in China -- THE SIBERIAN INTERVENTION: JAPAN PULLS OUT UNDER PRESSURE -- THE WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE, 1921-1922 -- A LIBERALIZING TREND IN JAPAN: TAISHO DEMOCRACY -- THE GREAT KANTO EARTHQUAKE OF 1923 -- THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA AFTER THE WASHINGTON NAVAL CONFERENCE -- OPPOSITION TO JAPANESE IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES -- CHAPTER 6 The Japanese Army Moves in on Civilian Government -- ARRANGEMENT IN CHINA: RENEWAL OF EXPANSIONIST ADVENTURES -- KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT: THERE WILL BE NO MORE WAR -- THE LONDON NAVAL CONFERENCE: JAPAN'S NAVY REBELS AGAINST LIMITS -- WORLDWIDE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION.
CHAPTER 7 The Early 1930s: Japan Expands While the United States Withdraws from Colonial Ambitions -- DECEPTION AT MUKDEN: THE JAPANESE ARMY OCCUPIES MANCHURIA -- BIRTH OF A PUPPET STATE IN DEFIANCE OF WORLD OPINION -- ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMONWEALTH -- CHAPTER 8 Japan's Attempt to Conquer China -- THE MARCO POLO BRIDGE: ANOTHER PRETEXT FOR INVASION -- WAR IN EAST CHINA: JAPAN "FORCED" TO LAUNCH A PUNITIVE ACTION -- THE PANAY INCIDENT: A U.S. NAVY VESSEL DESTROYED -- THE MASSACRE IN NANKING: JAPANESE TROOPS RUN AMOK -- STALEMATE IN CHINA: THE WAR BOGS DOWN AMID A DIVIDED CHINA -- CHAPTER 9 Confrontation between the United States and Japan -- THE UNITED STATES TAKES A STERN POSITION WITH JAPAN -- THE UNITED STATES IMPOSES TRADE RESTRICTIONS ON JAPAN -- NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES IN 1941 -- THE ATLANTIC CONFERENCE -- THE FINAL NEGOTIATIONS -- CHAPTER 10 The Military Dictatorship Takes Japan to War -- JAPAN STRIKES: PEARL HARBOR AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, DECEMBER 1941 -- EASY VICTORIES FOR THE RISING SUN: DECEMBER 1941 TO MAY 1942 -- THE TIDE TURNS: CORAL SEA AND MIDWAY, MAY AND JUNE 1942 -- PUSHING BACK THE EMPIRE: MACARTHUR AND NIMITZ, 1942-1944 -- JAPAN DIGS IN: SAIPAN, THE BATTLE OF THE PHILIPPINE SEA, AND THE PHILIPPINES -- MACARTHUR'S RETURN TO THE PHILIPPINES -- TOKYO'S PROPAGANDA ATTEMPTS TO MAINTAIN MORALE ON THE HOMEFRONT -- THE WAR IN CHINA AND BURMA -- THE LAST STAGES: JANUARY TO JUNE, 1945-LUZON, IWO JIMA, AND OKINAWA -- CHAPTER 11 Ending the War -- JAPAN SEEKS KREMLIN HELP -- GETS THE POTSDAM DECLARATION INSTEAD -- MAJOR BLOWS TO JAPAN: HIROSHIMA AND THE SOVIET ENTRY INTO THE WAR -- ATOMIC BOMBS AND THE SOVIET ATTACK LEAD THE EMPEROR TO ACT -- STALIN'S ATTEMPT TO INVADE JAPAN BEFORE THE OCCUPATION BEGINS -- AFTERMATH OF WAR -- Appendix: Romanization of Chinese Names -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Stars and stripes across the Pacific [[electronic resource] ] : the United States, Japan, and Asia/Pacific region, 1895-1945 / / William F. Nimmo
