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Trace the growth of militarism in Japan in the inter-war years. What international reaction did it provoke?

  • UPSC 1997
  • World Wars

Japanese militarism between the wars grew not from a single coup but from a gradual erosion of civilian authority by the army and navy, culminating in outright military dominance by the late 1930s.

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  • Structural Roots: The Army's Constitutional Autonomy
  • Economic and Ideological Drivers
  • The Manchurian Incident as Militarism's Decisive Assertion (1931)
  • Domestic Political Violence and the Military's Ascendancy
  • Escalation: From Manchuria to War with China
  • International Reaction

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