In WW1, the Japanese army only had to clean up what it could get from the German colonial possessions. Tsingtao was its biggest engagement and went well. It had not cost the lives of countless Japanese soldiers.
Contrast that to WW2, where you have an army that has been fighting in China since 1931 and then was thrust into the jungles of southeast Asia and the Pacific in a bitter fight for survival against the British and Americans. When you have spilled your blood, you are less predisposed to the gallantries of "civilized" fighting.
<span>And then you have the precedent of these exact same foes having turned down Japan's </span>Racial Equality Proposal<span> in 1920. The Japanese understood that the westerners were still looking at them as inferior. That resentment had time to fester in the intervening 20 years, among the ranks of the Japanese army officers.</span>
<span>Last but not least, in the interwar years the entire world saw a slide to totalitarianism, with Japan being no exception
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The populism movement took hold because the use of the gold standard was causing many people to lose money - especially farmers. Farmers were having a lot of trouble because there were no regulations put in place to help them not produce too much it too little. Also, the populism movement promoted the regulation of railroad prices. That way, farmers could ship their produce at cheaper price points.
The answer is the third one: it promoted reforms to help struggling farmers
Railroads had a very large positive impact on <span>western settlement in the late 1800s</span> in the US, since this made it far easier and more effective to transport both humans and goods across large bodies of land.
The assembly line reversed the process of automobile manufacture, but <span>cars were individually crafted by teams of skilled workmen.</span>
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