À l’aube d’un siècle Pacifique : les États-Unis et le Japon durant la Première Guerre mondiale

Abstract

Historians of US-Japan relations typically describe the First World War as an era of growing bilateral tensions that ultimately laid the foundation for the Pacific War. But the inward turn of European power between 1914 and 1918 helped deepen US-Japan economic ties. And Japan’s active participation in the new American-led peace after 1918 intensified bilateral political cooperation through the 1920s. From the vantage point of 1941, the First World War looks like nothing more than a prelude to World War II. From the perspective of our own era, however, the 1910s and 20s mark the institutional foundation for a new Asia-Pacific world.

Keywords

• World War I
• Japan
• Asia-Pacific
• Trade
• Reform