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1917 6 April: United States enters World War I. 2 November: Lansing–Ishii
Agreement is concluded.
1918 19 August: U.S. troops join their Japanese counterparts in
launching the Siberian Intervention
1919 4 May: May Fourth Movement in Beijing. 28 June: Paris Peace
Conference concludes with the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty.
1921 11 November: Washington Conference convenes.
1922 6 February: Five Power Treaty ends naval arms race in the Pacific.
13 November: In Ozawa v. United States, the United States
Supreme Court decides that first-generation Japanese immigrants are
ineligible for U.S. citizenship.
1924 1 July: Oriental Exclusion Act, part of 1924 Immigration Bill,
is approved by United States Congress.
1926 25 December: Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan.
1927 20 June: Geneva Naval Conference convenes.
1929 The Japanese American Citizens League is founded in California.
1930 21 January: London Naval Conference convenes. 14 November:
Hamaguchi Osachi is shot by an ultra right-wing nationalist.
1931 18 September: Manchurian Incident begins.
1932 7 January: U.S. Secretary of State Henry Stimson announces
non-recognition of forcible changes of status quo in China. 18 January:
Japanese residents in Shanghai are attacked, sparking the Shanghai
Incident. 18 February: Japan proclaims the independence of
Manchukuo (formerly Manchuria, China). June: Joseph Grew arrives
in Tokyo as United States ambassador to Japan. He served until the attack
on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. November: Franklin Delano
Roosevelt is elected president of the United States.
1933 24 February: After defending Japan’s actions in Manchuria at
a Special Assembly meeting of the League of Nations in Geneva, Ambassador
Yosuke Matsuoka and the entire Japanese delegation stage a
walkout. 27 March: Japan formally announces its withdrawal from the
League of Nations.