Why did Japan expand into Southeast Asia?

Between the late 19th century and the early 20th century, Japan underwent rapid industrialization. In order to keep expanding, it needed control of more resources, more raw materials for its industries, and also new markets for Japanese products. Taking advantage of its superior economic  and technological might, and of its military superiority, Japan followed a progressive policy of conquest and territorial expansion: Taiwan , Korea, Manchuria , coastal China, Southeast Asia. The oil, rubber and foodstuff from Southeast Asia were also necessary for the operation of its armed forces once WWII started.

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answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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