Depression Era: 1930s: “Bloody Thursday” & Other Labor Strikes
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. A group of Chinese demonstrators at the waterfront in San Francisco carrying signs protesting the sale of scrap iron to Japan. December 20, 1938. Photographer unknown. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California.
In 1937, during "The Rape of Nanking," hundreds of thousands of nonmilitary Chinese citizens were killed, and Chinese women were raped and mutilated by Japanese soldiers. These Japanese atrocities and Hitler's announcement of support for Japan's racist, imperialist expansion in Asia cemented popular U.S. feeling against Japan.