Is there any chance that the US and or Britain might have fought Japan over the invasion of Manchuria?
Would this have reduced the effects of the depression?
Would this have reduced the effects of the depression?
Note the Panay incident. The Japanese attacked a clearly marked US vessel (a perfectly good casus belli) and the US basically backed down and accepted visibly insincere apologies. So, no, the US wouldn't go to war over Manchuria.In short... no.
To elaborate, the US was too isolationist to get involved anywhere without something substantial, at least at that time. Not to mention that the American public at large was highly unlikely to get to worked up over two groups of non white peoples butchering each other on the other side of the world.
As for the British, since the Japanese weren't getting too threatening to their posessions in the area I highly doubt that they were going to go poking their noses around in that area. Although the Brits are the more likely to get involved than the US, there is very little chance at that.
Although US or British involvement in Manchuria may have reduced the effects of the Depression somewhat, it would probably not have done enough to eliminate it or simply make it a recession.
Why would Japan's democracy survive?