1. How did relations with Western nations influence Japanese FP?

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Lesson Objectives
​To examine how events in Europe and relations with Western powers influenced Japanese foreign policy between 1938-1939

Lesson Tasks

1. Read and make notes from Pearson textbook pages 61-70
2. Complete Activities 4-6.
   1. What impact did the Tientsin Incident have on Anglo-Japanese and US-Japanese relations?
      
   2. Why would the Tripartite Pact worry the USA?
      
   3. What was the significance of the defeat to the USSR at the Battle of Nomonhan for Japanese foreign policy?
      
   4. Why was the US so isolationist before 1937?
      
   5. In what ways was Roosevelt's 1937 Quarantine Speech a significant turning point?
      
   6. How did the US reverse its policy of neutrality after 1939?
      

​Essential Readings

1. Calvocoressi, P. (2001). The Penguin History of the Second World War, Chapter 13: The War Changes its Character
2. ​Hanneman, M. (2014). Japan Faces the World, 61-64
3. Jansen, M.B. (2000). The Making of Modern Japan, 625-632

2. What were the final stages of the move to global war?

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Lesson Objectives
​To identify the key short-term events that led to the outbreak of war in 1941

​Lesson Tasks

1. ​Read and make notes from Pearson textbook pages 70-80
2. Complete Activities 7-9
3. Draw a timeline from late 1940 to December 1941, listing all the major events both in East Asia and in the USA and Europe. Next to each major event, make an analytical comment about the significance of each event, for example:
   1. 'June 1941 - Operation Barbarossa: this made Japan feel more secure on its northern border and able to consider southward expansion. The US warning to Japan not to invade the USSR increased tension between the two nations.'
4. Which was the key turning point after which war between Japan and the West became inevitable?
5. Were diplomatic attempts to avoid war likely to be successful?
6. Was war made more likely because of events in Europe?

​Essential Readings

1. Buruma, I. (2004). Inventing Japan 1853-1964, 111-128
2. Calvocoressi, P. (2001). The Penguin History of the Second World War, Chapter 14: The Negotiation Preceding War
3. Gordon, A. (2003). A Modern History of Japan, 207-209
4. Hanneman, M. (2014). Japan Faces the World, 66-70
5. Jansen, M.B. (2000). The Making of Modern Japan, 632-642

3. Who, or what, was to blame for the outbreak of war?

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Lesson Objectives
​To identify and evaluate different perspectives on the outbreak of war

Lesson Tasks

1. Download, read, and make notes from the Lesson PowerPoint
   
2. ​Read and make notes from textbook pages 81-83
3. Make a table, summarising the views of historians on who/what is to blame for the war, including the reasons they give for their opinion. Which historian do you agree with the most?
4. Make an essay plan for this question: 'Using the sources and your own knowledge, to what extent would you agree that Japan attacked Pearl Harbour because of the trade embargo imposed by the United States?'
5. Make an essay plan for this question: 'To what extent would you agree that economic factors were the main causes of the Pacific War?'