Essential Question: Why did Japan start a war in the Pacific?
- Preview:
- Why did Japan become an imperial power?
- Age of Imperialism
- Political Modernisation
- Industrialisation
- Understanding Goals:
- Why was Japan aggressive in the 1920s and 1930s?
- Why did Japan start a Pacific War?
- What are the assumptions in these questions?
- What are some evidence to support the assumptions?
- What are the points of views to this question?
- Performances:
- Work in groups of 3s to generate your responses to these questions
- Watch "Horrors in the East" to supplement your knowledge of Japan in the inter-war years.
