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Objectives

Objectives. I can explain the basic fighting and military goals in the Pacific Theatre. I can explain Japan’s rise to power and the consequences of their takeover in Asia, specifically the Rape of Nanking. Essential Question/Standard.

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Objectives

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  1. Objectives I can explain the basic fighting and military goals in the Pacific Theatre. I can explain Japan’s rise to power and the consequences of their takeover in Asia, specifically the Rape of Nanking.

  2. Essential Question/Standard How did the Japanese rise to power? What were the consequences of their takeover? (Page 133)

  3. Japan’s Rise to Power WWI- gained power in China and Pacific Russo-Japanese War- dominant power in Korea and Manchuria Gradually became a military dictatorship

  4. Japan vs. China 1931- Fighting in Manchuria Little response from League of Nations, withdrew 1937- At war with China

  5. Involvement in SE Asia Sanctions from US = turn to SE Asia for raw materials, lead to decision to attack Pearl Harbor

  6. Rape of Nanking Japanese atrocities committed in Nanking in 1938/1938 300,000 deaths

  7. Comfort Women Young women from Korea, China, Philippines, forced to become slave-prostitutes for the Japanese soldiers

  8. Comfort Women Video Clip- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-UwU1-RVWs

  9. Unit 731 Carried out medical experiments on slave laborers, women and children

  10. Unit 731 Video Clip- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7yDOXGmtro

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