Japan's Pacific Campaign

Focus  Q 1 - Explain how Japanese expansionism led to war with the Allies in Asia. 

• The bombing of pearl harbor in Hawaii. Within two hours, the Japanese had sunk or damaged 19 ships, including 8 battleships. More than 2,300 Americabns were killed. The next day President Roosevelt addressed Congress. On December 7, 1941, congress quickly accepted President Roosevelt request for a declaration of war on japan and its allies. Textbook pg. 497

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 Focus Q 2 - What were the potential advantages and disadvantages to the "island-hop" plan? 

• One of the potential disadvantage of the "island-hop" was that although american had more warships then Japan, but the potential advantage was that Japan was better equipped and seasoned to deal with any battle at sea.

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 Focus Q 3 - Why do you think the Japanese changed their approach from trying to win the support of the colonial peoples to acting as conquerors?

• I think they just assumed it would be more effictive to use force, but unfortunately the force was actually brutal behavior.

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Rape of Nanjing Prompt

This past week you have studied much of what happened during the Rape of Nanjing. Writing Prompt: In your opinion, what justice should be applied, if any, to the Japanese soldiers who participated in in the atrocities. Are they responsible for their own actions or was their indoctrination (brainwashing) ultimately responsible? Your answer should be in the form of a paragraph. Due tomorrow. 


I think the justice that should be applied to Japanese soldiers who participated in the atrocities should be a sentence to death. They sentence to death should be the same way the women and men were killed. They should be tortuer or be shot and hang. I think it was indoctrination of there ruler. The ruler told the Japanese soldiers that the Chinese people were nothing, they were just a piece of trash and they could do what ever they wanted to do.

Hitler's Lightening War Focus Questions (16.1)

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A major event that led to WWII would be Germany's invasion of Poland. This was Hitlers first test of Germany's newest military strategy. It was called the blizkrieg that meant lightning war. But before this Hitler and stalin signed a pact for ten years that they would secretly dived poland between them. ( page. 491)






2. Was Germany justified in attacking cargo ship? Explain. 

I think Germany was justified in attacking the US cargo ships.The U.S navy was escorting British ships carrying U.S army. In response, Hitler ordered his submarines to sink any cargo ships they met. But every ship took the risk.



             
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3.What factors do you think a country's leaders consider when declaring whether to surrender or fight?

 I think the factors a country's leaders consider when declaring whether to surrender or fight is to see if they have the right resource and the correct of men to fight.

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