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SUGGESTED SEQUENCE OF LEARNING ACTIVITIES,
INCLUDING THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER RESOURCES:
• Students will examine maps, cartoons, and posters and individually and in groups. Analyze these to
draw conclusions about the nature of Japanese imperialism.
• Using the internet, students will research terms, such as Nationalism, Militarism, and Imperialism,
associated with Japanese imperialism and present their fi ndings to the class.
• Students will identify specifi c imperialistic acts of the Japanese government beginning with the First
Sino-Japanese War in 1894 and including events in the early 20th century.
• Students will go to the online site http://www.asia-wwii.org/history.html. Read “Setting the Stage:
Imperialism, Racism, and Autocracy (1895-1930).” Write a response and discuss their responses in
groups.
• Students will examine Japanese aggression against the Chinese beginning with the September 18,
1931, invasion of Manchuria and concluding with their examination of the Marco Polo Bridge
incident of July 7, 1937, after which Japan attacked and occupied portions of China.
• Students will examine Japan’s expansion in the Pacifi c beginning with the attacks in 1940 on French
Indochina (Vietnam) and the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).
• Students will consider how geography impacted Japan’s military strategies.
• Students will consider the ethical and moral consequences of imperialism.
• Students will examine Japanese aggression in the Pacifi c against the U. S. at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on
December 7, 1941and against the Philippines on December 8, 1941, and against the British in Hong
Kong, Singapore, and Malaya (Malaysia) on December 8, 1941, and Burma in January 1942.
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