1. The Rising Sun in the East
Let us do some Blue Book Prep!

2. Blue Book Prep: In your groups of three, read the paragraph
Highlight/underline/mark in a manner where you can identify the following elements
Introduction, transition, evidence, analysis, concession, and conclusion
Once everyone is done, we will review your answers as a class

3. Day of the Blue Book: Room Location Materials Needed
Student ID Number not Name
Time allotted
Next steps
LAST MINUTE TIPS!

4. Militarist Gain Power in Japan:
During the 1920s, Japan
Reduced the power of the military
Passed laws to give all men the right to vote
Allowed multiple political parties

5. Militarist Gain Power in Japan:
This all ended with the Great Depression
Military leaders said Japanese expansion throughout Asia would solve their economic problems
Constitutional monarchy existed but led by aloof emperor

6. Japan Expand their Empire:
In 1931, began creating their vast empire
Started with Manchuria ( )
Next, attacked China ( )
Called their Empire “Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”
Was not prosperous for all

7. According to Japan’s military, how would Japan solve its problems?

8. Territorial expansion throughout Asia

9. Rape of Nanking:
Japan took the capital of China at the time called Nanking
Killing contests were held
Chinese soldiers were hunted down and killed and left in mass graves
Tens of thousands of women were raped
Bodies littered the streets for months
⅓ of the city was burned and looted

12. Survivor’s Account Video

13. Trouble in the Pacific:
In 1940, Japan joined the Axis powers (Germany and Italy)
Hitler called them “honorary Aryans”
In 1941, Japan furthered its empire by taking French Indochina (modern day Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia)

15. U.S. Response: U.S. against aggressive expansion
Final straw was Japan’s move into Indochina
FDR froze Japanese funds in the U.S. and blockaded the sale of oil to Japan
80% of Japan’s oil came from the U.S.
Without oil, Japan would not be able to maintain its empire and it would collapse

16. What was the name of the Japanese Empire?

17. Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

18. Trouble in the Pacific:
Need to replace these raw materials
Take territory that has those raw materials
In reaction to this, Japan expected the U.S. to declare war

19. Trouble in the Pacific:
In 1941, General Hideki Tojo became the Japanese prime minister
Wanted to keep expansion policies but keep U.S. neutral

20. Group Discussion: In your groups of three, answer the question below
If you were Japan, what would you do?
If you were the U.S., would you keep this ultimatum? Why or why not?
Once everyone is done, we will review your answers as a class