3. Students learn about:
Growth of Political Tensions
- economic and political issues in the Pacific by 1937
- Japanese foreign policy
- US and British policies in the Pacific
- Strategic and political reasons for bombing Pearl Harbour

4. Course of the Pacific War
Students learn about:
Course of the Pacific War
- Japanese advance and the impact of the fall of the Philippines, Singapore, Burma and he East Indies
- Turning points in the war: Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, Battle of Guadalcanal, New Guinea
- Strategies used by Allied forces against Japan

5. Students learn about:
3) Civilians at War
- Social, political and economic effects on civilians in occupied territories in South-East Asia.
- Life under Occupation: collaboration and resistance, the use of slave labour
- The effect of the war on the home fronts in Japan and Australia.

6. Students learn about:
4) End of the Conflict
- Reasons for the use of the A-bomb and the subsequent controversy over its use
- Reasons for the Japanese defeat
- War Crimes Tribunals and the status of the Emperor

7. 1) Growth of Pacific Tensions
Economic and Political Issues in the Pacific by 1937:
Colonialism in the Asia-Pacific region
European imperialism in China
Civil war in China
US imperialism in the Philippines
British imperialism in Burma
French imperialism in Indochina
Japanese imperialism in Asia-Pacific region

8. Growth of Pacific Tensions
Economic and Political Issues in the Pacific by 1937:
Colonialism in the Asia-Pacific region
- European drive for markets, raw materials & resources, and investment
- established colonies to expand their wealth & national prestige
- Asian subjects became resentful – they were exploited as cheap labour, resources were pillaged & lack of self-determination.
Glossary:
Imperial: characteristic of the rule of a state over colonial dependencies
Self-determination: the ability of a nation to decide on its own form of government, independent of other nations.

9. Growth of Pacific Tensions
Economic and Political Issues in the Pacific by 1937:
Colonialism in the Asia-Pacific region
- Asian nationalist groups – rid European imperialism & secure independence.
- Many believed communism was the framework/ideology to follow.
Glossary:
nationalism: concern for the advancement or independence of one’s own nation.
communism: an economic and social system in which all property is owned by the community or the state/.