IB History - Causes of Japanese Expansion

A single complete lesson in PowerPoint format that is design for a mixed IB HL/SL class that is doing the Move To Global War as its Paper 1 Prescribed Subject. All electronic resources are linked in the presentation and textbook are listed so you can find them online for purchase. The lesson begins with a playing card poker simulation to teach students about the internal weaknesses in China during the Warlord Years and how this helped feel Japan’s desire to expand. Students are then asked to either do some silent reading or to view a YouTube clip on Japanese expansion in the 1930s. The lesson concludes with a homework assignment tasking students with writing two Paper 1 style 3 mark comprehension questions that are taken from Keely Rogers and Jo Thomas, The Move To Global War, London: Oxford University Press, 2015, p. 34.