Manchuria: Why / How did the League of Nations fail?

The focus of this lesson is to build upon the failures of the LON in Manchuria and fits into the bigger picture of ‘To What Extent Was The League of Nations a Success’? The lesson’s purpose is to introduce the impact of Japan’s Decision to invade Manchuria.

**Hook: **students are handed hook sheet as they enter to instantly complete focusing around recalling 5 key facts about the reasons behind Japan’s decision and its impact on LON + to complete a re-call source question with as much detail as possible. Teacher introduces the lessons intention.

Starter: After watching a consolidation video about the invasion (summary video) (embedded into the PP) the teacher received feedback to re-call knowledge.
Main Task 1: Students are provided with an A3 impact sheet where they are to highlight all of the failures of the LON and to then further explain why / how these were a failure. (Alternative task suggested in the PP description).

Main task 2: students are then to apply their contextual knowledge to evaluating a source of evidence for usefulness (Layers of inference) students then compare their responses to a WAGOLL response where they are to highlight where the candidate has used details of the source / own knowledge to address the question.

Students are then to use this skill to work upon a different source of evidence themselves and answer the usefulness question (supplied in the inference booklet)
Plenary: Teacher poses question on the board ‘What was the most significant failure of the League dealing with the Manchuria Crisis 1931? Various answers are printed off and placed around the room.; students are challenged to go and stand by their opinion for the correct response and justify it (all explained in the PP description).

**All videos embedded / descriptions and prompts included in the PP description. **