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Japan Builds an Empire DBQ Assignment
Doc 1 Questions:
1. How many minerals can be mined in Japan?
2. How many minerals can be mined in China?
3. Why would Japan want access to Chinese minerals?
Doc 2A Questions:
4. Why did Japan care about the state of international trade, especially that controlled by Britain,
France, Russia and the USA?
5. How would the fact that Japan can’t trade with the USA lead them to invade Korea, China and
other Asian nations?
Doc2B Question
6. How will invading Asia help make Japan self-su cient?
Document 2C Question:
7. What do they say they will do for the people of Asia?
Doc 3 Questions:
8. What is signi cant about Japan’s use of the word “infantile” to describe Korea?
9. What does this passage imply about the current state of Korean technology?
Doc 4 Question:
10. According to Jiang Jieshi, how do the Japanese view themselves?
Doc 5 Question:
11. What are the 3 doors Hasimoto describes? Which are open & which are closed to Japan?
12. What is Hashimoto's reaction to the rest of the world condemning (disapproving) of Japan’s
actions in Manchuria?