中國/日本

I. Project
Using this Web-Quest, students will learn about the interactions between East and West and the post-war complications caused by the struggle between Communism and Capitalism. Students will see how political maneuvering and suspicion made the complexities that caused a bemusing mix of devastation, social unrest, and economic progress involving the West, the Soviet Union, China, and an unarmed Japan in the mid to late twentieth century.

On-going questions

How did each Asian power meet the West in the given historic phase?
Explain the motivations of each power.
What was a tactic or strategy of Japan and/or China in dealing with the West that accomplished a desired goal?
What was a tactic or strategy of China and/or Japan in dealing with the West that failed to achieve a desired goal?

II. Instructions

Each historic phase is organized onto a web page and treated separately.
The Guiding questions are assigned as homework the night before. There will be ½ hour of time for each group to prepare their answer and presentation followed by up to one hour to present their results: They will be corrected/evaluated as they prepare and present. They will write a response/find, print-out, and describe a requested image on Post-it poster paper.
- (VHHS classes are 1.5 hours long; Copernican schedule)
  - Questions for groups of two to answer within their particular country (20 or more questions; one for each group of two, up to 40 students)
  - Students will have the previous night and one half-hour in class to research, analyze, and prepare their answers.
  - Students will present their findings during the last hour of class.
  - The general presentation media will be 3M poster pages for easy fixing to wall for presentation and display.
  - Unassigned questions will be answered by the instructor (board or hand-out (time permitting)). Instructor will also include information not in the notes or questions, but important to understanding.
  - Students may work alone if they wish by having parent make a written request. Assignment will be given only after all groups have been assigned.

III. Guiding Concept(s):

10.10 Students analyze instances of nation-building in the contemporary world in at least two of the following regions or countries: ….. China.

Understand the challenges in the regions, including their geopolitical, cultural, military, and economic significance and the international relationships in which they are involved.

Describe the recent history of the regions, including political divisions and systems, key leaders, religious issues, natural features, resources, and population patterns.

Discuss the important trends in the regions today and whether they appear to serve the cause of individual freedom and democracy.

IV. Web Guiding Questions:

Do your research today/tonight, you only have an half-hour to prepare your presentation in class
Guiding Questions: (be sure to answer all the WH questions (who, what, when, where, why, how) in your assigned question whenever possible)

Event	Japan 日本	China 中國
	What was the effect of Japan’s defunct Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere message on Asians?	Why did the Chinese Communists have more popular support?
	Why wasn’t the Japanese emperor prosecuted for war crimes?	Why did the Chinese Communists win? (What was the new name of Communist China? Who was their leader? Who was his mentor/idol?)
	What happened to the Japanese scientists who did illegal human testing on prisoners and civilians during the war? What kind of experiments?	What happened to the Kuomintang? Who was their leader?
	Why were the “comfort women” unable to win reparations from Japan?	What was Mao Zedong’s policy towards the capitalist western powers?
	Why is the Yasukuni Shrine still an emotional symbol between East Asia and Japan?	How did Mao Zedong go about reforming China politically?
	What made Japan’s “Economic Miracle” of the late 1960s to the early 1990s possible (policy, technology).	How did Mao Zedong go about reforming China economically?
	List Japan’s political parties. Which party has had the political majority since the end of the American Occupation in the 1950s?	What successes did the economic reforms have?
	What are two to three noted Japanese export companies related in each of the following sectors: banking/trading/insurance, aviation, automotive, computers, electronics, food and beverage, manufacturing, cameras/optics. List their products.	What failures did the economic reforms have?
		Why did China and the Soviet Union turn against each other?
		What was the purpose of the Cultural Revolution? What were its effects?
		Why did the PRC government allow US President Nixon to begin diplomacy and visit in the early 1970s?
		What reforms did Deng Xiao Peng begin after Mao’s death?

V. Web Resources: These lists are designed in the order of the questions, but many pages are also helpful to other questions as well as yours. Be sure to look at as many pages in the vicinity of where yours are. Often, you will find your topic mentioned in the URL address (i.e.: "Meiji Restoration: http://www.duke.edu/~spartner/hst143b/Meiji%20Restoration/meijirestoration.htm)

--J. Victor Ortiz, Social Science, Verdugo Hills Multi-media Communications Center, LAUSD, Tujunga, California

10.10 Students analyze instances of nation-building in the contemporary world in at least two of the following regions or countries: ….. China.

Why wasn’t the Japanese emperor prosecuted for war crimes?

What made Japan’s “Economic Miracle” of the late 1960s to the early 1990s possible (policy, technology).