Hey, I'm going through some past paper essays and one question is on: Assess the impact of strategies used by the Japanese and the Allies in the Pacific from 1937-1951 (2008). Just wondering if anyone could indicate where this has come from the current syllabus/whether the syllabus changed since 2008.
These are the current syllabus dot points.
Students learn about:
1 Growth of Pacific tensions
– economic and political issues in the Pacific by 1937
– Japanese foreign policy 1937–1941
– US and British policies in the Pacific 1937–1941
– strategic and political reasons for bombing Pearl Harbour
2 Course of the Pacific War
– Japanese advance 1941–1942 and the impact of the fall of the Philippines, Singapore,
Burma and the Dutch 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 1942–1945
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
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
– Allied Occupation of Japan to 1951
I just can't see where they've taken it from.
Thank you