Question

Please help me answer these questions on the Bataan Death March?

Answer 1

1. How did the leaders responsible for the event explain their involvement? What was
the purpose of their actions?

2. What impact did the decisions and actions have on the leaders responsible? Did
their power increase or decrease as a result? Did they face repercussions for their
actions? Explain. Consider both the long and short-term impacts.

3. How did the event impact the group(s) targeted? Consider the long and short-term
impacts.

4. How did the event affect the rest of the nation? How did the event affect the
international community? Consider the long and short-term impacts.

Answer 2

In 1946, General Homma was held responsible for the brutal treatment of the soldiers. He was tried, convicted, and executed that same year. Testimonies of the survivors of the incident helped to convict the general of his war crimes

Answer 3

Okay, he was on the Japanese side right? Did he do anything to explain his involvement?

Answer 4

Yes -When Lt. General Masahuro Homma took the soldiers prisoner, he discovered that there were many more men than he had anticipated, and he was unable to transport all of them by truck to the prison camp in San Fernando. The only way to get the men to the camp was to make them march the 70 miles

Answer 5

The Japanese High Command advised him that it should only require a few days, but the men taken as prisoners of war were not in good health and were malnourished. That set the stage for an onslaught of inexcusable brutality.

Answer 6

Okay that helps me with 2 and 3, but I still don't know what to put for 1 and 4

Answer 7

the Japanese were flush with victory over the foreign meddlers they had been contending with for so many years, and were ready to show that they were the superior power in Asia. They committed random beatings and killings of all kinds. They killed men without provocation, or if a guard felt that someone had looked at him the wrong way, he was at liberty to bayonet him to death. If a prisoner was found with a souvenir, he was shot immediately because his executioners assumed that the only way to obtain such an item was to kill a Japanese soldier

Answer 8

Ok _During the Bataan Death March about 10,000 Filipino and American soldiers died.

The relationship between the Philippine's and America became stronger because they now saw themselves as equals.
The American defenders of Corregidor surrendered and were forced to march inland

Answer 9

Okay thank you, but I'm still a little bit confused on 1. How did the leaders responsible for the event explain their involvement? What was the purpose of their actions?

Answer 10

How did the leaders responsible for the event explain their involvement on the Bataan Death March?

Answer 11

Oh nevermind I got it now. Thanks!

Answer 12

:) All your answers are above :) Good luck !