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Hiroshima Lesson Plan

Hiroshima Lesson Plan. Review of WWII. WWII lasted from 1939-1945. The United States entered the war after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The war consisted of the Axis Powers, Allied Forces, and the Neutral Powers. On September 8, 1943, Italy surrendered.

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Hiroshima Lesson Plan

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  1. Hiroshima Lesson Plan

  2. Review of WWII • WWII lasted from 1939-1945. • The United States entered the war after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. • The war consisted of the Axis Powers, Allied Forces, and the Neutral Powers. • On September 8, 1943, Italy surrendered. • The German Instrument of Surrender was signed on May 7, 1945. • On July 26, 1945, the United States, along with two other countries, released the Potsdam Declaration insisting on Japan’s unconditional surrender, but Japan refused to surrender.

  3. Leaflets • For months, the United States dropped millions of leaflets over Japan warning citizens of air raids. There were many aerial bombings, but none that compared to the damage caused by “Little Boy.” • Anyone caught with a leaflet was arrested by the Japanese government.

  4. Hiroshima • The atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. • John Hersey uses a journalistic approach to describe in detail what transpired before, during, and after the bomb’s detonation. • 100,000 people died and countless others suffered injuries. • On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb (“Fat Man”) on Nagasaki. • Japan announced their surrender on August 15, 1945. They signed The Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945, which ended WWII.

  5. Predict-O-Gram • Chance • Private hospital • Dr. Terufumi Sasaki • Mission house • B-29 Raid • Atomic Bomb • Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto • Dr. Masakazu Fujii • East Asia Tin Works • Noiseless flash • East Parade Ground • Unloading a cart • Confusion • Wide Fire Lanes • Hatsuyo Nakamura • Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge • Hospial corridor • Toshinki Sasaki • Watching a neighbor • Kitchen

  6. Characters • Miss Toshinki Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just turned her head to chat with the girl at the next desk. • Dr. Masakazu Fujii, a physician, had just sat down to read the paper on the porch of his private hospital. • Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a tailor’s widow, was watching a neighbor from her kitchen window. • Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest, lay on a cot in the mission house reading a Jesuit magazine. • Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, a young surgeon, walked along a hospital corridor with a blood specimen for a Wasserman test. • The Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, was about to unload a cart of clothes at a rich man’s home in the suburbs.

  7. War Activity Yes Switzerland NO

  8. Question 1 Do you believe that the United States was justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

  9. Question 2 Is the United States guilty of crimes against humanity with the use of the atomic bomb?

  10. Question 3 Does the United States have a moral obligation to compensate victims in Hiroshima?

  11. i Quote “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” Nelson Mandela

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