Download Hiroshima Lesson Plan

 WWII lasted from 1939-1945.
 The United States entered the war after the Japanese attacked
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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.
 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.
 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.
 Chance
 Dr. Masakazu
 Private hospital
 Dr. Terufumi
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Sasaki
Mission house
B-29 Raid
Atomic Bomb
Reverend
Kiyoshi
Tanimoto
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 Hatsuyo
Fujii
East Asia Tin
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Works
Noiseless flash 
East Parade
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Ground
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Unloading a cart
Confusion
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Wide Fire Lanes
Nakamura
Father Wilhelm
Kleinsorge
Hospial corridor
Toshinki Sasaki
Watching a
neighbor
Kitchen
 Miss Toshinki Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the
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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.
Yes
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Do you believe that the United
States was justified in dropping
the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
Is the United States guilty of
crimes against humanity with
the use of the atomic bomb?
Does the United States have a
moral obligation to compensate
victims in Hiroshima?
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Quote
“If you want to
make peace with
your enemy, you
have to work with
your enemy. Then
he becomes your
partner.”
Nelson Mandela