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What do you see?
What do you think the man is feeling?
As an American citizen in 1945, what would be your reaction to this?
Retrieved from: http://www.express.co.uk/news/history/596252/Hiroshima-Nagasaki-atomic-bomb-United-Statesnuclear
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What is this picture of?
Why is this picture important?
What your reaction be if you saw this in person?
Retrieved from: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/rare-photo-of-the-mushroom-cloud-overhiroshima-discovered-in-a-former-japanese-elementary-school/267042/
Questions:
What did he see?
What are his feelings?
Why is his account important?
What about this source makes it believable?
Based on the eyewitness account, how is this event compare to other accounts or information
you have heard off?
Why/why not is it important that the witness shares more than just the bomb dropping?
Retrieved from: http://www.wtj.com/archives/hiroshima.htm
Questions:
What is this document?
What is the purpose?
As a U.S. citizen, how would you react this this?
Retrieved from: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/documents/index.php?
documentdate=1945-08-06&documentid=59&studycollectionid=abomb&pagenumber=1
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What is the importance of Japans surrender?
Do you think Japan would have surrendered if the bomb was not dropped? Why?
Retrieved from: www.presidentialtimeline.org/#/object/82
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Who is the targeted audience?
What is the U.S. telling the Japanese?
What is the tone of this document?
Retrieved from: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/documents/index.php?
documentdate=1945-08-06&documentid=6-2&studycollectionid=abomb&pagenumber=1
Questions:
Who is MacArthur?
How soon after the bombing was this published?
How important is Japans surrender?
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q=harry+truman+announces+end+of+wwii&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS670US670&hl=enUS&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwje27Gz2bLhUW4GMKHSnfBKwQ_AUIBygB&biw=375&bih=591#imgrc=9yFB5Vi9Qa2u1M%3A
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