This lesson contains 18 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 2 videos.
Lesson duration is: 45 min
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Today
Paragraph 3.2 - War in the Pacific - part two
Slide 1 - Slide
Discuss what the short & long term consequences of the atomic bombs on cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki were.
Lesson Goal
Slide 2 - Slide
What was last lesson about?
Slide 3 - Open question
Pearl Harbor
7 december 1941
Japan wants power in the pacific
Japan is unhappy with the trading route blockades by the US
Slide 4 - Slide
Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbour?
A
Due to an offense made by to the Americans to the emperor of Japan
B
Due to the fact that the American fleet was only big enough to prevent Japanse expansion in South-East Asia
C
Due to the Dutch and American oil boycott (and metal and steel)
D
Both C and D combined (without oil no expansion was possible)
Slide 5 - Quiz
The phase between 1942-45 on the Pacific front is known as...
A
island hopping
B
hopscotch
C
cruising
D
touring
Slide 6 - Quiz
Secondly, now that Germany had surrendered, the Soviet Union wanted to declare war on Japan as well. The Americans wanted to prevent this: They were afraid that the Soviet Union would spread communism in the Asian countries they liberated from Japan.
So, on 6th August 1945, the new president of the United States Harry Truman gave the order to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A second one was dropped on Nagasaki three days later. In the end, more than 200,000 people died as a result of these attacks. The Allied powers refused to accept a truce and Japan therefore unconditionally surrendered on 2nd September 1945. The Second World War was finally over.
The Enola Gay dropped the "Little Boy" atomic bomb on Hiroshima. In this photograph are five of the aircraft's ground crew with mission commander Paul Tibbets in the center.
a Japanese survivor of the atomic bomb watches over the devastated city of Hiroshima
Slide 7 - Slide
Give two reasons why the USA decided to use their atomic bomb
Slide 8 - Open question
Short term consquences
Slide 9 - Slide
www.bbc.com
Slide 10 - Link
Name 3 short term consequences of the atomic bombs
Slide 11 - Open question
Slide 12 - Video
Slide 13 - Video
In you opinion, was the use of the atomic bomb in WWII justified?
Yes
No
Slide 14 - Poll
Long Term Consquences
Slide 15 - Slide
Name 3 long term consequences of the atomic bombs
Slide 16 - Open question
nuclearsecrecy.com
Slide 17 - Link
Discuss what the short & long term consequences of the atomic bombs on cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki were