Feb. 28-Mar 1

EQ:
Why did the United States use atomic weapons on Japan? 

CW:
Atomic Bomb Debate (using atomic bomb docs)
video clip from The War--bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945) 
video clip: Little Boy is dropped on Hiroshima
small group activity: How should we remember the dropping of the atomic bomb? 
V-J Day--Aug. 15, 1945
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video clips from "White Light; Black Rain"----HBO online
02:26--6:38
11:13--15:55--Japanese mindset
18:03--26:00--flight crews/scientists
27:00---??-Nagasaki victims
42:33---53:10
video clip: Enola Gay controversy at the Smithsonian--1994
President Obama visits Hiroshima
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discussion on Japanese and German occupations post-WWII
video clip: Nov 1945-Nuremberg Trials
UN created in 1945
video clip on the UN
Operation Crossroads--1946 clips from Atomic Cafe
video clip: atomic vets


HW:
Read 22:2 from the textbook
containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Chinese revolution
Korean War