Atomic Bomb Socratic Seminar
Historical Background Information
- Atomic Bomb History: https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/atomic-bomb-history
- This Day in History - Hiroshima bombing: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima
- This Day in History - Nagasaki bombing: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-nagasaki
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombing Timeline: https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-bombing-timeline
- Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with some first person accounts: https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/bombings-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-1945
- The Manhattan Project - An Interactive History with a list of subtopics students can click on: https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/events.htm
- Harry S. Truman's Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (shows 4 different options Truman had): https://www.nps.gov/articles/trumanatomicbomb.htm
- "The Hiroshima Bombing Didn't Just End WWII -- It kickstarted the Cold War": https://www.history.com/news/hiroshima-nagasaki-bombing-wwii-cold-war
- Choices - Truman, Hirohito, and the Atomic Bomb: http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-15-3-b-choices-truman-hirohito-and-the-atomic-bomb
- Opinions About Hiroshima 70 years later: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/08/04/70-years-after-hiroshima-opinions-have-shifted-on-use-of-atomic-bomb/
- Harry Truman's press release on August 6, 1945: https://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/documents/index.php?documentdate=1945-08-06&documentid=59&studycollectionid=abomb&pagenumber=1
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki Accounts: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Hiroshima/index.shtml
- Schoolboy's Eyewitness Account of Hiroshima: http://time.com/3977924/hiroshima-atomic-eye-witness/
- Seeing the Horror of Hiroshima: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4787714
- After the Bomb - Survivors Share their Stories: http://time.com/after-the-bomb/
Document Analysis Packet
Atomic Bomb Socratic Seminar Document Packet.pdf |