You Decide: Should Truman Have Used Atomic Weapons? | Interactive Lesson

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President Truman atomic weapons bombs Curtis LeMay Japan Hiroshima Nagasaki World War II WWII WW2 War in the Pacific conventional weapons atomic scientists Leslie Groves Manhattan Project Interim Committee Leo Szilard Szilard petition Trinity test Alamogordo Los Alamos New Mexico radiation radioactive fallout firebombing napalm Tokyo interactive lesson ushist22
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History-Social Science
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Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12
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Classroom Teacher / Educator
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You Decide: Should Truman Have Used Atomic Weapons? | Interactive Lesson

Weigh in on the debate over whether President Truman should have ordered the use of atomic weapons against Japan in August 1945. In this interactive lesson, students use the information available to Truman at the time, presented in a variety of primary and secondary sources, to learn about three major issues that influenced his decision making. At the end of the lesson, students will respond to the lesson’s essential question: Was President Truman correct in his decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
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PBS Learning Media

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