Key Moments in WWII: What makes you say that?

Smithsonian Learning Lab
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Smithsonian Learning Lab
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Social Studies US History Middle School (13 to 15 years old)
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World History
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Key Moments in WWII: What makes you say that?

Using the Project Zero Visible Thinking routine "What makes you say that?," students will investigate two photographs, taken from different angles, of Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezu aboard the USS Missouri as they signed the surrender that would officially end WWII.

Tags: world war 2; world war ii; general macarthur; carl mydans; primary source; ww2; japanese instrument of surrender; potsdam declaration; inquiry strategy
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Smithsonian Learning Lab

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