1. Devastation and World Dominance
The Bombing of Japan
Devastation and World Dominance

2. Motivations Save American Lives (ostensibly) - Potsdam Declaration
Russia in Manchuria
- Would Japan Have Surrendered Anyway?
American Racism

4. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Fission Bomb, “Little Boy”, Dropped on Hiroshima
- 66,000 Dead 69,000 Injured
- 4 Mile Destroyed
Fusion Bomb, “Fat Man”, Dropped on Nagasaki
- Three Days Later
- 39,000 Dead 25,000 Injured
- 1.5 Miles Destroyed

6. Discussion Activity!: Why Did the United States Drop the Bomb?

7. Effects on Japan Black Rain/ Fallout - High Rates of Cancer
Occupation by United States
Censorship

8. Hibakusha

9. Effects on US and the World
U.S. As the World Superpower
- Was It a Major Reason For Dropping the Bomb?
Soviet Union Race to Acquire Bomb
Nuclear Bomb Never Used Again