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Minds On – Options?

Explore the different options the US President and his staff might have considered to end the war with Japan. Analyze the potential impact of each option and consider the ethical and strategic implications.

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Minds On – Options?

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  1. Minds On – Options? • We all know how the US ended the war with Japan. If you were the US President and his staff, what other options might have been on the table?

  2. Intro Task: You Decide • As a class we will read the 4 options that the US had to end the war. • On your own answer the questions on the back. • Think/Share with your partner. • Discuss as a class.

  3. ACCEPT A CONDITIONAL SURRENDER FROM JAPAN • You have been asking for an unconditional surrender, but it is obvious to you now that the Japanese will not surrender if you harm the emperor. If you tell them that they can keep the emperor they might give up. Up until now, your goal has always been the TOTAL defeat of Japan. Are you willing to change your plan?? Will you look weak? • Do you consider option #1 an “un-American” option? Use a specific detail from the selection to support your answer.

  4. FULL INVASION OF JAPAN’S MAIN ISLAND • You’ve always known that this would be inevitable. Your experiences at Normandy and the invasions of islands in the Pacific, such as Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, have shown you that you can accomplish this successfully but at a very great cost. The thousands of thousands of men you have lost to other similar invasions have caused you to look for other options. • If you were re-writing option #2, what is a good word to replace “inevitable?” Do you believe invading Japan is inevitable, and why or why not would you support that option?

  5. WAIT FOR THE SOVIETS • This would allow you to hit Japan from two directions. At Potsdam, Stalin guaranteed to you that the Russian Red Army would be ready to strike in September 1945. You still don’t completely trust Stalin. The history with the Russians is that they have made territorial demands in Europe and they will probably make them in the Pacific if they come to help out. Are you willing to accept a Communist presence in the Pacific as well as Europe? • State the main idea of option #3 and provide a specific detail that supports it.

  6. DROP THE ATOMIC BOMB • While at Potsdam, you are told that scientists have successfully developed and tested a single bomb that can destroy an entire city. You are being encouraged to use this weapon to avoid all of the above options, mainly to avoid more loss of American lives. It has only been tested once, and the full effects of the bomb are relatively unknown. If you use this bomb, where would you use it • If you were the US President, would you use the atomic bomb as discussed in option #4? Provide reasons to support your answer.

  7. Dropping the bomb and vj day

  8. Dropping the Atomic Bombs • On August 6th 1945 the Americans dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima • August 9th they dropped another bomb on Nagasaki • The Japanese are then compelled to surrender.

  9. The pilot was Paul Tibbets • The plane that dropped the bomb was the Enola Gay • It was named after the pilot’s mother

  10. The Bombs • Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki • Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima

  11. The Damage to Hiroshima The centre of the explosion was hotter than the surface of the sun!

  12. Casualties • It estimated that at Hiroshima 70,000+ died instantly – Over 250,000 died later from results of the explosion or radiation sickness • At Nagasaki over 50,000 were killed instantly with many more after as well

  13. Survivors from Hiroshima

  14. Wrap Up – Poem Analysis The Responsibility Peter Appleton I am the man who gives the word,If it should come, to use the Bomb.I am the man who spreads the wordFrom him to them if it should come.I am the man who gets the wordFrom him who spreads the word from him.I am the man who drops the BombIf ordered by the one who's heardFrom him who merely spreads the wordThe first one gives if it should come. I am the man who loads the BombThat he must drop should orders comeFrom him who gets the word passed onBy one who waits to hear from him. I am the man who makes the BombThat he must load for him to dropIf told by one who gets the wordFrom one who passes it from him.I am the man who fills the till,Who pays the tax, who foots the billThat guarantees the Bomb he makesFor him to load for him to dropIf orders come from one who getsThe word passed on to him by oneWho waits to hear it from the manWho gives the word to use the Bomb.I am the man behind it all;I am the one responsible.

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