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AGE 9. The Time of World Wars

9.3.3: The end of World War 2

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The Dutch resistance newspaper 'De Vrijheid' (right
picture) was one of the first to report in the Netherlands
about the landing in Normandy.
Use the English summary (left picture) to answer the
question.
1. Indicate, with a references to the source, how this
newspaper views D-Day.

1b. How did the writer(s) of this newspaper get the
information about D-Day?

2a. The title of the poster is: The March to Independence.
Use the LessonUp text to prove that this promise from Japan
is unreliable.

This Japanese poster distributed in the Philippines in 1942 reads (in not quite correct English):

The march to independence. The time has come. All the islands are now really on their way to independence. Join. The flags read: Complete independence. Stop the war. Listen to Japan.

2b. Think about what Japan wanted to achieve by
distributing this poster.

This Japanese poster distributed in the Philippines in 1942 reads (in not quite correct English):

The march to independence. The time has come. All the islands are now really on their way to independence. Join. The flags read: Complete independence. Stop the war. Listen to Japan.

Read the source below.

‘GUAM, Aug. 9 – Gen. Carl A. Spaatz announced today that a second atomic bomb had been dropped, this time on the city of Nagasaki, and that crew members reported “good results”. The second use of the new and terrifying secret weapon which wiped out more than 60 per cent of the city of Hiroshima and, according to the Japanese radio, killed nearly every resident of that town, occurred at noon today, Japanese time. The target today was an important industrial and shipping area with a population of about 253,000.

The great bomb, which harnesses the power of the universe to destroy the enemy by concussion, blast and fire, was dropped on the second enemy city about seven hours after the Japanese had received a political “roundhouse punch” in the form of a declaration of war by the Soviet Union.’

Fragment from an article by W.H. Lawrence, nicknamed ‘Atomic Bill’ in The New York Times, 10th August 1945.

3a. Read the source in the previous slide.
What did the crew members mean with ‘good results’?

3b. Use the source to explain why the USA chose
to drop their atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki.
Mention two reasons.

4. Do you think president Truman was right when he decided to drop an atomic bomb? Explain your answer.

(Here you practise to write arguments!)

5. The Soviet Union and the USA were allies in World War II after the Americans declared war on Japan.
Did their relationship change after Germany surrendered?
Explain your answer.

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