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In this lesson students will be introduced to important background information on the dropping of the atomic bombs.

Students will be researching and analyzing the internment of Japanese Americans on the west coast of the US during WWII.

Students will analyze eyewitness descriptions of the firebombing of Tokyo and respond to it in a method of (mostly) their choosing.

Journals/diaries written by the students from the viewpoint of Japanese Americans sent to the internment camps during WWII that include multimedia and social media aspects. This is an individual activity that is researched based with technology aspects that uses primary and secondary resources.

This will be a technology-based, analysis, assignment that will focus on primary source documents of President Truman's viewpoints on race and letters that Brooklyn Dodgers Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson wrote to former Presidents.

Students will write a letter to an appropriate government official arguing for or against the use of the Special Minimum Wage Certificate.

Students will research the historical cause of desegregating the Armed Forces.

Individual research to find contrasting evidence for change based on the 1929 DePriest Tea Incident.

The student will analyze the role of the President of the United States in the Civil Rights movement and desegregation.

In this lesson, students will be asked to analyze two groups of the letters written to President Truman concerning the desegregation of the United States military.  One group of letters will be supportive of the Desegregation of the US military and the second group of letters will voice opposition to the desegregation of the military.