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Students will work individually or in pairs to analyze Norman Rockwell's Family Squabble.

Student will investigate and compare the personal experiences included in Rod Hersey; book Hiroshima with the first-hand account of American Nikolay Palchikoff’ visit to Hiroshima three weeks after the bomb.

Students will be able to analyze one or more primary sources in order to take and defend a position on the World War Two atomic bombing in Japan.

Have the students research the phrase, find the document where it originally appeared, discuss its origin or what the people who first used it were trying to accomplish/say.

Students will review primary source documents, secondary resources and related news articles and current events relating to the events and impact of the test of the atomic bomb at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on July 16, 1945.

Compare and contrast various types of camps in World War II.

After a review of African American military history, students will analyze three primary documents associated with President Truman's decision to desegregate the military.

Students will compare and contrast women's issues of two time periods.

This lesson uses the jigsaw method of cooperative learning to determine how President Truman felt about dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan.

Students will read a section from To Secure These Rights: The Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights and analyze the directions under the executive order and the interpretation by the committee of what they were supposed to accomplish.