From Pearl Harbor to the punishing jungles of Guadalcanal to the smoldering ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this curriculum guide and its accompanying multimedia assets will help you capture the unique challenges of the Pacific theater of World War II for your students. Great distances, terrifying new weapons, and the influence of race and ideology combined to make the Asia-Pacific conflict a distinct episode in the history of modern warfare, one that changed the world forever.
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Essays, lesson plans, and multimedia resources exploring World War II in the vast reaches of the Pacific, ranging from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, to the China-Burma-India Theater and the Japanese home islands. Curriculum volume authored and prepared by Dr. Walter Stern.
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Harry S. Truman's Atomic Bomb Address - August 9, 1945

Listen as the President explains the United States' rationale for developing and utilizing the atomic bomb in Japan.