Year 9 lessons - Pearl Harbour to the dropping of the A-bombs

2 lessons looking at why the USA got involved in the war and how they ended it by dropping the Atomic bombs on Japan.

Lessons begin by looking at the attack on Pearl Harbour, introduced with a video clip to get pupils involved before looking in more depth at the reasons for, and the consequences of, this attack. Pupils will then begin to understand why Japan was proving a difficult enemy for the USA to defeat (again supported by a clip) and look at different reasons for the dropping of the atomic bombs.

I usually use these two lessons as an assessment as there is an extended writing task at the end of the PPT which gets the pupils to argue both sides of an debate and use sources to support their views, This can also be done as a class debate, depending on the class! Lesson also includes homework task.

Lesson is presented in an easy-to-use style and Powerpoint is self-explanatory. Makes use of the Technology, War and Identities Textbook (First Edition) but is easily adaptable for the newer version