Primary
Sources
Bird, Kai and et al. “The Legend of Hiroshima.”
Hiroshima’s Shadow. Stony Creek,
Connecticut: The Pamphleteer’s Press,1998. This book is
a series of journals from people who were in the war and describes in detail
what happened and in what order. This book is our primary source. We found
this book in Mr.
Yoder’s classroom.
“Resource Library.” [http://www.atomicarchive.com/librarymenu.shtml.]
November 5, 2007. This website gave us a letter from Einstein
to Roosevelt
and vice versa. This source is a primary source. We found this source
searching for “Einstein.”
Secondary Sources
“A Race to Build the Atomic
Bomb.” [http://www.cccoe.k12.ca.us/abomb/physics.htm.] November 5, 2007. This website gave us information and pictures on the structure of the
atomic bomb. We found this website searching for “Atomic Bomb."
“A-Bomb.” [http://mothra.rerf.or.jp/ENG/A-bomb/photo-1/p9.jpg.]
November 1, 2007
. This website gave us a picture on
the destruction the atomic bomb caused to Japan. We found this website searching for “Atomic Bomb Destruction.”
“Damage map of
Hiroshima.” [http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/4526/index1.html.]
November 1, 2007. This website gave us a damage map of
Hiroshima
and a picture of the actual explosion. We found this source while searching
for “Atomic Bomb Damage.”
“Harry
S.
Truman.” [http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ht33.html.] August 26, 2007. This explained to us
what happened to
Truman
during the war and was explicit in detail on the fact that
Truman
was set up by
Leahy,
Byrnes, and Groves. We found this website searching for “Harry
S.
Truman.”
“Harry
Truman
on Dropping the Atomic Bomb.” [http://www.rjgeib.com/heroes/Truman-atom-bomb.html.]
August 26, 2007. This source explained to us who invented the atomic bomb
and that the Japanese had invented one just days after the U.S.
dropped theirs. We found this source searching for “Harry
Truman
and the Decision of Dropping the Atomic Bomb.”
“Hiroshima, One Day After the Bomb.”
[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/trinity/photopages/hiroshima_ruins.html.]
November 1, 2007. This source gave us a picture on how the city of Hiroshima
looked one day after the dropping of the atomic bomb. We found this website
while searching for “Hiroshima.”
“Iwo Jima.”
[http://www.iwojima.com/battle/lbattlb.gif.] November 1, 2007. This source gave us a picture on the battle of
Iwo Jima. We found this website searching for “Iwo Jima.”
Maddox, Robert
James. “The Biggest Decision; Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb.”
American Heritage. May/June
1995. Pg.70-77. This source explained to us how many people died during the
droppings of the atomic bombs and how people felt about the droppings of the
bombs. We found this source in Mr.
Yoder’s classroom.
“Nagasaki.”
[http://www.atomicmuseum.com/tour/dd5.cfm.]
November 1, 2007. This website gave us a picture and information on the
destruction the atomic bomb caused on
Nagasaki. We found this source searching for “Nagasaki.”
“Pilot.” [http://www.theenolagay.com.]
November 5, 2007. This website gave us information on the Enola
Gay, the pilot, and basically all the events after
the dropping of the bombs. We found this source while searching for “Enola
Gay.”
“Pilot of plane that dropped A-bomb dies.” [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_on_re_us
/obit_tibbets.] November 1, 2007. This website gave us information on the pilot of the
Enola
Gay
who died on
November 1, 2007. We found this source right when we got on the computer, and it was right
in the news of Yahoo.com.
“President
Harry
S.
Truman.” [http://www.doug-long.com/Truman.htm.]
August 26, 2007. This source explained to us what
Harry
Truman
did with the decision and that President
Roosevelt
was murdered. We found this source searching for “President
Harry
Truman
and the Atomic Bomb.”
“President
Truman
and the Atomic Bomb.” [http”//www.reformation.org/atomic-bomb.html.]
September 5, 2007. This source explained to us where the U.S.
dropped the bombs to test them and Truman’s feelings toward the a-bomb. We found this source searching for “President
Truman
and the Atomic Bomb.”
“World
War II (1939-1945.)” [http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001288.html.]
November 29, 2007. This website gave us a timeline, in which we based
ours on. We found this source searching for “World War II Timeline.”
“World War II Combat Reports.”
[http://www.militaryunits.com/combat.htm.]
November 1, 2007. This website gave us pictures on the military units of
World War II in action. We found this source while searching for “World
War II.
“World War II in the Pacific.”
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/05/asia_pac_
world_war_ii_in_the_pacific/html/1.stm.] November 1, 2007. This website gave us a picture and information on the
Japanese army. We found this source while searching for “Japanese Army.”
“World War II Issues.”
[http://wsi.matriots.com/WWIIissues.html.] November 1, 2007. This website gave us information on generally the World
War II issue. We found this source while searching for “World War II.”
“World War II Quotes.”
[http://www.angelfire.com/la/raeder/worldwarIIquotes.html.] November 30, 2007. This website gave us quotes from all the countries
involved about World War II. This was our main source for quotes. We found
this source while searching for “World War II Quotes.”
“World
War II, WW2, Second World War.” [http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-conflicts-periods/ww2/0-ww2-cat-index.htm.]
November 5, 2007. This website gave us a picture of a newspaper with the
heading, “Britain
and France
at War with Germany.” We found this source while searching for “World War II.”
“The Ultimate World War II.”
[http://www.historymania.com/american_history/World_War_II.] November 1, 2007. This website gave us a picture of the mushroom cloud the
atomic bomb creates. We found this source while searching for “Mushroom
Cloud.”
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