Hiroshima and the Origins of the Cold War
Please find the reading "Hiroshima and the Cold War" in your shared reading folder. Read it and answer the following questions about the atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War. Please put your answers on your Cold War NOTES shared document. (I've already put the questions on your document.)
These questions are to be completed by 8:20 a. Friday, Sept. 19.
1. Do Sources A and B prove that Truman dropped the bomb to save American soldiers' lives? Why or why not?
2. Do you trust Source D? Explain.
3. Point No. 2 under the heading "Possibility TWO" lists three of Truman's advisors: Davies, Stimson and Byrnes. Please provide a brief one to two sentences as to who they were in relation to Truman's administration in 1945.
4. Did Hiroshima start the Cold War ... and if so, how? Discuss which of the two possibilities you think most closely fits the facts.
