Operation Blog is ACTIVE

OK students...this is the platform upon which students will share their knowledge and understanding of the great marker event of 20th century world history: World War 2. The rules are simple:

1. All students must make at least one post to this blog. Posts are in the form of reflections, opinions, links to articles, video, music, images, etc. Students must relate the nature of their posts to a theme of the conflict and make commentary.

2. All students must make at least one comment on another students post. Comments must be thoughtful, argumentative if inclined, insightful, or you my pose some question leads to another post by you or another classmate.

3. You must tag your post with the applicable theme(s).

4. Grades will be based on an holistic scoring scale which heavily weights the frequency and substance of posts and comments. Minimum participation equates to minimum scores for this class exercise.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Atomic Bombs

After the Pearl Harbor incident, Hiroshima was the main target of the first U.S. nuclear mission attack. The American military had operated the atomic bomb named “Little Boy”. B-29 Enola Gay was the aircraft that carried Little Boy to the city of Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945 at 8:16:02 A.M. (Hiroshima time), the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. It exploded 1,900 feet with a force of 12,500 tons of TNT. The explosion destroyed the city and killed thousands of lives.

The second target of the nuclear attack mission was on Nagasaki, Japan. The atomic bomb was called “Fat Boy”. On August 9, 1945 at 11:02 a.m., the second atomic bomb was dropped by an aircraft called B-29 Superfortress "Bockscar”. Fat Boy exploded at 1,650 feet with a force of 22,000 tons of TNT. In a blink of an eye, Nagasaki was destroyed.

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  1. siddhantFebruary 8, 2010 at 10:45 PM

    This post could have made a better impact on the understanding of the student's. It would have been helpful to have some information on how the local people of Japan joined hands to support each other. Also, the response of the government to the two bombings and the effect they had on the outcome of the war would be interesting to learn about.

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