Year 9 Unit 5-How does conflict create change?  

Learning Journey

Timeline

Key Events  

Lesson focus

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On 6th August, 1945 an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an c.80,000 people; tens of thousands more later died of radiation. Three days later another A-bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. The events that unfold shape the Cold War and international relations. We will examine the origins of the Cold War, key turning points such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the impact of the Berlin Wall. An analysis of the war in Vietnam and international tensions will also be studied.

7th Dec 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbour  

Atomic Bomb

A bomb which derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity.

Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbour?

Why did America drop the Atomic Bomb?

11th Dec 1941

USA joins WWII  

Pearl Harbour

The Attack on Pearl Harbour was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States (a neutral country at the time) against the naval base at Pearl Harbour in Honolulu, Hawaii. This led to the USA entering WW2.

Why was a wall built at the end of WWII?

USA drops the Atomic Bomb

The Germans occupy Poland, and force Jews to leave their homes. WWII begins.

How ‘swinging’ were the sixties?

2nd Sept 1945

Japan surrenders.

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia between 1955 and 1975. The Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies supported North Vietnam; South Vietnam was supported by the United States, South Korea and other anti-communist allies.

Why did America fight in Vietnam?

1st Nov 1955

Start of Vietnam war

30th April 1975

End of Vietnam War

Extend Questions:

Fictional reading

Was US involvement after Pearl Harbour the catalyst to end WWII?

What would have been the consequence if after thirteen days the bomb struck the USA?

 Should America have kept fighting in Vietnam? 

Stasi 77

David Young

Spies, Code Breakers, and Secret Agents

Carol Roman

The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam

Huynh Quang Nhuong