23. Document Project 23: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

Quiz for Document 23.7 Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

Quiz for Document 23.7: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What was one of the primary results of the bombing of Hiroshima?

Targeted military installations were destroyed.

Arms factories and manufacturing centers were demolished.

Large numbers of buildings were destroyed, and tens of thousands of civilians were killed.

Relief workers contracted various diseases due to the radiation.

2. Based on the circumstances surrounding dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, what might the man pictured have been thinking as he surveyed the area?

What type of weapon could cause this destruction?

What should be done with all the dead bodies?

Who caused such damage to Japan?

Why was Japan bombed?

3. What impact would this image likely have as it circulated the world in the postwar era?

Anti-Japanese sentiment

Anti-atomic bomb sentiment

Anti-Russian sentiment

Anti-nuclear power sentiment

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