Pacific Islands

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Day of the Western Sunrise

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Categories: Weaponry, Pacific Islands, Japan, 20th Century C.E., History.

Day of the Western Sunrise, Reimink, Keith. United States: Daliborka Films.

On March 1st, 1954, the U.S. detonated Castle Bravo on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This detonation was the first in a series of six thermonuclear weapon tests, and remains the largest and most powerful nuclear weapon detonated by the United States. The blast was three times larger than predicted, and deposited radioactive fallout as far away as Australia. Not far away, 23 fishermen aboard the Lucky Dragon No. 5 immediately began experiencing symptoms of radiation sickness and, when they returned to Japan two weeks later, they were quarantined.

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Day of the Western Sunrise: A Kamishibai-Inspired Documentary Film and Educational Toolkit

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Categories: Weaponry, Pacific Islands, Japan, 20th Century C.E., History, Science & Technology.

Day of the Western Sunrise: A Kamishibai-Inspired Documentary Film and Educational Toolkit, Reimink, Keith, and Angie Stokes. Daliborka Films.

Combining interview footage with kamishibai inspired animation, Day of the Western Sunrise tells the story of three Japanese fishermen who were inadvertently irradiated in a 1954 US weapons test. In addition to the documentary, the educational toolkit offers a range of lessons to educators with strong connections to history, art and science classes. This toolkit expands on information in the film while tasking students to think historically, artistically through storyboard designs and culturally as they decide how best to remember this often overlooked episode in history

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Families of the World: Family Life at the Close of the 20th Century

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Categories: Customs and Traditions, Children, Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands, Family, Lifestyles, 20th Century C.E., History, Language, Society & Culture.

Families of the World: Family Life at the Close of the 20th Century, Trembley, Helene. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux .

Contributed Material

Growth of Japanese Militarism & WWII in the Pacific: A Part of a Larger Unit on WWII

Submitted by Daniel A. Faircloth of Martinsburg High School on April 28, 2018

This implementation plan is part of a larger unit on World War II. It is conducted in a high school US History Honors class, and it is comprehensive (1600 to the 21st Century). It uses various resources and engaging activities with the students.