Nov11 - Project Pitch

For my final project I plan on assessing a historical event by analyzing it and displaying the data that is pertinent through visual aids.  I chose the event of President Truman dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan to end the second world war in 1945.  I chose such an event because there are tonnes of accessible resources and information such as speeches, medical data and political effects which can be analyzed to better understand the events that took place.  Examining historical documents such as the Potsdam Declaration and the San Fransisco Peace Treaty will be very interesting to look at because of their political and historical signifigance.  There are also resources such as the transcript of Truman's bombing announcement and audio clips of his actual speech.