Hiroshima Bombing Benefits

Like most American citizens, we were educated that the U.S. released nuclear bombs to end WWII with Nagasaki and Hiroshima. These were used to save both American and Japanese lives. The United States believed, forcing Japan to surrender with atomic weapons was the way to go! The dropping of these bombs had three major benefits to the use of nuclear weapons. First, it instantaneously stopped the war. This war could have been dragged on for months or even years. The Asian civilians were dying at rates of 100K or more every month, thanks to the Japanese. Asia was better off, even if the bombs cut the war shorter by a few months. Second, if Japan would have surrendered in an attack, they would have fought back after recovering. Last, these horridness …show more content…
The racial talk about why the U.S. did what they did was only talked about in two works, both being over a period old. Thinking about the entire situation, the whole war was everything but human. The Japanese were extremely unpredictable. No one knows how long WWII would have even lasted without the dropping of the bombs. Then again dragging on a war would have been cruel for all contributors. The “Great Leap Forward” took place in 1958. This was Mao’s effort to modernize China and the economy. The plan was that by 1988, China’s economy would have equaled Americas. Mao saw the people of China, capable of anything. He felt there were two main points that needed to be addressed, these being agriculture and industry. This was a five-year plan, known as the Great Leap Forward. This plan lasted from 1958 to 1963. While the agriculture workers needed industry to manufacture modern instruments for modernization, the industry could only flourish if the work power was well nourished. Mao was seen as one of the most significant individuals in modern world history. He drove imperialism out of China, construction it into a world power, improved schooling and increased life