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In the early morning of Sunday December 7, 1941, Japan unleashed one of the most vicious attacks anyone has ever seen. In just two hours Japan had attacked us with hundreds of fighter planes leaving plenty of destruction. At the end of the bombing, Japan had killed thousands of soldiers and wounded thousands more. They had also destroyed several battleships, 20 naval vessels, and also almost destroyed a total of 200 planes. Just one day after this ferocious attack, President Roosevelt declared war against Japan. (History.com, n.d)
Japan and the US have had serious tension throughout the years. Nobody thought they would go the distance from Japan to Hawaii. We thought that it would be such an inconvenience that it wouldn 't even have been an option for them. Japan is about 4,000 miles away from Hawaii, they had travel a distance that we didn 't think they would even dream of trying to accomplish. What’s weird about this situation is that almost the whole Pacific fleet was in this harbor, but it was undefended. Even though we didn’t think anyone would attack Pearl Harbor, wouldn’t you think that we would have had some sort of a …show more content…
In my opinion what we did to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t morally right, but were necessary. It’s hard to give an unbiased opinion on this topic because I am a proud American so I am very opinionated on the subject. I think that the decision to drop the bombs was the right one even though so many people died because of it. I believe it was the right decision because it saved thousands of american soldiers in which we would have lost if we would have tried a full on invasion on Japan to get them to surrender. I think that if we knew all the aftermath it would’ve caused with the radiation and severe pollution we put in their water and food sources, that the decision to drop the bombs wouldn 't have been made as quickly as it was. Overall I think
In the early morning of Sunday December 7, 1941, Japan unleashed one of the most vicious attacks anyone has ever seen. In just two hours Japan had attacked us with hundreds of fighter planes leaving plenty of destruction. At the end of the bombing, Japan had killed thousands of soldiers and wounded thousands more. They had also destroyed several battleships, 20 naval vessels, and also almost destroyed a total of 200 planes. Just one day after this ferocious attack, President Roosevelt declared war against Japan. (History.com, n.d)
Japan and the US have had serious tension throughout the years. Nobody thought they would go the distance from Japan to Hawaii. We thought that it would be such an inconvenience that it wouldn 't even have been an option for them. Japan is about 4,000 miles away from Hawaii, they had travel a distance that we didn 't think they would even dream of trying to accomplish. What’s weird about this situation is that almost the whole Pacific fleet was in this harbor, but it was undefended. Even though we didn’t think anyone would attack Pearl Harbor, wouldn’t you think that we would have had some sort of a …show more content…
In my opinion what we did to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t morally right, but were necessary. It’s hard to give an unbiased opinion on this topic because I am a proud American so I am very opinionated on the subject. I think that the decision to drop the bombs was the right one even though so many people died because of it. I believe it was the right decision because it saved thousands of american soldiers in which we would have lost if we would have tried a full on invasion on Japan to get them to surrender. I think that if we knew all the aftermath it would’ve caused with the radiation and severe pollution we put in their water and food sources, that the decision to drop the bombs wouldn 't have been made as quickly as it was. Overall I think