The Negative Effects Of Atomic Bombing

68 civilians (“The Bombing”). Roosevelt called December 7th, “a date which will live in infamy” (“Hiroshima”).This act began the war in the Pacific. Three days after the attack Japanese allies Italy and Germany also declared war on the United States. After the Pearl Harbor Attack, Japan began a massive campaign throughout the Southeast Asia-Pacific region to seize territories (“Hiroshima”). The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor provoked a declaration of war by the United States Congress on the Empire of Japan. The United States felt it was necessary to strike back at Japan due to the attack on Pearl Harbor. For the next year the United States and Japan engaged in a series of naval battles, including the Battle of Midway. June 1942, in which Japan suffered a catastrophic defeat (Harris). The United States held people of Japanese descent on U.S. soil captive in fear that they were a part of the attack and possible espionage by Japanese sympathizers. Japanese-Americans from the west coast were sent to camps for the duration of the war (“Hiroshima”).
More than two years into the conflict the United States. Joined WWII. In the 1930’s the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, created the Manhattan project and had a group of scientist create nuclear bombs. On July 16, …show more content…
They believed that a "house to house invasion of the Japanese mainland would produce thousands more American and Allied casualties” In 1945, late July, it was declared that the Japanese must surrender. President Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the Chairman of the Chinese National Government Chiang Kai-shek issued a declaration for peace, the Potsdam Declaration, on the 26th of July 1945 (“Hiroshima”), The United States faced the realization that Japan would not come to a peace agreement. President Truman