In a matter of seconds seventy thousand people were killed. President Truman decided to drop the bomb on Hiroshima Japan. Truman was trying to prove a point to Russia and the rest of the world that the United States isn’t a country to mess with. He also used it to end the war in the PTO. Was President Truman justified to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?
From 1939-1945 World War 2 was going on. World War II was between the allies and the axis powers. A few months before the bomb was dropped President Roosevelt had passed away and left Vice President Truman in charge.The war in the PTO started when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The atomic bomb was the first ever mass destruction weapon ever to be used.
What led the United States to drop the atomic bombs on Japan? The United States had been in war with the Japanese in the PTO since 1941 and it all began with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The United States started the island hopping campaign until they got to the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Once they got to those islands they were able to bomb Japan.
Instead of dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, the U.S had other options to insure victory of the PTO. This would be demonstrated in an invasion of Japan, the called …show more content…
This would be just a microscopic amount of damage compared to what the atomic bombs could do. On August 6th, 1945, the Americans dropped the world's first operational atomic bomb on Japan. The A bomb of Hiroshima had damaged anything in its radius of 3.5 miles, the more close it was to the bomb the more destruction the object took, data took from The National Archives of the United States. After five years of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, the death toll from the blast and the sickness was believed to be around 200,000 human beings. Per square
From 1939-1945 World War 2 was going on. World War II was between the allies and the axis powers. A few months before the bomb was dropped President Roosevelt had passed away and left Vice President Truman in charge.The war in the PTO started when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The atomic bomb was the first ever mass destruction weapon ever to be used.
What led the United States to drop the atomic bombs on Japan? The United States had been in war with the Japanese in the PTO since 1941 and it all began with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The United States started the island hopping campaign until they got to the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Once they got to those islands they were able to bomb Japan.
Instead of dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, the U.S had other options to insure victory of the PTO. This would be demonstrated in an invasion of Japan, the called …show more content…
This would be just a microscopic amount of damage compared to what the atomic bombs could do. On August 6th, 1945, the Americans dropped the world's first operational atomic bomb on Japan. The A bomb of Hiroshima had damaged anything in its radius of 3.5 miles, the more close it was to the bomb the more destruction the object took, data took from The National Archives of the United States. After five years of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, the death toll from the blast and the sickness was believed to be around 200,000 human beings. Per square