1945

The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War. The war was reaching its end and the allies’ forces were preparing an anticipated costly invasion on Japanese mainland. Meanwhile the United States continue its campaign of bombing many Japanese cities in hopes of Japanese Leaders to accept their unconditional surrender. Japan who ask the Germans for help, the United States an aware of Japans…

question is why would the FBI be searching for Hitler if they believed that he was dead. The truth of the matter the FBI didn't they knew that the Russians never found his actual body and burned the murdered doubles to hide that Hitler escaped Germany in 1945. In one of the documents from the FBI it writes about knowing about a submarine going to Argentina and dropping off high level Nazi’s ( 2015, Para. 6). The government lied to us about Hitler being committing suicide and that they also knew…

The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was a genocide in which, under the rule of Adolf Hitler and his collaborates, approximately six million Jewish people were killed by Germany’s Nazi Regime from 1941-1945. Though the anti-semitism of Nazi Germany began in 1933 because of Hitler’s belief that the Jewish people were “inferior” to the “superior German race”, the mass murders we all associate with the Holocaust did not begin until World War II had started. In the beginning the…

In December 1945, Korea was directed by America and Russia Joint Commission, as concurred at the Moscow Conference (1945). The Koreans were rejected from the discussions. The commission chose the nation would get to be free following a five-year trusteeship activity encouraged by each régime sharing its supporter's…

August 1945, President Harry S. Truman made one of the most crucial international security decisions that has shaped how we view nuclear weapons today. The decision to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I will argue that Truman’s made the decision to drop the bomb for keep intact American national interest. According to Walker, J. S., and Alperovitz. G, Truman considered several ways to convince Japan to quit the war: Firstly, by intensifying the already heavy bombing of Japanese cities; Secondly,…

Lena Baker was the first African American woman in Georgia to be executed in the electric chair. She was executed in 1945, after she was sentenced for killing a man who had held her captive. At the time of Baker's execution, the Georgia prison system was under investigation for reform. About Lena Baker was conceived in 1900 in small town of Cotton Hill, around five miles southwest of Cuthbert, the seat of Randolph County. There, she, her brother, and her two sisters, did farm work for a living.…

The War That Changed Everything Cries of pain, tears and agony; all from one event in history, which was the Vietnam war. This war changed everything, lives from all over the entire world. Thousands of lives were taken just from this one war. More than fifty percent of the men who had died were US citizens, which means thousands more American families were affected. Some lived, and some died, but most of those who walked out alive, still had the horrific memories of those certain years in their…

ask themselves was it a right to bomb Japan in August 1945. The first explosion on Hiroshima nearly destroyed about four square miles of the city injuring roughly 40,000 people and killing another 90,000. A couple days later the second bomb on Nagasaki murdered about 37,000 and wounded another 43,000. Both of the bombs killed around 200,000 civilians. It seems every year farther away from that horrible event, we begin to think were we wrong? 1945, during the war Americans encouraged the bombing;…

work, and suddenly, you hear this booming sound that destroys your ears and leaves them ringing. Seconds later, you are wiped from the face of the Earth. This is what was experienced by the people of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, and the people of Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945. WWII is almost over. Germany has surrendered, but Japan is still in the way of victory. The United States has a new weapon, and this is the perfect time to use its destructive power. Little did the U.S know that the bomb…

The Atomic Bomb Truman was right to use the atomic bomb. The “A” bomb was one of the most intense war weapons ever used, but it came with many advantages. After President Roosevelt had died in mid April of 1945, Harry Truman had taken his place and wanted to be able to fill his shoes. He had never been told about the plans for the atomic bomb until now. After careful consideration he decided to use this terrible weapon on the Japanese. The “A” Bomb was the right way to go for many reasons, but…