1945

wrought widespread destruction of most of the city due to the persistent Allied air raids on Japan and the use of incendiary bombs. The bombing of Tokyo in 1944 and 1945 is estimated to have killed between 75,000 and 200,000 civilians and left more than half of the city destroyed.[31] The deadliest night of the war came on March 9–10, 1945, as nearly 700,000 incendiary bombs rained on the eastern half of the city, mainly in heavily residential wards. Two-fifths…

bomb, a resurgence from the baby boomers of 1945 begin to look in depth at what the United States has done to get to the point where they are at now. The Cold War, containment, civil rights, and the Vietnam War all seem to be common conflicts that has left the United States in a state of desperation. Many speculate that it was “man and his relentless hunger” that led to the stagnant issues that consistently pressed the people of the United States from 1945 to this point (1985). Sehdev interprets…

War is conflict, and disagreement is destruction. Therefore, one should ask himself or herself the following question: How does literature flourish from death, loss, pain, and suffering? War literature exposes one to war and its cruelties. It also warns humanity against the pursuit of armed conflict, as well as argues for world peace (“Introduction” 11). War literature depicts war as the world’s deadliest weapon of mass destruction—pure suffering. One’s suffering tends to be subjective, and war…

event that occurred to the very big Sodder family during the Eve of Christmas in 1945. Now there is a shrine in West Virginia (WV) to pay tribute to the middle children of this family. In summation, the deceased children in order of oldest - Maurice 14; Martha 12; Louis 9; Jennie 8; Betty 5 all perished in a fire seemingly due to faulty wiring, as said by many reports. So here it is. Twas the night before Christmas in 1945 and George and his wife Jennie Sodder with their nine other children…

50,000 people died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from poor sanitary conditions, lack of food, shelter and water, and an outbreak of diseases. The concentration camps held Jews, Poles, Soviets, Dutch, Czechs, Germans, and Australians. All the information in this article is from “I saw Anne Frank die” by Irma Sonnenberg, and “Bergen-Belsen” from the Holocaust Memorial Museum. Bergen-Belsen was a death camp, because of the terrible living conditions and the many diseases. It wasn’t and…

If the US had not developed and utilised the atomic bomb, the US had a plan to end the war. Operation Downfall was the US led effort to invade the Japanese homelands during the end of 1945 into 1946. The invasion would be split into two phases (Olympic and Cornet). These offenses would put Allied troops into the Japanese homeland through Kyushu and Honshu. “ The Navy Department estimated that the total losses to America would be between…

Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States of America. Truman assumed the position of president after the untimely death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in April of 1945. Truman was the only president to have no form of higher education. Truman started his career in politics later in life when he was elected Jackson county court judge in 1922 succeeding his seat on the bench came with a swift upgrade to the Position of Missouri state Senator in 1934. During his practically eight years…

In early 1939 scientists found out that German scientists knew how to split a uranium atom, this raised fear because of the possibility that the Nazi’s could produce mass destruction with a bomb. Scientists who fled persecution, like Albert Einstein agreed to inform president Roosevelt about the dangers of atomic technology. In late 1941 the American effort to produce an atomic bomb received the name, “The Manhattan Project.” In the beginning research was conducted at Columbia University,…

over there and took over them or bomb their most valuable resource. But we nuke the whole city we already knew we was more powerful than them but we had to take it to the next level. In the summer of 1945, the people of Japan were struck by a new beginning on August 6th 1945 an American fighter plane flew over the Japanese territory holding a the ending weapon to the city. Atomic bombs were dropped on to the city, it exploded with a huge flash the heat was so intense that the people…

It was August 6, 1945 and the day was silent. The bomb was dropped by Americans who were completely aware of the possibility of massive civilian casualties.“It wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon…