“Little Boy” Imagine being President and being faced with the decision of having to either drop a newly tested atomic bomb on a Japanese City, harming thousands of innocent people in attempts to get them to surrender or sacrificing your own men by sending them to invade Japan in hopes to conquer them all to put an end to an ongoing war . No matter the option the consequences of the outcome wasn’t going to be a nice one. Before the bombing took place in Hiroshima in an earlier part of the…
Catapults can be used in many ways. They were used in ancient history times. There are many types of catapults. When launching a projectile, physics is used in the catapult. Catapults are very helpful to launching things to either destroy something or to launch something over a taller building. Catapults were one of the most effective weapons in early modern times. Catapults were used by Greeks, Romans, and Chinese. In history, the catapults were used to launch missiles directly at a wall or…
Page 1. *video playing in background with volume* *volume fades out* *like Houdini the narrator appears* Narrator: The Battle for the Solomon Islands, it was harsh battle against the Japanese, and a big turning point for the allies on the way to winning the Second World War. It all started on August 7th, 1942 when the first American troops landed on the shores of the Guadalcanal which was captured by the Japanese who were allied with the Nazis. Japanese infantry were building air bases on the…
was also not interested in a prolonged war with Japan either as they U.S had plans to attack the Nazi’s. To end the war quickly, the U.S decided to drop an atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima to make the Japanese surrender. On August 6, 1945 the U.S dropped the atomic bomb little boy in Hiroshima and then three days later dropped the atomic bomb Fat man on Nagasaki. Japan then surrendered on September 2,…
Six days ago, on the morning of December 7, 1941 thousands of Japanese fighter planes attacked at Honolulu, Hawaii at the American Naval base by Pearl Harbor. The attack on us, the Americans, only lasted two hours, but the damage was significant. The Japanese destroyed nearly 20 American naval ships and over 300 airplanes. Many lives were lost, almost 2,000 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded. President Franklin D. Roosevelt just declared war on Japan. The effect of that now is that…
Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, a day that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was certainly “a day that will live in infamy.” (Roosevelt). The United States of America had never been attacked on its own soil during a time of peace. An examination of primary and secondary will reveal the historical importance of this American history. On Sunday, December 7, there was 6 aircraft carriers, 81 fighters, 135 dive bombers, 104 regular bombers, and 40 torpedo planes heading to Pearl…
I feel that president Truman’s justifications for the atomic bombs were subversive, superficial and misleading. He wanted to prevent an invasion of Japan in order to save lives. Since theoretically the casualty count of the bombings would have be much fewer than the impending invasion. He also wanted to prevent Soviet involvement, as well as displaying to them the might of the puissant U.S. military. To me, it just comes down to the semantics of the final ultimatum from the Potsdam…
From TV shows to textbooks, I have heard about the importance of air resistance ad nauseam. Mythbusters taught me about how air resistance prevents pennies dropped from the Empire State Building in New York from killing innocent people. My textbook taught me about the importance of drag in preventing Felix Baumgartner from reaching speeds that would physically break him. However, throughout my entire physics career, air resistance was never included in projectile motion. The concept of…
in his message in 1942 president Roosevelt stated part way threw A man will sacrifice not only his pleasures not only his goods not only his associations with those he l “loves but his life itself. In time of crisis when the future is in the balance we come to understand with full recognition and devotion what is and what we owe to it.” Was he really dedicated to his people and his century or was it all a lie we will prove his innocents. we believe that President Roosevelt is innocent and we…
Throughout history there is always one prevalent factor which we as individuals are oblivious to. What? You might ask. It is how our government, peers, and even our loved ones tend to circumscribe us to limited information due to numerous reasons. Throughout this book you will notice the specific forms of how deception, racism, secret government experiments and extraordinary characters impact the theme of hidden secrets in various situations. Author Chris Abani an exhilarating African American…