Hirohito

It soon became clear that the only way for peace between America and Japan involved more military actions. Since no negotiations were making progress, Truman was left with a difficult decision to make. Truman had to decide was whether he should send troops from the US Army to invade the island of Japan, or to use the atomic bomb spoken about at the Potsdam Conference to end the conflict. If Truman had sent troops to the Japanese mainland a brutal war would rage, there would have been many…

President Truman and the United States justified in dropping the bombs on Japan. This is because the atomic bomb saved thousands American lives along with, believe it or not, Japanese lives. Quite obviously, if the war between the U. S. and Japan went on, both sides would have lost a lot of lives. From the scheduled two land invasions in and other battles that could have occurred as well. It is estimated that more than 80 million more Japaneses and many American lives would have been lost…

The interwar period of 1919-1939 had economic disruptions that led to unstable political conditions during transformations that were occurring in Japan, China, Mexico, Turkey and Iran. Of all these countries Japan stands out as executing the most successful transformation due to aggressive nationalism that helped it achieve expansion into China as well as the ability to create an empire during this period. Other countries like China and Mexico were less successful because of struggles to…

Joseph Stalin was one of the easiest rankings on my list. To this day, not a single human has as much blood on their hands than Joseph Stalin. He was definitely not someone that you would want to mess with. He was responsible for over twice the deaths than Hitler. I believe that the cause for his unspeakable evils was nurture. Joseph Stalin was born into a very poor family and was constantly teased when he never fully recovered from smallpox. His unfortunate childhood made him angry and…

Life can be hard at times, especially if you are forced to give up everything you know and start a new one. In Joseph Bruchac’s novel, Code Talker, this is exactly the case. Kii Yazhi, a young Navajo boy, has to give up his life as a Navajo to go to boarding school and learn English. There, he must never speak in Navajo or else he will be punished by the teachers. Kii, now named Ned by the teachers, must overcome this challenge and many others if he wants to survive World War II. Upon arriving…

this declaration, thinking that the Allies were threatening more of the usual “firebombing and eventual invasion” (Hastings, Inferno 626-627). Likewise, even after the bombing of Hiroshima, Prime Minister Kantaro would not accept defeat. Emperor Hirohito relayed a message to him…

World War II began on September 1, 1939. At approximately this time, American physicists discovered that splitting atoms can cause a powerful explosion. Though the atomic bomb was not existent until later in the war, well respected, American physicists believed atomic bombs could be produced. They also believed that the bombs could demolish a large city with one, single blast. As the war progressed, rivalries grew more intense and the first atomic bomb was developed. Albert Einstein was one of…

The atomic bomb was developed utilizing Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Einstein had fled Nazi Germany, when he came to the U.S. he contacted President Roosevelt and informed him that the German scientist were developing a new atomic weapon. With Einstein’s persuading President Roosevelt gave the order to start a secret new program called the Manhattan Project with was the development of the Atomic Bomb. The atomic bomb was tested in New Mexico in July 1945 and was a success. President…

Nanking Massacre In a matter of 6 weeks, two hundred to three hundred thousand people in Nanjing, China were killed. This would later be known as the Nanking Massacre. Before Japan’s Central China Army entered Nanking on December 13, 1937, leader of China, Kai-Shek removed all official Chinese troops from the capital. He left the untrained auxiliary troops to defend the city at all costs, but sadly a significant amount of soldiers fled before the Japanese entered the city. When the Japanese…

exposure. The American military felt it was necessary to drop a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. They felt this was necessary to minimize the number of lost American lives that could result from a potential invasion of Japan. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, surrendered in World War II on radio talking about the atomic bombs and how…