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President Truman’s decision to utilize the atomic bomb was mainly influenced by his background. He fought and World War II, and vows his life would have ended if the war lasted any longer. His war tactics and style were shaped by Franklin Roosevelt. He carried out the notion of unconditional surrender, and craved a victory as soon as plausible. The bomb was decided to be dropped without any warning whatsoever. Though the atomic bomb was to be used on Japan, it also was meant to demonstrate…

German people, since it once belonged to Germany prior to WWI. Within a matter of days, Great Britain responded by bombing Germany for their invasion of Poland. Over the course of the war Germany, Japan, and Italy had become axis to Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. Although the war began on September 1, 1939, the U.S. did not officially join WWII until December 7, 1941, after Japanese military forces bombed the U.S. Naval Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii. The…

On August 6th, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki leading to a grand total of more than 200,000 casualties, 5 out of 6 being civilian. The use of such devastating force on civilians is considered extremely unethical today by numerous organizations and scholars. However, it stands as one of the most applauded decisions in US History for decisively ending World War II. As a society, the United States…

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…

archipelago. The first campaign of the island hopping was the attack on Gilbert Islands. The first island attacked was Makin. They were very unprepared for the attack; the base did not have any planes or boats. The USA came through the air dropping bombs in the middle of the island. The Japanese were expecting a land attack, and it was too late when they realized they could not defend only the beaches. It was an easy victory for the Americans, only taking about 2 days and losing only around one…

History 8 June 2015 Why the Atomic Bomb Should have been Dropped On August 6 and August 9 of 1945, perhaps the most controversial war decision in American history took place. This decision was deciding to drop the atomic bombs in Hiroshima, Japan on the sixth and Nagasaki, Japan on the ninth. Killing thousands of individuals instantaneously with Japan’s army in a weak state, many argue that the bombings were unnecessary. Despite these arguments, the dropping of the atomic bombs was both…

fall for the lies and enter a World War as they had done before (Vanden Huevel). Roosevelt knew that Germany and Japan were major threats to the United States, and so in 1939 he began the project to research how to build an atomic bomb, famously known as the Manhattan Project (Vanden Huevel). The Manhattan Project was one of the boldest…

the Federal Writers Project which helped them achieve their popularity (Faragher 870). Then, in 1934, Adolf Hitler gained control of Germany. Five years later Hitler and his regime invaded Poland, which led to World War…

deal with ever-growing threat of the Japanese empire. President Roosevelt died in office, and Harriet Truman took his seat and was informed of the Manhattan Project, a secret government project which was successful in developing the first atomic bomb (US Bombing). On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima, Japan and 90% of the city population was immediately killed; thousands more would die…

Exponential Innovations: The Tensions of The Cold War The world was thrust into the Atomic era by Fat Boy and Little Man, the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII (Nelson 212). These bombs served as a demonstration to the world of the immense power created by splitting the atom. This fostered the exigence for the prevailing global superpowers, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States (US), to develop larger, more destructive nuclear…