The Second Great War was the war of Hitler and his allies against the world. In the timeline of the 1900’s in 1939 to 1945 is when the second world war initially started and concluded. Therefore the war crime caused a massive massacre ranging about to 50 - 80 million deaths of the world’s population, furthermore it included war-related disease and starvation. On August 6, 1945 is when the Japanese generals refused to accept defeat, so the US unleashed an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. By August
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they and everything around them was obliterated to dust. In what situation could this be right decision and how could this massive power be so concentrated? There are many things that must be taken into account when making a decision of this magnitude and then later when reflecting on the action taken. Truman debated whether or not to drop the Atomic Bomb, and after the decision was made Americans began to question whether dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan was the “right” choice or not. Not too long
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Hiroshima The bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th, 1945 was completely necessary. It efficiently ended the horrible World War II. Japan also needed to learn the error of their ways which started the whole Development of atomic weapons. It ended other conflicts with Japan. Dropping the bomb helped the Japans economy. Those are just some of the many reasons why it was right to bomb Japan. On August 9, 1945, President Harry Truman decided to drop and atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
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Hughes Professor Vincent Ferraro World Politics 12/06/2012 “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb had more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British "Grand Slam" which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare.” This was vocalized by President Harry Truman in his famous speech where he declared the bombing on mainland Japan and, educated
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Atomic Bomb Millions of people already dead and thousands more every day. The citizens beg for the conflict to stop but there is no end in sight. A single option seems to be able to end this conflict for good. In World War 2 the United States dropped the Atomic bomb on Japan in order to make them surrender and end the war. The dropping of the atomic bomb was justified in World War 2 because of Japan’s refusal to surrender, it saved U.S. lives and it demonstrated U.S. power. World War 2 was a
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McCaleb Mr. Spitler Was the Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary to end the war? As I did my research on this topic I found out that some found it necessary while others didn’t. During the course of this research paper I will be discussing why the atomic bomb was dropped. The effects right after the bomb was dropped for the Japanese and Americans also the after effects such as genetic effects. I will also touch on how Americans feel about the bomb more than fifty years later
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The Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki The World War II had been going on for over two years and the U.S. was staying in isolationism. But on December 7, 1941 Japan launched an attack on Pearl Harbor. After this The United States declared war on Japan. On August 6, 1945, little boy, the first atomic bomb ever used in war was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. This resulted in 70,000-80,000 people died immediately and another 70,000 were injured. Hiroshima at the time was very large with
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significantly smaller number of people than Japan, it was still devastating for the country. It was time for President Harry S. Truman to take action and end the war as quickly as possible with the least amount of added deaths. On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and three days later another was dropped on Nagasaki. Truman was right to use atomic force to get Japan to surrender and end the war. If the option was present to sacrifice thousands of lives in order
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Manhattan Project was a top secret project during World War II conducted by the United States, Great Britain, and Canada to develop the first nuclear weapon (the atomic bomb). Once President Truman was informed of the Manhattan Project, he formed a committee to research and discuss the most effective way to use the bomb to shock Japan into surrendering. Based upon the massive loss of lives suffered by both the United States and Japan on Iwo Jima and Okinawa, President Truman knew that it was unlikely that
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attack on Hiroshima was a brutal attack. One of the planes involved in making this bombing a success was named “Necessary Evil”. This plane was one that was used to take pictures of the bombing on the attack and the effects of the explosion. I think that this plane was named “Necessary Evil” because of its “evil” pictures that the plane had captured on the mission of bombing Hiroshima. More people than not believe that the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was the right decision to make. Japan
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