Associate Program Material Appendix C World War II and the Atom Bomb Complete the charts in Parts 1 and 2 by providing the requested information. An example is provided in Part 1. Answer the questions in Part 3. Part 1: Western Front Campaign Dates Allied objective Major turning point Outcome EXAMPLE: North Africa October 1942 to May 1943 Attack Germans from the southern side; expose the vulnerability of the Nazi empire Battle at El Alamein: German forces driven out
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worlds first atomic bomb.105, 000 died and 940,00 were inquired this causing 199,000 innocent citizens affected by the bombing. During the Second World War the United states spend six months of intense fire bombing on 37 Japanese cities this had done only little to break japan and they refused to surrender. The bombing involved an advantage of re-building the Japanese economy, which lead to very fundamental changes to the Japanese Government and Society. General Douglas MacArthur was chosen to be
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Warfare Technology in WWII: The Atomic Bomb The most significant way that technology changed in WWII, was with the invention of the atomic bomb. A scientific advancement in the 1930’s made the atomic bomb production possible. The discovery of nuclear fission; the process in which an atom is split, and the realization that the power from this could be controlled to produce mass amounts of energy were elements of what fueled this development. Once the bombs were made and tested the decision
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of the A-Bomb In early August 1945 atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These two bombs quickly yielded the surrender of Japan and the end of American involvement in World War II. By 1946 the two bombs caused the death of perhaps as many as 240,000 Japanese citizens1. The popular, or traditional, view that dominated the 1950s and 60s – put forth by President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson – was that the dropping of the bomb was a diplomatic
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Was America right to drop the bomb on Japan? In some ways yes, America was right to drop the bomb on Japan because it was a quick way to end the war and was an easy way to stop the conflict between the countries. On the other hand the Japanese still didn't back down immediately after America’s air force dropped the bomb. The fact that Japan didn’t still back down immediately could be argued as America was insisting that they surrender; this would mean that they had to give up their emperor. This
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The use of the atomic bomb in World War II to this day is greatly disputed to this day along the theological, moral and political implications on the United States as a country. As I researched this topic trying to formulate a decisive opinion I could not help but be in conflict with myself. On the one hand American lives were being lost in the Pacific theater on a large scale and would surely continue to be lost at the hands of the determined Japanese as long as the conflict continued. On the other
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Japan bomb pearl harbor in a sneak attack and in retaliation the US ended the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to get revenge on japan for causing so many casualties. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were partially justified because Japan would not have surrendered without the use of nuclear weapons, however, the goal was to prevent casualties, but it actually caused more casualties, and little was known about the effects of radiation. Citizen1 believes that the bombing was justified
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The United States was wrong to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan. The U.S sunk to shocking extremes to make sure that Japan would surrender. The bombs were dropped on two harmless Japanese cities. According to various sources, Japan would have surrendered even if the bombs were not dropped. Yes, the Japanese military did bomb Pearl Harbor when the U.S. was not involved in the war. And yes, the U.S. did have the right to fight back, but not like it did. The U.S. might have wanted to give Japan a taste
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Father of the Atomic Bomb”, was credited for his role in the Manhattan Project. During the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos, New Mexico Laboratory. Oppenheimer helped with the development of the atomic bombs that were eventually dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. During his life, Oppenheimer was one of the most important leaders of American history by being a pioneer in nuclear science. Oppenheimer, the son of a German immigrant, was born on April 22
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United States dropped bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In a world where America already had a reputation of being racially elite via slavery, through the slaughter of the Chinese in the 1800’s, through the terrorization and segregation of the Native Americans, to ignoring what Hitler was doing to the Jewish people and in the total blind movement of rounding up Japanese Americans and placing them in internment camps, it seems to fit that theory that we dropped the bomb simply because we didn’t
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