believed and was strong until the very end when he was quartered. Those kinds of people really surprise me because after losing his family he wouldn’t lay down for his enemies and give up, when most people would. I was also very interested in the atomic bombing in WWII. In my classes in NJROTC, I had learned a lot about nuclear weapons and became very interested in them. I wish we could’ve talked a little more about that specific part in the war. It shows the technology we developed at that time and how
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Japanese internment: Japanese americans on the Pacific coast; Washington top command feared that japanese would act as aboteurs for Japan in case of invasion, forcibly herded them together in concentration camps; internment camps deprived them of dignity, basic rights, and millions of dollars in property and foregone earnings 1. Korematsu vs. US: Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Japanese relocation in this case 2. Issei: “first”, legally barred from becoming citizens
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Robert Leckie’s book, Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II, is entirely about one of World War II’s most brutally fought battles. On April 1, 1945, the U.S. invaded Japan, attacking the island of Okinawa with 540,000 U.S. Army and Marines, and 1,600 ships. “ L Day” was the official name for this day. The L stood for “Landing,” but the Americans who invaded the Hagushi Beaches that day without any trouble from the Japanese, called it “Love Day.” This battle was the last battle of World War II
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Nuclear Warfare Jessica Mendez History 1000c Professor Herbin December 3, 2012 Today I write to you, Mr. President, with understanding that we, as a nation, sit in a tough predicament. The war has been going on for quite sometime now and although we’ve made some advances on the front lines, it still doesn’t seem like enough to defeat those threatening us. Innocent lives have been taken on both our part as well as our enemies’ and our nation is looking to you in hopes that you may have
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surrendered.) -Stalin wanted share of Japan same way to occupation of Germany -USA received reports that Soviet scientists also working on Atomic bomb,wanted to gain edge by being the first to use it successfully. Hiroshima and Nagasaki -6 Aug 1945-American bomber Enola Gay flew over Hiroshima and dropped atomic bomb ‘Little boy” at 8.15am while the city lay sleeping -1/3 of city population(66,000) killed instantly while 70,000 injured. -USA then announced discovery of Atomic bomb and demanded Japan
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Atomic Bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico. It was called the "Trinity" test and exploded with a force equivalent to 18,000 tons of TNT.(2) Truman then made the controversial decision to drop the bomb over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The "Little Boy" Atomic Bomb exploded 1,900 feet above Hiroshima with a force equivalent to 12,500 tons of TNT.(3) Bomb related deaths totaled
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Adrian Sarmiento 11129395 The Equation of Life and Death Einstein’s famous equation E=MC2 changed not only our lives but also Einstein’s life forever. E=MC2 was a special equation because this equation tells us that mass can be transformed into energy and energy can be transformed into mass. With the scientific breakthroughs at that time, it was believed that this equation can lead to the possibility of creating a bomb. His friend, Physicist Szilard, visited him and told Einstein that he
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10 questions Angel is a superhero film featuring a young girl who inadvertently gains the power to control energy when trying to enable humans to use a larger percentage of their brains. Her ability to control energy permits her to phase through solid objects and change her appearance completely. In this film she faces the evil super villain, H-Man, a psychotic ex-politician who firmly believes that the world needs to be cleansed using atomic bombs. Angel saves America from nuclear destruction by
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that bombing Japan was necessary if we wanted to end the war for good. Although hundreds of thousands lost their lives, we prevented millions of lives from meeting their death if we had continued to fight this war against Japan. They did not know surrender and were willing to fight to the death, or commit gyokusai. Then again, I believe that dropping these bombs showed the world how much America prioritizes themselves before anybody else. In all honestly, I don’t know if I support the bombing or not
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Stauffenberg’s first attempt at taking Hitler’s life took place on 1 July 1944, as he brought a bomb into his headquarters, called the Wolf’s Lair . In both reality and in the film, Stauffenberg had no intention of setting off the bomb on this day, but it was simply a test to see if he would be able to successfully bring a bomb past the security and into Hitler’s fortress . Once Stauffenberg’s test run proved successful, the film then provides a very detailed account of the final five days of the
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