Positive Effects Of Japanese Internment

By complete surprise on December 7, 1941, the Japanese high military command attacked the military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing thousands, destroying hundreds of vessels, and propelling the United States into World War II. After the attack, Japanese Americans were held in “relocation camps,” where they stayed due to America’s trust issue against Japan. The internment camps were located in remote, desolate, inhospitable areas, and were prison-like, with barbed wire borders and guards in watchtowers. Many of them lost everything - homes, businesses, farms, respect, status and sense of achievement. They were treated like prisoners, a few families sharing one living space, having routines they needed to follow. After Pearl Harbor,
The discoveries of new technology allowed furtherance of warfare, propelling the leap of numerous nations’ ability to wage war against each other. One being the splitting atoms (nuclear fission), giving ideas of brainstorming to some of the greatest minds in the world. These scientists began formulating the creation of the atomic bomb used to attack Japan, changing the world in ways that we have never imagined. Then on August 6, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, by the United States. A flash, stronger than the sun itself, followed by a fiery explosion within seconds completely annihilated the city. A few days later another Japanese city, Nagasaki, was obliterated by a second atomic bomb (Fat Boy). These attacks were in an effort to end World War II promptly. Questions arose about the attack: Was it really necessary? Was America justified after the bombing? Would you have dropped the atomic bomb? Well, the short answer would be
The Japanese attack against Pearl Harbor destroyed many ships, killed more than 2,300 people, and attacked without warning to the American military. Japan starved, beaten, and executed American prisoners of war, as well as abandoning all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. With this, America was forced to drop the bomb on two of Japan’s cities (Hiroshima and Nagasaki). The options to drop or not to drop the bomb were made available to the leader(s) of America, former President Harry S. Truman and his advisors. Though they had a difficulty deciding, prolonging the war wasn’t an option and Truman believed that the Manhattan Project was successful enough to test on