Why Is The United States Justified During World War II?

WWII, also known as a major historic turning point started on September 1, 1939 and stretched to September 2, 1945. Throughout the years there have been many questions related to what the United States did and if they were right in doing so. In this paper we will be discussing, Japanese imprisonment, the use of the Atomic Bomb and the United States obligation to help rebuild the world after war. Since United States was already at war, fear lead many Americans to believe that people of Japanese decent would start working as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government. This assumption ultimately ended up with over 127,000 Japanese-Americans detained and in concentration camps for the duration of war. Although this is looked upon as a harsh punishment for being Japanese, it has protected the United States government from sabotage and corruption. In my own personal opinion I believe that the United States government was justified in their actions to detain these citizens. History always repeats itself and with our knowledge on uprisings and sabotage I believe this plan was carefully mapped out and adjusted to not only alleviate fear but to save our own asses (if you will) in the end.
To place us in President Truman’s shoes , America was getting tired of being at war but, “…the Japanese military was refusing to give up their fight.” (Par.2) Although whats done is done, the question still remains to this day, was Truman Justified in using this device? Seeing as how the United States reached out to the Japanese Government for a surrender and also included in the terms that if a surrender was not reached it would result in “total destruction”(Par.2) I believe that the United States was justified in their