The Incident One of the worst domestic terrorist attacks in United States history was the Oklahoma City bombing. The attack occurred on April 19‚ 1995 and the two assailants were Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The bombing killed 168 people and wounded 680 others‚ the blast from the bomb destroyed 324 buildings‚ causing an estimated $652 million dollars’ worth of damage‚ but the main building of the attack was the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The two attackers were captured within an
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Timothy McVeigh was the bomber behind the Oklahoma City Bombing on April 19‚ 1995. The state of Oklahoma raised money to build a memorial‚ which holds many artifacts. McVeigh impacted many lives -- the lives of the victims‚ injured‚ and survivors. “Timothy McVeigh was a dead man smiling” (Riley). McVeigh was a mass murder with a decent childhood. He took the lives of 168 people. If he felt bad for the bombing‚ his body language did not show it (Riley). McVeigh lived in New York with his family
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The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Written By: Nicholas Phandoe World War II began on September 1st‚ 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland and then ended on September 2nd‚ 1945 with the signing of the surrender documents from Japan aboard the American Battleship USS Missouri. During the course of 1941 when the US joined WWII‚ and 1945 when it ended over 291‚000 US American
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its sail and a sum of 1514 people perished with it. The name Titanic‚ a Greek methodology means gigantic and it took a total of 3000 men to build it for two years. Ship Construction of the Titanic commenced on March 31‚ 1909‚ at Queens Island in Belfast Harbor. The ship was 882 feet long and 92.5 at its widest point with its hull held together by approximately three million steel and iron rivets. This ship had two anchors on the sides and one more in the middle which weighed about 16 tons and was
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Was the bombing of Dresden and Hamburg justified? During the Second World War‚ allied forces targeted German cities for mass aerial bombardment. Two of the cities which felt the full brunt of RAF bombings were Dresden and Hamburg. This air campaign killed an estimated 600‚000 civilians and destroyed or seriously damaged some six million homes. The strategy used also came at a cost as Bomber Command throughout the bombing campaigns had 57‚143 men killed. The target’s for area bombing were chosen
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United States losing the war would result in Hitler winning‚ which is everyone’s least interest. World War 2‚ is thought to a fight for humanity. Most people agree that if Hitler wins‚ that the world is going downhill from there. This is why the bombing has been justified. In my opinion‚ I believe that using nuclear weapons against Japan is necessary to end the war. If we do not drop the bomb‚ and we invade Japan instead‚ millions of soldiers will lose their lives. If we care about our country and
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Dresden bombing From February 4 to the 11‚ the allied leaders which were Franklin Roosevelt‚ Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met at Yalta in the USSR and discussed bisons of the postwar world. Other than deciding on what part of the German territory would be conquered. The military had little time in the war against the third reign (Bombing of Dresden). “However‚ Churchill and Joseph Roosevelt did promise Stalin to continue their bombing campaign against Easter Germany in preparation for the
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The United States decided to use atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. This bombing created devastation and death that the world had never seen before. The use of the atomic bombs has been a topic of intense debate for years following the bombing. Several reasons for such outcry pertaining to the use of the atomic bomb were the moral dilemmas behind the bombing‚ the mass destruction caused by the bombing‚ the horrible physical and emotional effects on the citizens of Japan‚ and strained relations
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the center of controversy. A most notable event that is still debated across many public forums is the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Historians and politicians alike have questioned the justification of the United States’s decision. After taking careful consideration of both sides of the argument‚ it can be determined that the Unites States was not justified in its actions. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima had many negative health effects on the people at the time it was detonated and even up till today
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On May 7th Germany had surrendered unconditionally but the war with Japan raged on in the pacific. The Americans were war weary. They had seen the bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ Kamikaze attacks‚ and horrible casualties in Okinawa and Iwo Jima. There had been reports on things like the Bataan death march. Newspaper photos had shown American POWs beheaded by Japanese soldiers. Ending the war and preventing further loss of life is all that mattered at this point. With the surrender of Germany at the beginning
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