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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Three...two...one…¡#@%^! Instantly‚ 80‚000 are dead (Hall). Near the end of World War II on August 6th of 1945‚ American B-29 aircraft Enola Gay dropped the world’s first atomic bomb‚ ‘Little Boy‚’ on the unsuspecting city of Hiroshima‚ Japan. Tens of thousands of civilians were instantly killed from the explosion and as time passed‚ the death toll almost doubled due to exposure to radiation and other aftereffects from the bomb (LeMay & Tibbets). To this day‚ historians debate over very controversial
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Hiroshima: The World ’s Bomb. Oxford: Oxford UP‚ 2008. Print. Selden‚ Kyoko Iriye‚ and Mark Selden. The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Armonk‚ NY: M.E. Sharpe‚ 1989. Print. Nakazawa‚ Keiji‚ and Keiji Nakazawa. I Saw It: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima‚ a Survivor ’s True Story. San Francisco‚ CA: Educomics‚ 1982.
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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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Were the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessary to save allied lives and to end Japan’s threat to world peace? Did the resulting loss of life cost more than a deadly invasion of the Japanese mainland? In August 1945‚ the first dropping of atomic bombs in civilian areas of Japan killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Immediately following those bombings‚ Japan surrendered to the United States. The following essay summarizes the defense of the atomic bomb and its use‚ the arguments
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The Causes of Bombing Pearl Harbor On December 7‚ 1941 the United States Pacific Fleet and Pearl Harbor in Hawaii were attacked by Japanese aircraft. There was no warning for the attack‚ and it caused many deaths of U.S citizens. A pivotal event in American History was the bombing of Pearl Harbor which was a cause of the U.S not shipping supplies‚ Japan pursuing a policy which affected the U.S‚ and Japan becoming a threat to the economy of the U.S. The U.S‚ along with Britain and the Netherlands
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Although Americans thought the camps were a good idea at the time to prevent another attack Japanese Americans. Did President Roosevelt take his powers to an extent? Briefly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor‚ authorities took Japanese Americans to the 10 different stations called internment camps. Out of 112‚000 about 70‚000 were Japanese Americans. This living situation lasted about two years. They had no privacy whatsoever. Each housing
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and what would happen to them if they didn’t accept what they wrote. Harry Truman‚ Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill all whom had a main role in their country at the time wrote this declaration in Potsdam on the 26th of July 1945. The Hiroshima bombing was a fair act by the Americans as they had the will to end the war before the Russians came in to try and over power them‚ but it was what they did straight after the events of the first bomb‚ which was completely unnecessary. It can be concluded
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The Semiramis Hotel Bombing was perpetrated by the Haganah in Jerusalem between 1947and 1948 when there was a civil war in Mandatory Palestine. After the Semiramis hotel was suspected to be an Arab‚ headquarter the Haganah placed a bomb and as a consequence‚ twenty-four people lost their lives and several injured. Referring to the Associated Press‚ the hotel was attacked because it was considered important to the Arabs gangs. It was from the Semiramis hotel where rifles were dispersed to the outskirts
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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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