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    IF YOU WERE PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMANWOULD YOU HAVE MADE THE SAME DECISION AS HE DID‚ WITH DROPPING THE ATOMBOMB ON HIROSHIMA? The 6th of August 1945 was a day that people will always remember with terror. On this day‚ an atomic bomb was used by the U.S. against Japan‚ in the city of Hiroshima. This was the first time in world history. Before this sad event‚ Japan and the U.S. were having conflicts with each other because Japan tried to invade parts of Europe and the Pacific. In an attempt stop Japanese

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    “I felt like the moon‚ the stars‚ and all the planets had fallen on me.” Harry S. Truman‚ our thirty-third president of the United States‚ spoke this on April 12‚ 1945. This was a significant day in which two major things happened; President Franklin D. Roosevelt died unexpectedly‚ and Harry S. Truman was sworn in as president. Henry L. Stimson‚ Roosevelt’s secretary of war‚ who later became Truman’s‚ reintroduced the proposal of the Manhattan Project and its person in charge‚ Major General Leslie

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    civilians were beyond weary and restless‚ yet the Japanese were steadfast and refused to give up their fight. Sworn in as the 33rd United States president‚ after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s sudden death‚ Harry S. Truman presided over the end of WWII. When Truman learned of the success of the “Manhattan Project” he knew that he was faced with a decision of unparalleled gravity. He was well aware that the capacity to end the war with Japan was in his hands‚ however‚ he was also aware that it would involve

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    Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a questionable decision by Harry Truman‚ the president of The United States of America. Throughout the years‚ it has been a heated debate in terms of whether the decision was morally correct and justified. Historians have analyzed and presented many arguments. In this short essay‚ I will attempt to expand on how historians feel about the decision by Truman to use atomic bombs. The revisionists bring into perspective and question the motivations of Harry Truman claiming he had

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    Harry S. Truman had to make some of the most difficult choices that any president has ever had to make. He was president from April 12‚ 1945 to January 20‚ 1953‚ he took over just before World War 2 ended‚ went through the Korean war‚ and went through part of the Cold war. When Truman took office Franklin D. Roosevelt died about three months after and close to the same time he had to make the choice of dropping the atomic bombs on Japan to end the war. Which to date are the only atomic bombs used

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    The time that President serves‚ they have many obligations to fill. Some of these obligations include: Chief Diplomat‚ Commander in Chief‚ Chief Executive‚ Chief Legislator‚ Chief of State‚ Head of Political Party‚ and Leader of the Free World. Among all the Presidents that America has had‚ there is no one to be able to explain these obligations better than Harry S. Truman. Chief Diplomat • Truman’s presidency was eventful in foreign affairs‚ with the end of World War II and his decisions

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    could have been much worse. In 1945 the United States faced the real possibility of having to invade Imperial Japan. Such an invasion would have to rival D-day in scale and cost untold thousands in American blood and treasure. However‚ President Harry S. Truman had an alternative. Over the past several years‚ working in secret‚ some of the greatest minds in science had developed a weapon. A bomb that could level cities‚ a bomb that changed the basic power of the universe‚ an atom bomb. Truman now had

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    Harry S Truman was short and resembled an owl with his thick round glasses. He spoke in the Midwesterner ’s flat‚ nasal tone. But he was definitely real‚ and established a reputation for speaking the truth. Born in Lamar‚ MO‚ on May 8‚ 1884‚ Truman was the oldest of three children of John Anderson and Martha Ellen (Young) Truman. His birthplace was just south of the area where his grandparents had moved from Kentucky four decades earlier. The letter "S" in his name was not an abbreviation. It because

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    When President Harry Truman made the decision to drop the first ever atomic bomb‚ did he saves lives or did he create a whole new Pandora’s box that we would continue to struggle with today? After gathering facts and meeting with our Allies such as the Soviet Union‚ he believed that dropping the atomic bomb would make the Japanese surrender quickly saving lives in the long run. There were many factors that went into the decision that President Truman made. After the bloody battles of Iwo

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    Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was a simple man from Missouri who‚ in his own words‚ stated “if ever there was a man forced to be President‚ I am that man” (Ferrell‚ 1980). During the 1944 election‚ the Democratic Party nominated Truman for the Vice Presidency against his wishes. His loyalty to the Party ran deep‚ however‚ so he humbly accepted and became Franklin Roosevelt’s running mate. It was no surprise when Roosevelt won his fourth term‚ but many people had never heard of Harry Truman. This

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