This investigation will explore the question: To what extent was President Truman’s decision to the drop atomic bomb to save lives and hasten the end of World War Two? The pressures and outcomes of dropping the explosive on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945‚ will be the focus of this investigation. The first source is Thomas Holmes article‚ “The Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan”‚ published in 2005 in the United States. The origin is valuable because Holmes is an American historian and social studies
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The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were necessary. The bombs were the U.S. trying to end a period of darkness in human history. The U.S. made a judgement call to either keep on with the war and putting with pro long war and more casualties‚ or to just end it all and make them surrender the hard way. The use of atomic bombs was something that the U.S. thought was appropriate to save everyone from the costs of more war and the destruction of the world. This was a consequence that was
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Hiroshima: Was Dropping the Atomic Bomb a Military Necessity? On the morning of August 6th‚ 1945 at around 8:16 a.m.‚ the United States dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima. This bomb was given the nickname “Little Boy.” Three days after the first atomic bomb was dropped‚ on August 9th‚ 1945 at around 11:02 a.m.‚ the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This bomb was given the nickname “Fat Man.” These two bombs immensely destroyed these cities and took the lives of many people
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112 25 0ctober 2014 The Atomic Bombings Were Necessary To the dismay of many people on August 6‚ 1945‚ the first atomic bomb was used in the history of mankind as a part of warfare. Many people died as a result of these bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ and because of the bombings‚ Japan knew it had been defeated‚ so it soon afterwards surrendered to America. I believe that the bombings were necessary in order to make Japan surrender because Harry Truman‚ the President of the United States of
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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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John Evans Mrs. Heilmann Honors English 9 April 29 2013 Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki The atomic bombings on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war. These two bombings were both conducted by the United States in an attempt to force surrender from Japan. It is estimated that as many as 200‚000 Japanese civilians died as a result of the two bombings‚ thousands more were also killed by radiation poisoning following the actual bombing. This
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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 in
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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 a choice before him: unleash this new weapon in an attempt to force Japan to surrender or
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In 1941‚ Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. This prompted the United States to enter World War II. Four years later and still at war‚ the President Franklin Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein explaining efforts in Nazi Germany to build an atomic bomb. The United States Government soon after began a very secretive project known as “The Manhattan Project”. They developed a new weapon‚ which was called the nuclear bomb. The United States made two of these weapons‚ “Little Boy” which consisted
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President Truman’s primary goal was to quickly bring an end to the war and reduce American casualties in doing so‚ thus the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary‚ yet repercussions still continue to be debated among many scholars today. Due to the importance of the Manhattan Project remaining a secret‚ President Truman was not informed of the project until after he became president. The atomic bomb was not an infallible plan to force Japan to surrender unconditionally‚ so the American military
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