Then the question of the ethical use of the bomb emerged. Many scholars agreed that “it is clear that alternatives to the bomb existed and that Truman and his advisers knew it.” Men like Barton J. Bernstein began to counter many arguments for the use of the atomic bomb‚ including using the bomb to intimidate Russia. https://www.nps.gov/articles/trumanatomicbomb.htmHowever‚ the Truman was given four alternatives which included conventional bombing of the Japanese home islands‚ ground invasion of
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Was Appeasement a ‘Mistake’? H/W 07.03.13 There are many arguments for and against appeasement before WW2. Appeasement was a policy between Britain‚ France and Germany. The policy meant that the allies would give Germany what they wanted as long as they didn’t start a war or cause trouble. The Dictionary definition of appeasement is: (Government‚ Politics & Diplomacy) the policy of acceding to the demands of a potentially hostile nation in the hope of maintaining peace. Many people now
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it is justified. One reason I think it is justified is that it saved Japanese and American lives. It saved Japanese lives because it shortened the war which would of killed more than 18‚000 soldiers. Millions of Japanese soldiers would have been killed if they had more battles. Also that was the most number of soldiers that had died in one battle‚ 6‚800‚ of The battle of Iwo Jima. The US then got worried about the soldiers so President Truman decided that he had no other choice than to bomb the
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“To what extent was the U.S. justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?” The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki dropped or not‚ were ones of the man-made disasters that occurred on August 6 1945‚ and August 9 1945 respectively. The launching of the atomic bomb has numerous opinions and aspects on whether United States of America should be justified for launching atomic bombs on those cities or not. The essay question for our class is‚ “To what extent was the United States
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Both ‘’Hiroshima’’ and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb’’ were interesting works to read because they discuss two different views upon World War II. However‚ both works correlate to each other because at the end their message is simple: war inevitably causes death. Upon reading these works‚ I thought to myself how World War II is taught in the simplest form during history class in middle school. I never had a professor who explicitly went into detail of the horrors of World War II‚ therefore taking
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The Dropping of the Atomic Bombs during WWII On August 6th 1945 the United States‚ under President Harry S. Truman‚ dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima‚ a fairly large city in Japan. Three days later on August 9th‚ a second atomic bomb was dropped on another Japanese city‚ Nagasaki. A big question that is still argued today is whether the droppings of the two atomic bombs‚ that forced the Japanese to surrender‚ were a necessary act. Many historians and politicians argue this point
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President Harry Truman is justified for sending atomic bombs from the United States to Japan civilian cities. Two parts of Japan in particular named Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targeted to kill off the civilians. The bombs were supposed to target a certain range of people‚ the hiroshima ranged from 90‚000 to 146‚000 and the Nagasaki ranged from 39‚000 to 80‚000 deaths. These bombs initiated the action of surrender from Japan and this happened on August 15‚ 1945. There are documents that prove Harry
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Drop the Atom Bomb HIS/120 Truman’s Decision to Drop the Atom Bomb On August 6‚ 1945 the B-29 Bomber the Enola Gay dropped the first Atomic bomb on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. Three days later the second atom bomb was dropped off the city of Nagasaki causing the conditional surrender of the Japanese. Weighing the Outcomes The Japanese were a very fierce adversary‚ the culture in which the only purpose of Japanese people was to support their Emperor. The ruler of Japan was their supreme
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Was Truman justified in his decision to drop the Atomic Bomb? On August 6th‚ 1945‚ the United States dropped the first ever Atomic weapon on Hiroshima‚ Japan. 140‚000 people lost their lives‚ most of which were civilians. President Truman was in charge of this major decision‚ and he made the correct choice. The alternative solutions were much too costly for the United States‚ both in expenses and American casualties. Another reason Truman’s decision is justified was due to the declination of the
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nations to figure out how to create a bomb‚ America won‚ with it’s elite team of scientists including Robert Oppenheimer and many others. After Otto Hahn‚ a German Physicist‚ discovered nuclear fission in 1944‚ which lead to him receiving the Nobel Peace Prize‚ the Manhattan Project was able to be a success. With this new power America was finally was finally able to end the war by bombing Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Not only did the creation of the atomic bomb greatly impact Japan‚ it has changed the
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