early August 1945 atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These two bombs quickly yielded the surrender of Japan and the end of American involvement in World War II. By 1946 the two bombs caused the death of perhaps as many as 240‚000 Japanese citizens1. The popular‚ or traditional‚ view that dominated the 1950s and 60s put forth by President Harry Truman and Secretary of War Henry Stimson was that the dropping of the bomb was a diplomatic maneuver aimed at
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Harbor was attack by Japanese air forces and after these brutal attacks the United States officially declared war on Japan and joined World War II. While America was fighting against Japan‚ President Roosevelt approved of the Manhattan Project which was the creation of the atomic bomb. The United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6‚ 1945 and on Nagasaki on August 9‚ 1945. After the bombs were dropped people throughout America argued on whether or not the United States should
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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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dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan is significant in many ways as it was a start of a new age of warfare. The dropping started a long journey into accepting that the world was going to advance technology. The dropping of the bomb made countries fear each other but it also stopped world war two. The impact of the atomic bomb on Japan is a reason why the bomb was significant because they were the trial run. The atomic bomb was powerful and caused suffering to thousands of people. The first bomb (which was
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To what extent was the atomic bomb used as a diplomatic ‘mater card’ by American policymakers at the end of the Second World War? In 1945‚ the unconditional surrender of German symbolized the victory of the war against Fascism in Europe. However‚ the situation in Far East was still extremely intention. In the 7th July of the same year‚ the leaders of American‚ Great Britain and Soviet Union ---- Truman‚ Churchill and Stalin held the third conference during the wartime in Potsdam. During the conference
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President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the direct cause for the end of World War II in the Pacific. The United States felt it was necessary to drop the atomic bombs on these two cities or it would suffer more casualties. Not only could the lives of many soldiers have been taken‚ but possibly the lives of many innocent Americans. The United States will always try to avoid the loss of American civilians at all costs‚ even if that means taking
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final grade. 1. What was the fuel used in the first nuclear bomb test? Plutonium 2. What was the nickname of the airplane that dropped the first atomic bomb? . Fat Man . 3. Which president authorized creation of the atomic bomb? Harry Truman 4. What was the code name of the project to develop the atomic bomb? Trinity 5. What process generates the heat and energy in present day nuclear power plants? nuclear fusion 6. When was the last U.S. nuclear bomb test? 1991 7
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The effects of the atomic bomb were terrible. There’s no doubt in my mind that the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a costly mistake. Atomic bombs produce heat millions of degrees high‚ and visible ultraviolet and inferred rays.(Lapp 844) Everyone and everything exposed to their blast is affected. No one is left untouched‚ whether it be emotional or physical; in many cases both. However‚ many members of the science community argue that the atomic bomb was a great advance in technology
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“The Atomic Bomb was not only used to attack Japan‚ but it also helped to scare Russia” (Article 2) World War 2 was a very bloody war from 1939-1945. In WW2 there were two sides. The ETO and the PTO. The ETO was when the U.S. and all the allied forces fought against Hitler to try and save/help fix Germany from what Hitler had done. While men and women were fighting in the ETO‚ there were men and women fighting in the PTO. On December 7th‚ 1941 Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor Hawaii. In doing that
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the Atomic Bomb Ryan McNall Southern Vermont College In our vast history of events‚ we have learned a lot about radiation. One event in time that had a big effect on what we know about radiation was when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ Japan in 1945. This attack started the nuclear warfare age and gave the world an idea of what radiation can do to your body if it is used in the wrong ways. Before the attack on Japan‚ the United States
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