The atomic bomb dropped on Japan was the correlated decision of the president at the time‚ Harry Truman‚ and his chief advisors. While the pros and cons were weighed heavily‚ it was decided that the least blood shed would be wrought if we shed the most blood on the first strike. On August 6‚ 1945‚ the enola gay‚ a class B-29 heavy bomber‚ departed from Tinian‚ an island to the southeast of Japan‚ carrying a heavy payload which would effectively be the beginning of the end of Japan’s war against the
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Was America justified in dropping the horrific atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Should the bombs have been used? The answer to that is undoubtedly clear: no. The bombs did more harm than good. The US had conducted “the world’s most devastating military mission”1‚ effects of which are still evident today. World War II was primarily caused by Germany‚ Italy and Japan‚ influenced by fascist revolutions. While Germany and Italy dealt with matters in Europe‚ Japan had plunged itself in a Pacific
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possibility that a bomb made with uranium could be created was considered in 1939‚ when WW2 broke out in Europe Two Hungarian physicists Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner‚ alerted the US government to the possibility of an atomic bomb. President Roosevelt then set up a program to study uranium and the possibility of an atomic bomb. This started the series of events leading to the atomic bomb. American scientists‚ under this committee discovered that uranium-235(U-235)‚ the type used in the atomic bomb‚ is one
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World War II ended with the United States dropping two atomic bombs on Japan. These bombs killed more than 150‚000 people instantly‚ killing more over time with radiation(CNN). While there were obviously military and economic reasons for using these powerful weapons‚ the use of two shows what the primary reason was. The American Government saw the beginnings of the Cold War and wanted to try and get ahead of the Soviet Union before it even began. The bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were researched
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When World War II ends the United States and the Soviet Union became enemies‚ better knows as the Cold War. It consisted on the constant tension between both countries in starting a war. Both sides had power in nuclear weapons which made people be afraid of the start of a nuclear war. Also both countries disagree in many things. The Soviet Union had a Dictator‚ one political party (Communist) and an economic system (socialism) in which the government run all the industries. USA had an elected president
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In the 1945 the United States of America dropped atomic bombs on Japan. What if the United States shared their knowledge of Atomic energy with the rest of the world and it became the main resource of the world. Atomic energy would be used to power cars‚ houses‚ even phones. The world would advance probably in a bigger more clucky way. Things would need to be bigger because its all powered by atomic energy. There would be a lot less pollution because Atomic energy is all clean. Nations would not invade
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Women in the Soviet Dictatorship How were the lives of Soviet women affected by the policies of the Stalin era? Document 1 Source: Izvestiia‚ “Old Way of Life‚” March 8‚ 1930. Document 2 Source: Pravda‚ "On the Path to a Great Emancipation‚" March 8‚ 1929. Today is international communist women’s day‚ the international day for working women. Today is a holiday in honor of one-half of the international proletarian army and in honor of the women
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The USSR stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics consisting of Russia and the surrounding countries. It was founded five years after the Russian Revolution. World War II lasted six years and almost all the countries of the world were engaged in it. It was a war between the Axis Powers (mainly Germany‚ Italy‚ and Japan) and the Allies (mainly England‚ U.S.‚ and USSR). But today I will be focusing on the Soviet Union. They played a very dramatic role in the war and more people should know about
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was Klaus Fuchs. Klaus Fuchs was responsible for providing the Soviet Union with crucial information about the Manhattan project and the development of the atom bomb‚ the importance and value of the information that he gave the Russians is unfathomable. “By handing over the secret of the plutonium bomb and implosion to the Soviets‚ Fuchs allowed the Soviet bomb project to skip the length and astounding expensive development stage that had led the Manhattan project to that solution.” Fuchs alone
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1946 less than a year after the Atomic Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ John Hersey wrote a book that tells the stories of six different survivors of the bomb. He tells about what was happing right before the bomb was dropped‚ how they survived and tracked their lives after this tragic event. Reading through this amazing description on Hiroshima has been the only time I am not proud to be an American. Seeing the devastation that was caused by the Country I call home was really hard. Countless lives were
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