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 to use nuclear weapons in combat‚ the founding of the United Nations‚ the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe‚ the Truman Doctrine to contain communism‚ the beginning of the Cold War‚ the creation of NATO‚ and the Korean War. • One of Truman’s
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to constantly make difficult decisions that often affect hundreds of millions of people. These decisions become even more plentiful and complicated when the U.S. is fighting a war. President Harry S. Truman was one such unlucky individual who had to step up and be the man to make the hard choices on what the U.S. was to do in the bloodiest war in history‚ World War II. He only held that position for the last six months of the war‚ but he had the toughest moral decision presented to any world leader
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Many people today could argue their side and reasons on why they think the United States was justified in bombing Japan. But was Osama in Laden justified in orchestrating 9/11? No one in their right mind would support the killing of innocent civilians on 9/11 on the basis of the argument that Osama Bin Laden and his cohort wanted to end the war between radical Islam and the U.S. So why is it acceptable for the U.S. to have incinerated tens of thousands of civilian men‚ women‚ children and babies
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and morale low the U.S. military decided to unleash the most destructive weapon the world has ever seen. The atomic bomb was a newly developed weapon able of causing destruction beyond any weapon before it. Two of these bombs were dropped on Japanese cities. The first on Hiroshima on August 6th‚ 1945 and the second on Nagasaki on August 9th‚ 1945. The immediate devastation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the only display of power that would cause the surrender of Japan. The psychological
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1942‚ the Manhattan Project‚ which was codename for the creation of the atomic bomb‚ began. The project was to create a high functioning bomb which caused mass destruction. As WWII came to a close‚ with Japan and the United States the only remaining countries in combat‚ neither showed signs of surrendering. Something had to be done to end the war‚ so the United States dropped the atomic bomb. It was justifiable to drop the bomb because neither country showed signs of surrendering and the war would
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to drop the atomic bomb on Japan or not. There are many factors that have been taken into consideration based off of the economic stress‚ the losses and the constant pressure to fight for democracy across the communistic nations. The factors that justified the government in creating The Manhattan Project are morally justified in commitment to the American people for the great loss in Pearl Harbor and among the many battles fought afterwards; America at this time sought out any decision as morally
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began a secret plan called the “Manhattan project‚” which would become the most pivotal dangerous weapon on earth and become the saving grace of the war? What were the leading factors in the United States dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima‚ Japan? The U.S. made its decision‚ these causing factors; to end the war quickly as possible‚ they lived by the Bushido code‚ the "Pacific Theater of Operations" was grueling and an insurmountable mountain to climb in duration and endurance‚ wanted
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the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945? The dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 by the Americans is a very controversial issue with no definite answer. Both sides of the issue have very justifiable arguments. Reasons for dropping the bomb include the fact that Truman’s options were limited at this point in the war‚ that the bomb did have the desired outcome of Japans surrender and that the majority of reasons America had for dropping the bomb are justifiable
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Radio Bikini is a movie from 1988 by Robert Stone about two atomic tests (“Able” and “Baker”) that the United States government did under the name of “Operation Crossroads”. If you were to go to Google and type in the words “Atomic Bomb” you would come up with a list of over 12‚700‚000 links‚ with the vast majority of them being about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While‚ Hiroshima and Nagasaki are very important in the history of the atomic bomb; there is another significantly more important location that
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in 1945‚ an atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima‚ Japan; three days later a second bombing occurred in Nagasaki‚ Japan. These bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only changed the physical and emotional health of the Japanese people‚ they also changed the world. In my essay‚ I’m going to be discussing in what ways the dropping of the atomic bombs was significant and which of these is the most important My first paragraph is going to be about the massive impact the atomic bomb had on Japan itself
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