General Douglas Macarthur Case Study

Although many of the people who advised Truman supported the use of the bomb their was also another school of thought. One of the most prominent figures to disagree with the use of the atomic bomb in the Pacific was General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Western Europe. Eisenhower believed that in July, 1945 Japan was on the verge of surrender and that the use of the atomic bomb would not be necessary to force them to surrender. He saw no need for a military invasion to force this surrender and therefore did not view the deployment of the atomic bomb as a necessary measure to save American lives. Eisenhower also seemed to understand the great destruction that this bomb would cause and hoped that the United States would not be the first nation to use this technology to wage war. General MacArthur, Pacific Commander in Chief agreed with Eisenhower that Japan was on the verge of collapse. Despite his key military role he was not consulted as to whether

On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, bringing the United States into World War II (Prange et al., 1981: p.174). On February 19, 1942, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing the Secretary of War and Military Commanders to prescribe areas of land as excludable military zones (Roosevelt, 1942). Effectively, this order sanctioned the identification, deportation, and internment of innocent Japanese Americans in War Relocation Camps across the western half of the United States. During the spring and summer of 1942, it is estimated that almost 120,000 Japanese Americans were relocated from their homes along the West Coast and in Hawaii and

Japanese forces to surrender or prepare for a new lethal weapon at the Potsdam Convention

The war in the Pacific is considered to be the most unique war of all wars. On December 7th, 1941, Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. This event led the U.S. to declare war on them. For the next 4 years, both sides had encountered battles that depleted resources from both sides. Having enough, President Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb onto Japan, hoping that the enemy will surrender. This decision led to the question, was dropping the bombs a necessity? And the answer to this question is yes. The reasons as to why the bombing was necessary were due to the savage behavior of the U.S. Solders, Destroying the Japanese Superiority, the depletion of resources and soldiers and the increase of expenses.

In 1945, World War Two was coming to an end. Following Adolf Hitler’s suicide, and Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 7, 1945, the war in Europe was finally over. The allies began began postwar planning for future, as well as establishment of post-war order and peace treaties issues. America’s war wasn’t done yet as they were still fighting Japan, eventually pushing them back to their main island. The Japanese’ plans of defending themselves was a group of final decisive battles on the Japanese mainland utilizing all people in Japan to fight to death against the Americans. Fearing costly land battles,

Our president during World War II was Franklin D. Roosevelt. On February 19, 1942, he “authorized the internment of ten of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan.”1 The attack on Pearl Harbor incited the fear against Japanese Americans, because the United States believed that Japanese Americans would turn their backs on the U.S. and be a threat to the security. This authorization was called the Presidential Executive Order 9066. Even though there was no evidence that they imposed threat, the military’s command was to take over and invade Japanese homes. The Japanese were ordered to live in internment camps in the West Coast. These camps were in horrible conditions and fenced with barbed wire. In the camps, the Japanese-American civilians created their own small city with their own doctors, food, and teachers.

On September 1st, 1939 Germany invades Poland as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory, this was single handedly the event that led to World War II. December 7th, 1941 the Japanese navy bombed Pearl Harbor due to the fact that they did not like the fact that America had claimed Hawaii to be a part of the United States. This event led to that US using Japanese Internment Camps because they were afraid of an invasion of the west by the Japanese and were afraid that Japanese immigrants would provide aid to such an invasion. On February 19th, 1942 exactly ten weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive order 9066. This order authorized the removal of any and all people from military areas. The entire West Coast became defined as a military area. This area was home to as vast majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry or citizenship.

On August 15th Japan surrendered, and on September 2nd, 1945 they signed the “Instrument of Surrender”. Hospitals were filled with patients who had not seemed sick before. People vomited, bled from their gums, and spots had begun to appear on their skin. Later Japanese doctors discovered that the people were dying from radiation that came from the atomic bomb. {look up: conspiracy theory} When considering using the atomic bombs, President Truman took into account the lowest possible cost for ending the war, he also wanted to end the war quickly. Truman once stated, “When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast.” After the Pearl Harbor invasion. The U.S. started with “Operation Downfall,” invading Kyushu, many casualties where estimated, but this war proved to be even more deadly than predicted. General MacArthur thought that dropping more bombs, and using air power by itself would protect American lives, while also bringing forth a quicker surrender from the Japanese. When I look at both sides of the 1945 Japan bombing I really tried to stay open about the different viewpoints. The fact that the U.S., Britain, and the Netherlands crippled Japan was interesting to find. I felt that the Japanese did not want to compromise, and in some way bit the hands that fed them. It seems these allies had allot of power. The Japanese seemed to only

Ten weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable.” The military in turn defined the entire West Coast, home to the majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry or citizenship, as a military area. By June, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were relocated to remote internment camps built by the U.S. military in scattered locations around the country. For the next two and a half years, many of these Japanese Americans endured extremely difficult living conditions and poor treatment by their military guards.

The military had a unique plan created by General MacArthur “to island-hop all the way to Japan, capturing each of those islands as they went” (Page 55). In Sioux Code Talkers of World War II, Page explains all the different islands throughout the world that the United States had to take back from the Axis Powers like New Guinea, Leyte, Luzon, and the Philippines. The United States also saved many people that had been captured by the Axis Powers. The Santo Tomas Internment Camp in the Philippines was a huge victory when they were able to save all the people captured within being deprived of food, water, and shelter; “Go to Manila, Go around the nips, bounce off the Nips, but go to Manila, MacArthur insisted” (Page 77). The United States traveled from island to island fighting the Axis Powers and saving innocent people from dying.

On February 19th, 1942, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066, initiating a controversial World War 2 policy which singles out and placed consequences upon Japanese Americans. This document ordered and authorized the removal of resident enemy, any or all people from parts of the West which were identified as military areas.

-Gave the Military (particularly the west coast) the power to establish military zones in which mainly Japanese Americans and non Americans alike, would be deported to internment camps.

On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The next day, the United States and Britain declared war on Japan. Two months later, on February 19, 1942, the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans were dramatically changed when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This order led to the assembly and evacuation and relocation of nearly 122,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry on the west coast of the United States. (1)

“Studies point to the fact that only West Coast Issei and Nisei were removed-not those living in Hawaii or on the East Coast-and that the residents calling for their removal were California nativists, laborers, and farmers, who had long viewed Japanese immigrants as social and economic threats” (Hay 15-17). "Signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066, or the Japanese Internment Order, authorized the secretary of war to prescribe military areas and was presented to the public as a necessary wartime measure to aid the United States in fighting World War II. The order was used to authorize the internment of over 100,000 Japanese Americans during the war. Both the U.S. government and much of the public feared that Japanese Americans would commit acts of sabotage in the United States to undermine the U.S. war effort and assist the Japanese. Instead, the government forced Japanese Americans into camps throughout the West, where they suffered from deprivation, despair, and disease for much of the war, even as Japanese-American units distinguished themselves in the U.S. military”

On February 19, 1942, President, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This gave the Secretary of War in charge of deciding where the military zones would be and who should be removed. This gave the military power over the Attorney General to make these decisions without any hearings or due process. Congress allowed this power. It gave the military the power to impose restrictions on anyone that deemed a threat. When the evacuations of the Japanese-Americans began on March 22, 1942 the propaganda started by the newsreels announcing fear and contempt. This resulted in mayhem, theft, and loss. The Japanese-Americans were allowed to take to the camps what they could carry on their backs. This meant they had to make arrangements to