Russo Japanese War Pros And Cons

This essay we will be discussing the pros and the cons of President Truman’s ethical decision to drop the bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. There were many people against dropping the bomb on Japan as well as people in favor of bombing. I believe that President Truman made the correct decision when bombing the country of Japan. President Truman had to make decisions based on what would be right for the people of the United States and what is also helpful to the United States military. There were many decisions that were deemed either ethical or unethical made by President Truman going into the dropping of the atomic bomb.

Imagine if people consider you guilty of sabotaging your country without a fair trial. Your home was searched against your will. And you were denied rights as straightforward as freedom of speech. That’s what the Japanese underwent during WWII. 120,000 Japanese Americans were taken from their homes and brought to concentration camps in remote locations that were in in harsh environments. That all happened because they were considered possible spies, sent from Japan. On December 7th, 1941, Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese military. War hysteria, failure of leadership, and preexisting racism was mostly why the reason why so many Japanese Americans were put into concentration camps. Our country was trying to balance common good with individual rights of the people. But, the common good was valued more than people’s during World War II. Most of the time, The United States government does a favorable job balancing people’s rights and the good of the nation. For example, we pay taxes to support our government, and the government protects us (ex: the police force) But during WWII, the US broke more than half the amendments in the bill of rights. Some of the major ones being the 4th amendment (search and seizure,) the 1st amendment (mainly freedom of speech) and the 6th amendment (right to a speedy and fair trial) Why, in the land of the free was a large amount of citizens denied basic constitutional rights for so long?

Clausewitz’s thoughts on war termination effectively summarize the situation for the Japanese and Russian Empires preceding peace negotiations, “Inability to carry on the struggle can, in practice, be

By industrializing, Russia was able to extend its influence in eastern Asia and seizing new territories in northern China. Japan reformed after seeing China’s foreign power so they kicked out all foreigners and built its own military. In Japan, an American commodore, Matthew Perry threatened to bomb Japan in 1853, unless Japan allowed access to trade for the Americans which created military superiority of the West. Therefore, Perry won the right to have the Americans to trade which allowed two ports to open with other European countries of Britain, Holland and Russia. In Japan, they had many signs of improvement with the Western influence of new banks to fund trade and private investment capital, railways and steam vessels improved national communication and helped with trade since Japan lacked many resources.

Japan’s industrialization was more rapid and united than Russia’s because Japan was a smaller, more unified nation with a homogenous culture and thus could more rapidly modernize. Although some samurai rebelled against the Meiji, overall there was less pushback against the emperor’s policies of Westernization. Japan’s nationalism in its desire to better itself and compete on the world stage with the European powers was representative in its culture and helped push industrialization along. Russia, in contrast, was a multiethnic, sprawling empire with multiple peoples and cultures, ones that were much more inclined toward discontent. For example, the serfs, although they were later emancipated, were largely unhappy with poor working conditions in factories and living conditions. As a result, they rebelled and the Russian government was forced to enact a program of repression to put down the rebellions. Because Russia was so large and spread out, disunified, modernization took longer to take hold. Thus, when both countries tried to expand into Korea and Manchuria for natural resources and fresh markets, Japan won. The Russo-Japanese War was one of the first tests of the newly industrialized militaries, and Japan’s victory not only set it on the world stage with the respect of the Europeans, but

Even though the direct result of the Treaty of Portsmouth was that it brought an end to the Russo-Japanese war, there were many other consequences. Japan acquired the lands of Manchuria and Korea while Russia was able to keep a portion of Sakhalin Island. President Roosevelt not only won the Nobel Peace Prize for his action, but this started an international relationship between Japan and the United States. As both of their influences and beliefs spread through Asia, they both agreed to respect each other’s claimed territories and interests.

I believe that the decision made by the United States to bomb Japan was not thought through well enough and could have been approached differently. There were many possible alternatives to setting off the bombs that could have saved many innocent lives or at least lowered the death toll of Japan. One alternative that could have been more successful was if the United states had chosen to continue conventional bombing. There was a survey taken in Japan, called the Strategic Bombing Survey, that proved Japan was more than likely to surrender soon due to the pressure of the United States dropping continuous, conventional bombs (Arguments Against the Bomb: Argument #4.4). If truman had decided to wait and continue to use conventional bombing, the

The dropping of the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justifiable. The Emperor of Japan, Emperor hirohito would have never have accepted to surrender. Another reason is that Japan had killed a lot of people during Pearl Harbor. Overall the bombing’s actually saved both lives the Americans and Japanese due to the bombing of Japan it ended WW2 overall. In 1945, so that's when Japan leaders knew they were not going to win WW2.

The Russo – Japanese war saw Russia lose to Japan. Russia saw itself as a great and powerful country, compared to others, Russia wanted to expand it empire over the Far East. Russia and Japan went to war over the control of China and Korea. Russia saw its military as superior; however Russia suffered a humiliating defeat. January 1905 Russia was forced to surrender their Port Arthur Naval

Japanese went and visited to Europe and the United States to find out more about technological and industrial developments in these world fairs they were holding. Japans strong desire for success provoked neighbors like China and Russia. The Russians had built the Trans-Siberian Railroad that sent Russian colonizers who contributed to Anti-Japanese groups in Korea. In the battle of Tsushima, the Japanese destroyed the Russian fleet who traveled halfway around the globe to be defeated in. Opening an era of Japanese domination in East Asian Politics, the victory was the first by a none – European nation over a European great power in the modern age (736).

The Russo-Japanese War The Russo Japanese war was a conflict between Russia and Japan in 1904-1905. The cause of the war was because Russia wanted to expand into Asia and ran into Japanese plans for gaining a foothold on Asia main land. In 1898 Russia leased Port Arthur from china, with the intention of making it into a great Asiatic port and the headquarters of Russian naval power in the pacific. Russia already had troops in Manchuria during the boxer rebellion in 1900, but Russia had to face the anglo-japanese alliance of 1902, which promised to leave Chinese territory. The promise was not kept and in June 1903 Japan proposed a mutual agreement recognising japans interest in Korea and

While Japan had several significant, tactically decisive military victories throughout the war and had achieved several of their limited objectives, they failed to achieve all them. Most important (and injuring) to the Japanese, was that Russia was not forced to pay indemnity for the war. This was something that the Tsar Nicholas the II was vehemently against going into the negotiations (Warner, 531)

Sakhalin Island is located just off the east coast of Russia, and just north of the Japan mainland. Having been claimed by both Russia and Japan previously, the island currently lay in control of the Russians as part of the 1875 Treaty of St. Petersburg. Following the battle of Tsushima, Japan made the decision to invade Sakhalin. (Warner,527)

If there is one war that truly set an example of what the world was to experience in the 20th century, that would have to be the Russo-Japanese War. The war, while simply between two nations, had far reaching consequences for both nations involved. While Russia was faced with large internal unrest the war became a temporary distraction, which returned at a much-heightened level following the war. Japan on the other hand, desired to be an Asian imperial power, and was increasingly making advances onto the mainland seeking control over Manchuria and the Korean Peninsula, bringing direct conflict with Russia who bordered those territories. With both nations fighting for such different reasons no single political theory can explain why the war broke out.

The Second Sino-Japanese war began on July 7th, 1937 and ended on September 9th, 1945. It was a military conflict which was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. As part of the struggle against fascism, Japan invaded China. It is clear that, due to the restriction of its natural resources, Japan tried to increase by robbing resources from other countries. Japan used the conquered Manchuria as a launching base for their troops. Manchuria was an enormous region that consisted of three provinces- Liaoning in the south, Jilin in the middle and Heilongjiang in the north. In 1905, when Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese war, Russia, which used Manchuria for business and