The President Of The United States

Dropping the atomic bomb on Japan was wrong. The United States needed a way to end the war, but killing innocent civilians is not morally right. When we dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, ninety-five percent of the people who died were civilians (Kauffman, Jill). President Truman said the bomb targeted military cities, but that does not make up for the fact that he was wrong (Ragone). Admiral William Leahy, Truman’s Chief, said it perfectly when he said “…wars cannot be won by destroying women and children” (Kauffman, Jill). Bringing President Harrison Truman to power was one of the biggest issues. Truman was only Vice President for three months before being called to duty (Ragone). When asked about his job as Vice President he said “I don’t

One of the most controversial and heavily scrutinized issue of the twentieth century was President Harry S. Truman’s decision to unleash atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The motives behind Truman’s actions are shrouded in controversy as top military officials publicly denounced the use of such a disastrous weapon. There is overwhelming evidence supporting both sides of the decision, as historians are split in opinion. The United States had been using conventional bombing to try to push Japan over the edge to surrender, but with countless Japanese civilians loyal to their country, invading Japan proved to be more problematic than first thought. Harry S. Truman made the ultimate decision of dropping the atomic bomb in hopes that it would end the war, but the amount of casualties caused by it has historians questioning if it was morally right, “The bomb was unfortunate, but it was the only means to bring Japan to a surrender,” historian Sadao Asada states (Bomb 9). Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were justifiable because they would ultimately lead to the end of the war and would demonstrate U.S. supremacy.

1. Long after World War II and the use of the atomic bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a great debate remains. It seems that there are two main potential arguments as to why the bombs were detonated and whether or not they were even necessary to begin with. The first theory surrounds the notion of the national security interests of the United States. In this theory essentially, Truman’s actions had been defended and justified as necessary in order to quickly end the war with U.S. causalities kept to a minimum.

On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. It was indeed a great shock to the United States, many documents show that the bombing on Pearl Harbor was an attempt to stop the United States from entering into World War II. This attack was the turning in point World War II, and United States making the decision to help the Allies. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because of its narcissistic political mentality and angered by United States placing the embargo act on oil.

President Harry Truman decided to try out the atomic bomb on Japan after being involved in many tragic battles against them. One of the horrific attacks was on the morning of December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor, a naval base in Hawaii, was unexpectedly bombed by the Japanese. When the attack was over, 2,403 Americans died. A day later, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared war against Japan. In his speech, Roosevelt described the attack to 81 million Americans listening on the radio as sudden and deliberated for weeks in advance. For the next four years, the war between the U.S. and Japan raged on.

This investigation assesses President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It will determine whether or not his decision was justified. This investigation will scrutinize the reasons that made Harry Truman feel inclined to drop atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Preventing further casualties along with the desire to end the war are two argumentative points that will be analyzed to determine if they were strong enough to justify the dropping

Was Truman right to use the atomic bomb on Japan ? Just imagine only being president for twelve days and having to decide whether or not you should launch something so powerful it could end a war. You could either keep fighting for an amount of time that no one would know or you could stop all the fighting by bombing Japan and get some leverage on our other enemies like Russia. Truman made a good decision by dropping the bomb because we were able to get ahead of everyone else, and we could have been left fighting for even longer.

On August 6, 1945 and August 9, 1945, the two bombs code named “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” were dropped on the Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since then, there has been controversy over whether the bombs should of been dropped. People often question Truman’s decisions- I don’t. A common counter is, so many citizens died. Although that is valid, people of the opposition don’t realize that it is a war, innocent people are bound to be killed. Truman’s actions are completely justifiable and were definitely the right thing to do.

On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, then on August 9, 1945, the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945, ending World War II. It is estimated that 200,000 lives were taken in both of the bombings. Prior to these bombings, during the Potsdam Declaration, Truman advised Japan that they would face “prompt and utter destruction” if they did not surrender. ( Miller Center, 2016 ) 1. ( The White House, 2016 ) 2

On August 6, 1945, following the attacks on Pearl Harbor the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan purposely in the means to end the war relatively quickly saving countless lives of American citizens. In the Truman Presidency, many began to question if the president made the right call on the use of the atomic bombs. In this case where a plethora of lives were lost in the Pearl Harbor attack America was indeed in need of a solution that would end the war. The decision President Truman made on the atomic bombs was right in the idea that many more lives could have been at risk in later events if the Japanese hadn’t surrendered when they did. In fact, if the Truman Administration would have waited on ta decision to respond

The decision to use the atom bomb had a few moral dilemmas for President Truman. Some of these were unleashing a new massive destructive weapon for the first time that would take the lives of thousands, but this would possibly end the war. On April 12, 1945 President Roosevelt suddenly died and Harry Truman became the president of the United States. Just after becoming president Germany had just been defeated ending the war in Europe.

On December 7, 1941, The Japanese launched a surprise attack on the naval base stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attacked launched America into World War Two. The attack on Pearl Harbor brought forth an astounding amount of change to both the United States and Japan. The United States became the biggest power in the Pacific and it eventually led to the military advancements such as the atom bomb.

In December of 1941, Japanese forces bombed the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor. This attack killed over 2,000 and injured a small amount under that. This was the last reason to convince the United States to enter the war, and they did so just the next day. From this day, a day that will live in infamy, the United States, and Japanese were at a war with each other in the Pacific Theater. Japan kept prisoners of war and starved and beat them. Japan, with their culture of determination and dedication to their country, were refusing to give up. Harry S. Truman assumed the role as President after the death of FDR. Truman was presented with a hard situation. After learning the United States was capable of producing an atomic

On August 6th, 1945 the United States military dropped the first atomic bomb as an act of war on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. 3 days later, the second and last to date, atomic bomb was dropped onto Nagasaki, Japan. Under the direction of President Harry Truman, the atomic bombs were dropped in response to the disregarded ultimatum

On December 7th, 1941, Japan bombed the United States Army, Air Force, and Naval Bases, in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor. The next day on December 8th, 1941, the U.S. entered World War II declaring war on Japan as they provoked us to do so with their sneaky aerial attack. Behind the scenes of the extensive fighting, American