Our President of 1938, Harry Truman, agreed to use the Atomic Bomb for the use of Warfare. I agree with this act because it saved so many lives and put the U.S. in the lead of World War II. The Japanese wanted to attack the U.S.A. at the island of Midway. The U.S. found this out by getting into their messages and cracking their code. President Truman made a huge decision and decided to drop two bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man. The U.S. decided to attack Okinawa and Iwo Jima. Okinawa became one the of the most deadly battles of World War 2. As a matter of fact, my grandpa, Silvio Giusti was a machine gunner in the battle of Okinawa. The Japanese had Kamikazes, who were suicidal plane bombers. The Kamikaze pilots practiced Bushido. Emperor Hirohito
In World War II, President Truman had to decide whether to use a powerful new weapon called the atomic bomb. This decision is still being debated today. Truman made the right choice to drop the atomic bombs because it helped end the war faster and saved lives in the long run (Document E). One reason is that the president said using the bomb would end the war quicker and save lives. If they didn't use the bomb then the U.S. had to invade Japan, it could cost up to a million American lives (Document D)
Atomic Bomb DBQ When it happened, it was August 6, 1945. At Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs. The people that were involved were Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and Truman. The reason it happened was that Truman was getting revenge because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
The Pacific War was a series of bloody battles, unlike any other in American history, that was fought in many obscure areas between Japan and The United States of America. It dated from 1941 to 1945. The theatre of war in the Pacific was significantly different compared to any battle in Europe during World War II. If given the choice, any soldier would prefer to battle in Europe, a less treacherous and foreign land, compared to the islands and unfamiliarity in the Pacific. Japanese territory consisted of jungles, caves, and volcanic mountains that were exceedingly difficult to fight on.
Why President Truman Decided to Drop Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki At 02:45 August 6th 1945, the B-29 Superfortress the Enola Gay took off from the specially lengthened North Field on the Island of Tinian in the Marianas. The plane piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets was 7 tons. At 0815 hours the bomb doors of the B-29 opened and flying at approximately 32,000 ft the uranium based atom bomb code-named “Little Boy” was unleashed upon the city of Hiroshima. Over 70,000 men women and children were killed by blast alone.
America's decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan was only done to assert our position over the Soviet Union, and Japan's surrender was only an extra accomplishment of the attack. During the years 1939 to 1947, numerous conferences were held to discuss diplomatic matters, and the strive towards getting Japan to accept an unconditional surrender. The Japanese had already been weakened, and the military predicted that they would eventually be forced to surrender in a short amount of time. Even the scientists who worked on the atomic bomb agreed that it was unnecessary to drop the bomb on Japan, since their surrender would be evident in the near future. Therefore, the United States' decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan had nothing to do
Webster’s dictionary defines hindsight as “the ability to understand, after something has happened, what should have been done or what caused the event”. It is a fair assumption that most people understand the old adage “hindsight is always 20/20”; alluding to the fact that, in our everyday lives, we as humans make decisions based on what we know, what seems right and occasionally what makes our lives easier. The average person does not have the mental capability to consider every possible outcome that a choice will have on his entire life, all within the thought process that leads him to reach a conclusion, however long and detailed that process may be. If we add massive amounts of pressure, contradictory advisement, the lives of
Many debates have been provoked based on President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The debate is not solely based on the bomb being dropped, but more on the actual necessity and intention of the bomb being dropped.
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,
During WW2 Truman, the United States President at the time, was asked to make one the toughest decision in History. Choosing between dropping an atomic bomb or invading are both choices that will result in a lot of deaths. The huge diffrence between the two was who died wether it be the Japanese with the bomb, or the American soldiers with the invasion. Trumans decision was supposed to end the war sooner, hence reducing the amount of agony,deaths, stress or any other negative effects that could result in the continous war. Truman's decision on dropping the Atomic Bomb's was an efficient course of action for the Americans, but was deffinantly not the most educated decision. If I had been placed in Truman's shoes and had to make this
There have been many controversies in world history. Like if the Soviets instigated the six day war to destroy Israel 's nuclear power plants or if the South Koreans provoked the North Koreans to invade them to spark the Korean War. Maybe the biggest controversy of all time was if President Truman was actually justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president from the beginning of World War Two and had to deal with a lot of the war. Shortly after the Pearl Harbor attacks Japan came at the United States with everything they had, attempting to cripple us once and for all. What they didn’t know was that, even though the United States were vastly outnumbered, they had also deployed everything they had, aircraft carriers, planes and battle ships. This was known as the Battle of Midway and after four days of fighting, the U.S. were able to cripple the Japanese well enough that they retreated. The United States destroyed four carriers, a heavy cruiser and more than 200 planes (Poolos). After this battle the U.S. had been taking different islands and been setting up command bases on them, which was called, island hopping. In the Pacific The United States had just taken the perfect island that would allow us to have good positioning to lead an attack on Japan. The United States had the Japanese pinned down. Franklin Delano Roosevelt health got so bad during his presidency on April 12th, 1945 he died. Immediately his vice president
Imagine, being the one to make the call that's going to end thousands of lives. On August 6, 1945 president Harry Truman made the call that would change the history books forever, and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan killing 100,000 people, and injuring 40,000 more. "To Father Kleinsorge, an Occidental, the silence in the grove by the river, where hundreds of gruesomely wounded suffered together, was one of the most dreadful and awesome phenomena of his whole experience." Hersey, page 47. Many of the wounded people died due to injuries that had there been enough doctors and nurses they may have survived, but many of them died during the blast. "Of a hundred and fifty doctors in the city, sixty-five were already dead and most of the rest were wounded. Of 1,789 nurses, 1,654 were dead or too badly hurt to work. In the biggest hospital, that of the Red Cross, only six doctors out of thirty were able to function, and only ten nurses out of more than two hundred." Hersey, page 19, The United States dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9th, 1945 just 3 days after Hiroshima killing an additional 80,000 people. If I was in Harry Truman's shoes during that time period I would have made the choice to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima. This was during a time where counties were fighting to show how
The decision to drop the atomic bomb, made by President Truman, was largely influenced by political factors rather than military factors. Traditionalist historians argue from the military perspective that the bomb was used to end the war as quickly as possible and with as minimal causalities as possible. Revisionist historians, on the other hand, argue the political perspective where they believe that the bomb was dropped as a diplomatic tool to intimidate the rising superpower that was the Soviet Union. In 1945, there was little reason to doubt the traditionalist perspective; however, in retrospect, with the evidence now gathered and available, it was very likely there were other strategic reasons that played a larger role in the decision Truman had made. By observing the historical timeline, the Cold War began shortly after World War II. Truman was aware of the rising power of the USSR and the threat of the spread of communism into Europe and Asia. The fear of this threat was what likely influenced him and Congress to use the bomb more so than the desire to end the war more efficiently.
A huge proponent to the use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and August 9 of 1945 was President Harry Truman. Although they value the ideas and contributions out in by
Imagine yourself making the toughest decision in your life, whether sacrificing a million of our men and thousands of war ships and plans, verses several thousand of Japanese civilian populists. This decision was on the shoulder of Harry S. Truman, the United States President, who had to make this decision by deciding whether or not to drop a newly designed weapon. The atomic bomb was tested in the sands of New Mexico, where it proved to be very successful. Harry S. Truman made a very successful decision, because he wanted to end the war quickly, show others that the United States had power, and the retribution of Pearl Harbor.
To what extent was Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified?