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rest of the century. At approximately 9:15am, a large, mushroom-shaped cloud rose over Hiroshima, Japan. The first atomic bomb had been used in combat. The surrender of Japan a week later marked the end of a long struggle for freedom, democracy, and peace. At the same time, it marked a change in the nature of war. American President Harry Truman’s controversial decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan ended the Second World War and began the nuclear age. Since the end of the war, Truman’s decision

bombs on Japan. These bombs along with help from the Soviet Union caused Japan to surrender in the war. Ever since that day, people have been questioning whether or not the use of these weapons on civilian cities have been ethical. Despite the debate, evidence proves that the use of these weapons were a necessity to winning the war as Japan would have fought until the country was destroyed gradually. The use of the atomic bomb was necessary in ending the war in order to protect Japan from udder

a difficult decision to drop the first bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan; called little bomb, the administration asked them to surrender, or expect a “rain of ruin from the air”. Japanese government did not respond to the request of the United States, Mr. Harry Truman decided again to drop a second bomb on the city of Nagasaki to end the war; and to gain a position dominant around the world. After the second bomb Japan did surrender unconditionally on August 15, 1945. The war was finally over

During the sixteenth century, both the Ottoman and Tokugawa Japanese empires had political and economic similarities and differences. Politically, these empires were alike because both had centralized bureaucracy but different because they had very distinct ways of keeping order within their empires. Economically, they were similar because both depended on trade yet different because of their willingness to trade. After close analysis the Tokugawa Japanese empire was more successful economically

societies. These class systems were heredity so you were born into what you would be. With the constant warfare, is made the warrior class the most important, these warriors worked for local lords. In Japan, these warriors are known as samurais and were lowest class of aristocratic nobility. In Japan, women were allowed to become a samurai and fight alongside the men. In Western Europe, however, their warriors were called knights and were the third in their class system. Contrasting the Japanese samurais

8 things you should do at Tokyo Imperial Palace Tokyo Imperial Palace is the residence of Imperial family of Japan and it is situated near to Edo castle. In the ancient Edo period, the Imperial family used to rule over the state from this royal Palace. Edo Castle used to be the seat of the Tokugawa shogun who ruled Japan from 1603 until 1867. In 1868, the nation's capital and Imperial Residence GOT SHIFTED from Kyoto to Tokyo. In 1888 development of another Imperial Palace was finished. The royal

Jonah Noel December 3, 2016 The “opening” of Japan and China; A love story Throughout history, dozens of countries have adopted isolationist policies on countless different occasions. For example, in the United States in the 1930’s, many Americans felt that amidst the Great Depression, the government should focus its efforts on solving problems at home before intervening in international affairs. Furthermore, today, totalitarian dictators often isolate their countries in order to consolidate their

formed to drop an atomic bomb in both Germany and Japan. Newman’s main argument is that anything less than a fatal strike by the bomb would not result in surrender. He says that “even with Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and with an impressive American invasion fleet shaping up, surrender barely came off mid-August.” He cites the military leader of Japan possessing the resolve to continue the fighting no matter what. Newman then states that “retaining the emperor was no alternative at all. It would not have

forces were sure to win the war. The only unsure thing was how many lives would be lost in defeating Japan. The United States decided to drop the atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. On that day the Enola Gay dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima. Three days later the United States dropped "Fat Boy" on Nagasaki. 240,000 civilians, mostly women and children, lost their lives on these two days. On August 14, 1945 Japan surrendered unconditionally. Was it necessary? I believe that the dropping of the atomic bombs were

cannot be further from the truth, as history has shown with the massacre of Koreans after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 and the forced labor of Koreans during WW2. Nevertheless, this book had a significant impact on the way I understood pre-war Japan, and challenged my view that the Japanese empire and its people perceived itself as ethnically homogenous and that this perception was at the heart of their discrimination against Koreans and