How History Influence in International Politics Nowadays

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Here are a few reasons why we should study history: History helps us understand People and Societies- We can use history from the past to explain why we act the way we do. History helps us understand change and how the society we live in and politics we follow came to be- we can use history to understand why things occur and history shows us a trend we can see what made a trend rise or fall and according to that we can change things to our advantage. As time progresses we forget about a lot of things in the past and studying about the past can we can uncover some useful things. We can also see what decision was made and what the outcome was and if we make a different decision we can get a better solution. We have to learn from the mistakes of others and studying history can help us do that. For example we can see the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the forces of the United States and her allies had been at war with Japan. The combined land, sea and air forces of the Allies fought back against Japan until only the Japanese homeland remained in Japanese control. On August 6, 1945, at 9:15 AM Tokyo time, a B-29 plane, the "Enola Gay" piloted by Paul W. Tibbets, dropped a uranium atomic bomb, code named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan's seventh largest city. In minutes, half of the city vanished. According to U.S. estimates, 60,000 to 70,000 people were killed or missing, 140,000 were injured many more were made homeless as a result of the bomb. Deadly radiation reached over 100,000. In the blast, thousands died instantly. Nagasaki was an industrialized city with a natural harbor in Western Kyushu, Japan. At 11:02 a.m., this bomb, known as the "Fat Man" bomb, exploded over the north factory district at 1,800 feet above the city to achieve maximum blast effect. The bomb took the lives of 42,000 persons and

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