Even if Truman had decided to use the bomb, there was no reason to bomb Hiroshima. Hiroshima had limited military value and was mostly civilians, outnumbering the soldiers six to one. Over 200,000 men, women and children died because of the bomb, most of the casualties being women, children and old men. Although President Truman said the use of the atomic bomb was also used to reduce casualties on the Japanese side, if he cared so much about Japanese casualties, he could have just changed the unconditional surrender to make it easier for the Japanese to
A. Plan of Investigation Question: “The atomic bombs were necessary to end the Second World War.” To what extent do you agree with this statement?” Thesis: To a very small degree I do believe that the Atomic bomb did help put an end to WWII but to an even greater extent I do believe that the Atomic bomb was not necessary to end of the WWII. Arguments: Japanese Culture American Government Decision Making About Dropping the Atomic Bomb American and Russian Government Battle Japanese Impact of the Atomic Bomb B. Summary of Evidence 1. Japanese Culture • The Japanese people were also developing their own atomic bomb during the time of the United States and Russia.
Go For Broke Soon after the Japanese army bombing of pearl harbor in 1941, American joined into the world war 2. Japanese American were called to 4-C which was also named “Enemy Aliens”, and were not allowed to join U.S. Military anymore, even though they did not have any bad record such as spying. The American government soon forced them including many who were American citizens and mainly lived on the west coast transferred to internment camps which located various western wasteland areas of the country, even though the Japanese Americans who lived in Hawaii was a significant portion of the local work force and relocated them would make a negative effect on the local economy. However, in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt and the war department of American government decided to allow American Japanese to voluntary join an army which only composed by American Japanese which called the 100th Infantry Battalion. Finally, this battalion composed in Hawaii, the most of units were from Hawaii and mainland and wanted to show their loyal, conscientious to prove their devotion to their country.
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The Germans, immediately after sinking the ship, accused Britain of the Lusitania carrying munitions, not just passengers. The government tried to justify the sinking of the Lusitania by saying that the Lusitania contained weapons (“Sinking of RMS Lusitania” para. 2). The Germans must have known that the Lusitania held weapons, years before future historians and scientists would prove their existence true. If not, Germany would have looked at all the positives and negatives of sinking the Lusitania, and would have realized the cons outweighed the pros in this situation.
There is no way to fathom such a number. However, there is a way to fathom time, and saving time in war does result in saving lives. An invasion on Japan was being planned for the following year, leaving a plethora of time for which American and Japanese lives may have been taken in war. However, the invasion was not necessary for on September 2, 1945 – less than a month after the first atomic bomb was dropped, Japan officially signed to unconditional surrender. The dropping of the atom bomb served its purpose – to end the war as quickly as possible with the least amount of American deaths as possible.
This could have created more opportunities for those in the United States suffering from the depression. However, the United States could not have gotten involved for the same reason of creating more jobs. With the war creating more employment in the country, more people would be able to have jobs and support their families. The United States was a primary supplier of goods to Europe, therefore ending the war would end this ‘alliance’ trade with Europe, which would have hurt the United States economy even more. The third reason as to why we should’ve been involved in Europe during the Holocaust is because the United States involvement in Europe could have prevented Hitler and the Nazis from taking over Europe.
After World War Two (WW2) had ended and the dust began to settle over the Nazi regime, historians began to try and analyse the monstrosities that had occurred in Nazi Germany. The two first interpretations of the Holocaust that came about were intentionalism. This was the belief that without Hitler as Führer the Holocaust would never have happened. Therefore it’s no coincidence that Michael Marrus was an intentionalist historian. The other interpretation was structuralism.
Pope Pius XII was one of the first Catholics to secretly help Jews escape the fear in Germany. While many Catholics hid Jews, Pope Pius was able to assist Jews in moving to Italy. He managed to do this through false documentation that said Jews were
Circumstances helped form Adolf Hitler into the man he was. Without Hitler it is possible that the Holocaust may not have happened. The circumstances leading to his power and that developed his mind set on the Jewish people. Had circumstances been different and Hitler had been accepted to art school or the school of Architecture he had wanted to attend then perhaps the events that shape our world today would be much different. Hitler states the following on his time spent in Vienna: I owe it to that period that I grew hard and am still capable of being hard.