It happened on an 8 square mile island that took the mane, Iwo Jima (Battle of Iwo Jima, par 1). American troops were told that their goal was to take the airfield of Iwo Jima for the future bombing of Tokyo. The Japanese were assigned to kill ten American soldiers before they had the right to die. The battle lasted from February 19, 1945 to March 26, 1945, which was a little over a month,. In thirty-six days there were nearly twenty-six thousand US casualties, almost seven thousand American troops were KIA (Hama, Erksine and Williams 98).
The decision prevented millions of American casualties, millions of Japanese casualties, and served as a deterrent to the USSR expansion. The war in the Pacific had been raging for almost four years. The two battles immediately preceding the bomb decision were Iwo Jima and Okinawa; two battles where the Japanese fought to the death and the cost in American casualties was horrific. After those battles it was predicted that the invasion of the Japanese mainland would be even worse (51g. The Decision).
One interesting fact to remember is that we put Saddam Hussein into power back in the 1070's when he opposed the soviets. So we gave him millions of dollars, weapons, and tactics to defeat the soviets. Hussein however used this power, weapons, and money to make himself a dictator figure over his people in Iraq and a long period of oppression ensued. All of the problems we have spent $4 trillions dollars on were caused by none other than ourselves back in the cold war. The Bush administration underestimated how long the Iraq War would take, and the administration expected only a two year operation and a price tag of a little over $100
The reading, “The Biggest Decision: Why We Had to Drop the Bomb,” by Robert James Maddox, explains the process taken in for the Americas to decide to drop the two newly discovered atomic bombs over the Japanese homeland cities of Hiroshima and three days later Nagasaki. Americans should be well informed on this information. This is a perfect article for this class because it marks a very important milestone in our nation’s history. The Japanese were a strong powerful enemy of the US during the end of WWII. “The Japanese had more than 2,000,000 troops in the home lands, and were training millions of irregulars” pg.
The conflict in the Pacific had come at the cost of thousands of American lives, evident during the takeover of Iwo Jima, which saw the US suffer 83 000 casualties and 6000 deaths within a month’s worth of fighting. As a result of these losses, the US was no longer willing to continue the war for another year. The A-bomb was seen to guarantee Japan’s surrender, thereby ending the futile war. The importance of bringing a timely end to the war was further perpetuated by the possibility Soviet involvement in the post-war administration of Japan. Through the Yalta Conference, in February 1945, the US successfully gained Soviet support for the Pacific War and invasion of the Japanese empire.
This is a big victory for America and the Allies. The worst battle America is involved in is the Battle of the Bulge which took a great number of American soldier’s lives. Finally the war is ending because the United States dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The events of World War II changed the way the United States is today. Battles of World War
Seeing as there are rules pertaining to humanity during war, was dropping the atomic bomb humanitarian? No, after dropping the bomb, 70,000 Japanese citizens were instantly vaporized and in the months and years that followed, an additional 100,000 perished from burns and radiation sickness. 4. How does Article XXII of Rules of Aerial Warfare relate to the case? The article states that aerial bombardment for the purpose of terrorizing the civilian population, of destroying or damaging private
Argument #1 1. Just about 140,000 people died of the bomb as I said before. But throughout WWII, millions died in the concentration camps put up by both Germany, and Japan. a. To be more specific, about how many people died of the Japanese camps?
The decision to drop the bombs was one of the most difficult things President Truman had to do during his Presidency. Japan would remember the tragic dates and the aftermath it brought. People can only imagine what the inventors of the atomic bomb felt; they created such
Why did President Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb in August 1945? On August 6 and 9, 1945, the U.S. President Harry Truman decided to drop 2 atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Japan which then ending World War II. It caused a lot of casualties and disasters, killing 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki. It has remained the only time atomic bombs have ever been used in warfare. The decision by the United States to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II remains one of the most controversial topics in Japanese history.