WWII
On Monday, August 6,1945, the American B-29 Enola Gayleft its runway carrying a massive weapon that would soon beresponsible for killing 80,000 men, women and children inJapan. The destructive force, which wiped out many lives andthe entire city of Hiroshima, was the first actual use of aweapon at the time unheard of by the world, the atomic bomb.Many questions must be considered to determine whether theuse of atomic power was necessary to distinguish the war,and if so, was the result of bombing Hiroshima enough? Wasit really necessary to bomb Nagasaki, or was the UnitedStates trying to prove a disturbing and powerful point?To answer that first we must look at was going on in theworld at the time of the conflict. The U.S. had beenfighting a wars with areas throughout Europe and Asia.Morale was most likely low, and resources were at the samelevel as morale. Obviously the best thing that could havepossibly happened would have been to bring the war to aquick end with a minimum of allied casualties. The PottsdamConference was around the time of the end of the first war.Several of the Pacific islands were lost such as China,Berma, Thailand and Manchua. Harry Truman's decision to drop
7 It isplausible to think that Japan would have surrendered if theU. Thisconfidence gave them the idea that they could actuallydefeat the U. The president'sdecision for nuclear weapons, when it came, based on two ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**Annotated BibliographyButow, Robert. Truman was thrown into presidency ata very tumultuous period. With a close and Carter 2detailed examination of the events leading to the bombingand the actual detonation itself, a realization that the use of the atomic bomb was not just to end the war, butalso to prove the world that the United States was the mostpowerful nation in the world. The Japanese mainland could notproduce enough food to sustain its massive population forvery long. This gave American bombers free reign over theskies of Japan. 1 Truman hadseveral options to consider. A strategy that would force Japan to surrender would be submarine use and naval blockades. 5 "Their patriotic 'whatever it takes to win'attitude is best exemplified by their use of Kamikazewarfare, which incorporated the use of suicidal pilots inusing entire planes, boats, and submarines as bombingdevices. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,1959. Do to the stiff resistanceencountered in securing Okinawa, the war in Japan did notshow signs of ending. Air offered American forces amethod of remaining relatively unharmed against theexceptional Japanese military while laying waste to entirecities. When Roosevelt was president,Truman never knew anything about the war.
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