What Other Alternatives Were There For The United States?
World War II began in 1939, two decades after World War I, better known as the Great War began in 1914. It was even more devastating than World I and it destroyed more land all over the globe and took more lives than any other war. Leading up to World War II, in 1934 Adolf Hitler had gained power in Germany. Hitler was an unstable man who was obsessed with purifying the German Race. He wanted his race to be superior and believed that the only way to gain superiority and power was by war. To do this Adolf and his Nazi Party decided to sign treaties with Italy and Japan against the Soviet Union to continue on with his mission to dominate the world. As his next move, he decided to invade Poland in September of 1939 from the east and France and
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He made the decision to use the atom bomb to end the war in order to prevent a much greater loss of life. Had the United States invaded the Japanese mainland a lot more lives would have been loss. In my opinion it was a double ended sword. It was either the Japanese or the Americans, and so he made that decision, which I think was right because we hadn’t started it. We were simply defending our country and sending a message. Japan was not backing down. Germany had surrendered but the Japanese were raging on in the Pacific. Japan also was trying to find a possible way to successfully invade America and bring a negotiated peace. What other Alternatives were there for the United States? America at first had planned to invade Japan which was to begin on November 1st but it predicted 31,000 to 50,000 American deaths in the first month which didn’t sit well with the President. The United States was not willing to take the chance and so we tested the bomb and learned that it was a success. All America hoped for was an end to a war as quickly as possible and to avoid an invasion with the loss of many lives especially after witnessing the Pearl Harbor bombing. I think the United States tried to carry out the bombing in the most strategic was as
He made the decision to use the atom bomb to end the war in order to prevent a much greater loss of life. Had the United States invaded the Japanese mainland a lot more lives would have been loss. In my opinion it was a double ended sword. It was either the Japanese or the Americans, and so he made that decision, which I think was right because we hadn’t started it. We were simply defending our country and sending a message. Japan was not backing down. Germany had surrendered but the Japanese were raging on in the Pacific. Japan also was trying to find a possible way to successfully invade America and bring a negotiated peace. What other Alternatives were there for the United States? America at first had planned to invade Japan which was to begin on November 1st but it predicted 31,000 to 50,000 American deaths in the first month which didn’t sit well with the President. The United States was not willing to take the chance and so we tested the bomb and learned that it was a success. All America hoped for was an end to a war as quickly as possible and to avoid an invasion with the loss of many lives especially after witnessing the Pearl Harbor bombing. I think the United States tried to carry out the bombing in the most strategic was as