of the Axis alliance that included Germany as well as Italy. The United States at this time was a neutral country and was not involved in the war. A surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese changed that and led to the U.S. to retaliate with Atomic bombs. Pearl Harbor In the early 1940’s the United States stopped supporting Japan by no longer exporting fuel‚ oil and metals. This tactic was used to hinder the Japanese military from expanding. The Japanese knew the United States were bound
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The human mind cannot comprehend the split-second deaths of 100 000 people when the atomic bomb hit the people of Japan in August‚ 1945. However this event‚ which has changed the world forever‚ can be relived through the lives of six survivors in John Hersey’s Hiroshima. Expository texts such as the aforementioned often present powerful social issues which challenge not only the reader from the contemporary Western culture but also the reader from the 1946 American society. Hersey employs various
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the United States commanded Japan to surrender over to America and if failed to do so‚ the United States threatened to attack Hiroshima’s city with lethal atomic bombs. August 9‚ the United States dropped another lethal bomb over the Nagasaki city and killing thousands of innocent people and creating many damages in the city from the bombings. A few days later Japan publicized their surrendering to the world‚ and helping to create a peaceful end to World War II. Throughout 1945 the War has had
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Was America Justified in using the Atomic Bombs against Japan in August 1945? In this essay I will discuss the reasons for and against whether America was right to drop the two atomic bombs. These two bombs were unloaded on Hiroshima‚ 6th August 1945‚ and attempted to hit Nagasaki‚ 9th August 1945. America gave the two bombs code names‚ the one that was dropped on Hiroshima was called ‘Little Boy’. This bomb was made of uranium. The final death toll added up to 135‚000. The nuclear bomb that fell
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“Little boy” and “Fat man”. These were the names of the two devastating atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One‚ a gun-assembly fission bomb where “a mass of Uranium-235 is fired down a gun barrel toward another mass of Uranium-235”. The other‚ an Implosion fission bomb where “a sphere of Plutonium-239 is surrounded by high explosives that compress the plutonium”. Both bombs had a TNT equivalent of over 15‚000 tons‚ and the sheer force of both explosions was equal to the load of nearly
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difficult decisions of his life. The American soldiers and civilians were exhausted from four years of war‚ but still the Japanese military refused to give up there fight. American forces where occupying Okinawa and Iwo Jima and were intensely fire bombing Japanese cities. Japan had an army of 2 million‚ and they were staying strong. They stationed them selves in the home islands guarding against any invasion. The Allies demanded for immediate surrender‚ although the demand said that refusal would result
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months and years an additional 100‚000 people died from their burns and radiation sickness. Two days after the first use of the nuclear weapons the United States dropped another atomic bomb but this time it was on Nagasaki‚ which 80‚000 Japanese people died. Only eight days after the United States had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima the Japanese had surrendered. Many military analysts believe that the Japanese were on their knees and that the use of nuclear weapons was completely unnecessary
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dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?” The Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki dropped or not‚ were ones of the man-made disasters that occurred on August 6 1945‚ and August 9 1945 respectively. The launching of the atomic bomb has numerous opinions and aspects on whether United States of America should be justified for launching atomic bombs on those cities or not. The essay question for our class is‚ “To what extent was the United States justified in dropping atomic bombs on
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“Conflict is a destructive force in our lives” What is the real explanation of conflict? A struggle or destructive force.” This description of conflict only scrapes the surface of what it really means. People encounter these conflicts almost on a daily basis‚ whether it being self inflicting conflict‚ conflict with scheduling religions‚ age‚ sex‚ family‚ friends or even the experience of a war. Conflict is an unavoidable force; we will all face conflict in one form or another throughout our lives
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easily be found at the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ Japan ("Nuclear Weapons Timeline"). During World War II‚ the United States of America dropped two atomic bombs: the Little Boy and the Fat Man; these bombs are the only nuclear bombs that have been used in war‚ however‚ nuclear weapons have been tested multiple times. From these bombings we can see one of the most immediate effects: death. “...The bomb [Little Boy] was dropped
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