Truman Decision President Harry S. Truman decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan is perhaps the most controversial act of policy in United States history. One of the many different reasons given for the use of this weapon was the shock effect it would produce in the Japanese foreign policy circle. While the shock of the Japanese will be discussed later‚ it is important to note that it had a similar effect on the west. This shock effect has caused countless authors to speculate as to the motivation
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which historians attribute to this end are the use of atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although the bombing of these cities did force the Japanese to surrender‚ many people today ask "Was the use of the atomic bomb necessary to end the war?" and more importantly "Why was the decision to use the bomb made?" Ronald Takaki examines these questions in his book Hiroshima. The official reason given for dropping the bomb was to bring a quick end to tht war and save American lives
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The first atom bomb used in warfare was dropped on Japan‚ Hiroshima‚ a city in the south of the main Island of Honshu‚ was the target in this first use. Most of the buildings were destroyed and 80‚000 people were killed instantly The first atomic bomb to be used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6‚ 1945. Few knew what the effects would be. There had been only one other bomb of this kind previously detonated. The destruction unleashed on the city was total. About 70 percent of all buildings
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the atomic bomb. They had a heavy-water plant‚ high-grade uranium compounds‚ capable scientists and engineers‚ and the greatest chemical engineering industry in the world. Even before its entry into the war‚ the United States had become very concerned with the nuclear threat of the Axis powers. On October 11‚ 1939‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from Albert Einstein‚ which Einstein had actually written on August 2‚ 1939. The letter told of a new field of physics that was showing
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To what extent was the Soviet Union responsible for the division of Germany from 1945 to 1949? Post-war Germany found itself in the middle of international tensions after its division – between the Allied powers of Britain‚ France and the USA and the Soviet Union under Stalin. However‚ the German nation that hoped for a new beginning could not do so due to the distribution of her land between the victors of the Second World War‚ and historians have since debated over who was to blame for this occurring
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Changes in Europe since the fall of the Soviet Union Since the fall of the Soviet Union 1991 many changes have been brought to Europe. After the fall of the Soviet Union newly formed countries of Eastern Europe found themselves brought into a new era‚ many of the people had relied on the Soviet Union’s system of socialism to help them with every detail of their lives and to dictate their lives but with this newfound freedom citizens had many changes forced upon them. All they once knew had been
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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
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realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants‚ certainly will not succeed.” The Collapse of the Soviet Union is a large example of this quote being true. Emerging from the Russian Empire‚ the Soviet Union was a union of several Soviet states including Armenia‚ Georgia‚ Ukraine‚ Estonia‚ Lativa‚ Belarus‚ and many more. The USSR‚ at one point‚ was a global superpower in the 1900’s that was ruled by communism. Within seventy-four years the USSR went through an entire rise and fall. The country
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Statement</b><br>The hydrogen bomb is a nuclear weapon in which light atomic nuclei of hydrogen are joined together in an uncontrolled nuclear fusion reaction to release tremendous amounts of energy. The hydrogen bomb is about a thousand times as powerful as the atomic bomb‚ which produces a nuclear fission explosion about a million times more powerful than comparably sized bombs using conventional high explosives such as TNT.<br><br><b>The Hydrogen Bomb</b><br>The Atomic Bomb Was A Essential First Step
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In 1945 Hiroshima‚ Japan there was a kid called Hiroki meaning abundant‚ joy and joyful. Hiroki‚ Hiroki was 9 years old. He had a little sister named Aiko which was 3 years old. And her name meant love child and of course they were with their parents. They lived in a big house. Hiroki’s dream was to live in a happy life‚ a good job‚ a wife‚ children who are doing well in school and a house. In 6 August Hiroki’s family was the only family that were warned that America were going to drop the atom
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