Boom! Just like that, the war was over. The atomic bombs dropped on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war that started in 1941. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. This act of terrorism led to the U.S. declaring war on Japan and joining World War II. In 1945 the United States dropped the first ever atomic bomb and ended the war (Walker 1). The United states then began the Manhattan project developing an Atomic bomb to end the war. Two bombs were developed and used on Japan in 1945. Therefore, the United States was justified in dropping the atomic bombs because the bomb saved lives, ended the war quickly, and countered Japanese aggression.
The United States was justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Japan many lives were saved. When the United States dropped the Atomic bomb they prevented a land invasion (Hiroshima Revisited). If an invasion had occurred there would be an estimated 1.5 million American casualties and 4 million Japanese casualties (Hiroshima Revisited). However, the bomb resulted in …show more content…
Japan was relentless In 1937 they were killing thousands on end with no sense of regret or hesitation to do so (McNulty 4) “ The two atomic bombs are pale shadows to the deaths resulting from the Japanese military systematic abuse and killings”(McNulty 4). The Japanese used unjustified tactics to murder and kill innocent people in cold blood (McNulty 4). Similarly to Japan's mass murdering, Japanese aggression led to the rape of Nanjing (McNulty 4). Japanese troops took the nationalist army headquarters and killed 300,000 men, women, and children in 1937 (McNulty 4). The rape of Nanjing lasted weeks as the Japanese vigorously slaughtered innocent people (McNulty 4). The Japanese aggression was getting out of control and the United States put Japan back in its place with the use of the atomic