Prompt and Utter Destruction Since the end of World War II, the world has developed in many ways and has moved on from the destruction of the past. The infamous catastrophes of the war kick started many advancements in technology and the way of human life today. ... As the war went on, Groves and his superiors in the War Department were worried that after spending excessive amounts of money and creating the actual bomb, it would fail to work properly. ... " Having previously spoken to Stalin about an exact date that the Soviets would enter the war, Truman had all the information he n...

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America tried to avoid becoming part of World War II, but their involvement was destined to happen. ... Essentially, the war ended the Great Depression. ... They still wanted to continue working after the war. ... World War II largely effected American's of all kinds. ... World War II allowed America to get back on their feet. ...

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This was towards the end of World War II. ... The bombing of Hiroshima occurred as Colonel Tibbets instructed the United States to drop two atomic bombs in Japan as it will forcibly make them surrender, to end World War II. ... The attack against Hiroshima was committed by the United States to make a statement to end World War II. ... The World Trade Center attack was also made to make a statement to start war, not to end it. ... The similarities between Hiroshima and the World Trade Center were done because of war. ...

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World War II If I can change any event in history it will be world war II because in some way it was the most tragically for me. In this essay you will find my opinion of the war and the prevention of it. ... In World War two there were many battles fought. ... We were able to save many American lives by ending the war quickly. ... Between the end of World War II and the late 1950s, when Japan's defenses against disasters were weakened by the war, the country was hit by a series of major typhoons, violent earthquakes, and other calamities, and over 1,000 lives were lost virtually eve...

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The decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki put an immediate end to World War II. ... Newman, who believes that Truman had carefully considered all of the options, the bombs were the fastest way to end the war. and that Truman believed the Soviets were not necessary in terms of ending the war. ... Gary Alperovitz's final argument lies in the lack of the support for the bomb after the war. ... Alperovitz's second argument lies in the regrets of World War II military leaders. ... Henry Stimson had been Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Secretary of War during World War I...

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The bomb quickly yielded the surrender of Japan and the end of the American involvement in World War II. ... The dropping of the atomic bomb ended World War II. ... The dropping of the atomic bomb stopped World War II in 1945. ... The dropping of the atomic bomb ended World War II. ... The dropping of the atomic bomb stopped World War II in 1945. ...

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The Soviet Union, during World War II, was the chief protector of the western front, fending off the entire Axis powers" advance towards Asia. The basis of the Cold War was the broken promise from the Yalta Conference. ... This is the true cause of the Cold War, which was not involved in the bombing of Hiroshima. ... My thesis that the bombing of Hiroshima was merely a plan to end the war in the Pacific of World War II is the statement that I truly believe. ... But, the Cold War had nothing to do with the atomic bomb and it never did. ...

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World War II's impact On the Homefront "Yesterday, December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy-The United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval air forces of the Empire of Japan...I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Empire of Japan... The United States was in no condition to go to war. ... World War II helped the world recognize women as important people Women went out and got jobs to help support there families. ... Wh...

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The United States has decided to launch a land invasion against Japan in hopes of ending World War II. ... Now imagine a chance to change history, and end the war in a quick moment. ... As stated in An Eye on History, "All weapons of war are immoral. ... Dropping the Atomic bomb was necessary because it saved millions of American and Japanese lives, put an end to the war, and showed our power to the Soviet Union in lure of the post World War II era. ... Without the dropping of the two bombs, World War II's pacific battle would have continued on for many more years. ...

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Did America need to use the Atomic Bomb to end World War II? The atomic bomb killed many innocent people, but it was necessary to end World War II. After World War II began in 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announced the neutrality of the United States. ... This was a catalyst that brought the United States into World War II. ... World War Two was the worst war in history. ...

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A great number of changes, both positive and negative, arose as a result of World War II. Based on the facts from documents 1-17, however, it appears that that negative changes far outweigh the positive results within the post World War II time-frame. ... There have been more negative consequences then positive as a result of World War II. The dominant negative effect would be The Cold War. ... The space race also fueled this war. ...

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Near the end of World War II, the United States dropped two bombs on Japan; one on the city of Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki. ... Innocent women and children were killed because of the bomb even though they weren't the ones fighting the war. ... Our leaders were operating under the "War is Hell" doctrine. It states that ending a war as quickly as possible is the right decision. ... The U.S. actions to drop the bomb were unjust and followed the overall trend in World War II which was mass killing innocent civilians....

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The Soviet Union realized that the war against Japan would not end soon, so the Soviets declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945, but only to gain territory. ... Even though two bombs had been dropped on Japan, and the United Stated had the power to end the war, Russia still pressed on. ... Now with World War II ended between the United States and Japan there were hardly any problems that needed to be solved with such mass destruction and death....

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Coming to Terms with My Ignorance The dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is remembered as a point of Western victory in World War II, just as the attack on Pearl Harbor is remembered as "the day that went down in infamy". ... I received yet another life lesson from the reading: I completely understood the sentiments of the Japanese civilians of World War II. ... I never believed that the Japanese weren't people; I had just assumed that the citizenry during World War II had different hopes and ideals than the citizens of the Allies. After all, wasn't that why our c...

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I believe that the Americans were justified in using the atomic bomb during the Second World War. ... Before being attacked, the United States were isolated and didn't want to be a part of the war, but were then given a reason to join. ... The damages received by the Americans were highly unwarranted considering they were a nation wishing to be isolated and have nothing to do with the war. It would, however, been acceptable if a warning or declaration of war had been sent to the United States. ... Then they contributed to the forcing of Rommel's forces out of Africa during the ...

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These bombs were dropped as the Pacific battles of World War II were coming to an end. Soon after Japan surrendered, ending the war. ... The bombs were used, and the war ended soon after. ... With statistics like these it is clearly seen that Pope John Paul II was right when he said, "Any nuclear war would inevitably cause death, disease, and suffering of pandemic proportions and without the possibility of effective medical intervention. The only hope for humanity is prevention of any form of Nuclear War." ...

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The rationale behind this, one of the most important events of World War II, is still a subject of heated debate. ... (Doc A) If the US had gone through with a full-scale invasion, according to Secretary of War Henry Stimpson, "the major fighting would not end until the latter part of 1946." (Doc A) British Prime Minister Winston Churchill embodied the motivation of the US government to use the Atomic bomb by describing it as "the end of the whole war in one or two violent shocks a merciful abridgement of the slaughter in the East." ... The Japanese, on the other hand, had no intention of e...

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Another way that Roosevelt improved foreign relations was by mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese war, which made him the first American president to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1906. ... Truman was 1st informed of the developing of the atomic bomb by secretary of war Henry L. ... He made plans to use the bomb between then and August 10 to end the war. ... World War II was over. ... Another was the Marshall Plan (named for Secretary of State George Marshall), that offered financial aid to any European country that needed to rebuild after World War II. ...

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The United States and Japan were already in a real detente during World War II. ... Truman was looking for a way to end the war as quickly and painless as possible for the United States. The main goal for the United States was to end the war with the fewer amount of American casualties. ... It may have been morally wrong to kill these citizens which by no means wanted this war to break out. ... Surrender was inevitable, it must be done to end the war completely. ...

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The Nuclear Age was born from the destruction of World War II. ... From this same fury and disturbance of war came other creations which were more optimistic. From the remnants of World War II came the United Nations, an organization that would promote international cooperation to achieve peace and security, which twice in the lifetimes of its creators had brought "untold sorrow to mankind." (3)The United Nations was viewed as a place where representatives of nations could gather to resolve the world's problems with civility rather than bombs. On occasion, it has succeeded in dramatic and...

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Hiroshima John Hersey's Hiroshima presents the events leading up to the dropping of the atomic bomb, the actual event, the aftermath, and the affects the introduction of nuclear warfare has had on the world. Hersey uses the individual accounts of six different people, and their individual experi...

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Since the dropping of the atomic bombs in Japan at the end of World War II there has been much debate as to whether or not it was really necessary. ... We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans"" (President Truman, 1945). ... "It is in my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. ... "The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. ... The reason for the atomic bombing lay in the desire for revenge that accompanies w...

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The Strategic bombing survey of 1946, the internal War Department repot concluded the atomic bomb had not been needed to end the war. ... Was the bomb dropped to end the war more quickly? ... The war is over. ... They, too, found themselves the targets of stereotyping discrimination, violence, and exclusion that would lead to the internment camps of World War II (Takaki 7). For the United States during the years between Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and America's atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there were two wars; the European war and the Pacific War. ...

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Nuclear Energy Nuclear energy can be good, it is cost-effective, creates cheap electricity, and there is lots of it, and power plants aren't too hard to build. But the real problem is, where can all that stuff go? It is not renewable, so it has to go somewhere, just like trash does. Trash can...

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Just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. ... Styer called the Manhattan Project "the most important job in the war . . . an all-out effort to build an atomic bomb."... On Monday, July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 A.M., Mountain War Time, the plutonium bomb ignited at the Trinity site, a remote site in the New Mexico desert. ... Brigadier General Farrell wrote a letter for the Secretary of War. ...

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