Victory in Japan, the battle of the Pacific is over, Japan surrenders. ... The Allied forces made the decision to drop an atomic bomb on the island of Japan with hopes of pushing the Japanese to surrender. ... The war had been going on for almost six years; the American Marines fighting in the Pacific had island hopped their way closer and closer to Japan. The Americans had a foothold close enough they were able to send bombers to obliterate Japan. ... So, where more Americans supposed to risk their lives to drag out a war they did not start? ...

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If Japan wasn't stopped, America would have been in serious danger. ... Roosevelt authorized Japanese-American internment. ... About 100,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States were moved to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. ... Although I believe internment of the Japanese was legally wrong and unfair, I think it was necessary for the protection of America. ... " WW2 had changed the image of the Japanese to Americans greatly. ...

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Can you imagine if the Americans invaded mainland Japan where they had not only soldiers to fight against but also the citizens of Japan loyal to their emperor? ... The Japanese did these things anyway, they would decapitate American prisoners, or they would shove bamboo shoots under their fingernails. ... The Japanese gave no warning to the Americans and no war was declared until after the incident. ... The Americans did not want the Russians to get involved in the war against Japan. ... Fortunately the Americans won the "race of discovery". ...

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The first factor that led me to believe that it was a good decision was that Americans believed that the Japanese would never have surrendered. If the bomb had not been dropped many American lives would have been lost in an invasion into Japan. ... Also the Japanese were cruel towards the American soldiers of war and it was time to teach them a lesson. ... All that time and money Japan would spend rebuilding Hiroshima and Nagasaki is overwhelming. ... Also Russia was going to begin an invasion against the Japanese and had they failed we could have used the atomic bomb as a last resort. ...

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The Americans found their good from this by almost the same way as the Japanese. ... Another contrast between the article and book was about the warnings the Americans sent to Japan before they actually bombed Hiroshima. ... From this perspective it was almost as if the Americans were just heckling the Japanese. ... From the Japanese and Americans both having good from this horrific event. ... And another difference of how the Americans saying they were clearly giving the Japanese a nice solemn warning but the Japanese had no idea when they were getting attacked....

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The question is whether to drop or not to drop atomic bombs on Japan. ... Soon after Japan surrendered, ending the war. ... Was it too harsh and cruel to the Japanese? ... By deciding to drop the bombs United States of America contributed to the killing of 230,000 people. ... Dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima was the right choice of the American military. ...

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It was said that America was perfecting a bomb with enough explosive to destroy the world. ... The American navy and the American army had a big difference in opinions concerning this issue. ... At the back of his mind he had formulated a plan that would not sacrifice the lives of thousands of Americans and would most definitely defeat Japan. ... He was suggesting that an invasion of mainland Japan would cost the lives of some 500,000 to 1,000,000 American troops. ... It was decided over the next couple of days that the best decision up to this time, was to invade the Japanese mainland, howeve...

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It was necessary that we have Japan's unconditional surrender, keep Russia out of East Asia and cut down on the cost of lives, Japanese and American. ... It was absolutely essential that the loss of American lives be decreased. ... It was estimated that it would cost 250,000 American lives and millions of Japanese lives to take Japan by invasion. ... The atomic bomb created a horrific death toll, in the end it saved lives, American and Japanese. ... These possibilities also made keeping Russia out of Japan yet another proponent to dropping the bombs on Japan. ...

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The US forces would have to invade the island of Japan. ... There was no way to predict when the Japanese would surrender to the US. ... If the US didn't drop the bomb the Japanese would have kept fighting. ... The Kamikaze was a group of Japanese pilots that were called "suicide pilots." ... Some people say after the Sherman's March to the Sea of the American Civil War, which was the turning point in today's warfare, civilian population centers are also considered fair game to the military. ...

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Pearl Harbor was one of the most vicious attacks on American soil. ... The United States responded by creating Japanese-American Internment Camps, which uprooted tens of thousands of Japanese-American families. And later America decided to use atomic weapons to end the war with Japan. ... This called for the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans for up to four years, most of which were legal U.S. citizens. ... The conditions were so harsh that some Japanese Americans died. ...

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If the primary key of concern was American causalities, then why was it realistic to drop a bomb that would still strike down Americans? ... " This is what the United States of America planned to do to the Japanese. ... With the help of the two bombs, Japan eventually decided to surrender. Many Americans supported the idea of the atomic bomb. ... Without realization of long term devastation, America did what was right. ...

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This only served to increase American's hatred toward the Japanese. ... Finally, the U.S. could focus its energies and power to quickly defeat the Japanese with minimal loss of American lives. ... The Americans continued massive conventional bombings. American forces prepared 6 million leaflets to drop on Japanese cities. ... While doing my research I found that there are no clear answers to the question of why America decided to use the atomic bombs against Japan. ...

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The Japanese dropping bombs on American soil was like a kid kicking a hornet's nest. One negative consequence was the creation of Japanese internment camps. Since the Japanese were the one's responsible for the bombing of Pearl Harbor and were one of the allie's enemies, Japanese living in America were prejudged. The government accused many American-Asians of spying and conspiring with Japan. ... Although there was n direct violence, it was still traumatizing to be "kidnapped" by the government, as most Japanese-Americans were. ...

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Japan had never lost a war and had never been invaded. ... The Japanese played this game to the death in hopes the U.S. would tire of war, and not force upon Japan an unconditional surrender. The only other option available to end the brutal Japanese expansion and murder was a full scale invasion of Japan. ... Over 572,000 casualties were expected for the American side alone. ... Over 1,800,000 American troops would invade near Tokyo, with expected casualties nearing 1,000,000. ...

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Why did America drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima? ... Thus, the United States had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in order to end the war "almost instantly" and avoid a bloody invasion, there by saving both Japanese and American lives (Takaki 4). Lance Morrow writes that the bomb saved both Japanese and American lives, where in reality only American lives were saved. ... 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. ... Truman explained the r...

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The American government led by President Harry S. ... Despite the American view that revenge should be taken against Japan because of Pearl Harbor, it did not have to be achieved in such a horrific way. ... Another reason Truman and the American government felt that Japan should be destroyed with an atomic bomb, was to seek revenge for the attack against Pearl Harbor that had occurred earlier in the war on December 7th, 1941. Since Pearl Harbor was struck by a secret military attack the Americans felt that Japan should be repaid with a similar act of violence. ... Many Americans found the rev...

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It was the use of the atomic bomb on two Japanese cities. ... The Japanese planned a secret attack on the United States. ... It was a smart move for the United States to bomb Japan. ... We were able to save many American lives by ending the war quickly. ... The U.S. was able to save many American lives, and also many Russian, British, and other Allied lives. ...

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I believe that the Americans were justified in using the atomic bomb during the Second World War. ... The addition of the Americans to the allied side turned the tide and helped end the expansion of Germany and Japan. ... I believe that the Japanese are in the wrong here because United States has the civil right not to trade with the Japanese. ... During December 7, 1941, 2403 Americans lost their lives. ... The addition of the Americans to the war helped turn the tide of power from the axis countries to that of the allied members, so the bombing of Japan was, indeed, necessary and...

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They drew pictures, closely related to hell, so Berger writes about how sickening it was what we Americans did to the innocent Japanese people who really didn't have much to do with the war. ... Berger writes about how, us Americans we're not given the truth of what was really being planned during the war against Japan. ... Many Americans were outraged when they found out what happened that day, they said it should never happen again. They pitied the Japanese for all the damage we did. ... Why weren't we as American, educated on what we were creating? ...

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The Americans could not believe that the Japanese had the nerve to bomb their military base, and over the next four years, the Americans secretly sought a way of revenge. ... If the Americans ever followed the Japanese back to Japan, only under the condition of one last battle were the Japanese generals going to consider negotiating an honorable surrender. ... These invasions included 2.5 million American troops and the terms if these invasions were reluctantly agreed to and signed by the president. Even though Truman had signed these documents, inside he felt that too many American men ...

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Some believe that when the Japanese decided to attack America; they knew that almost all of the immediate forces were naval. ... However, Truman's primary concern was not on how his decision to drop the bomb was going to effect foreign relations before the Japanese surrender, but how to prevent more American casualties. And that was his main goal to save American soldiers lives. ... The war ended just weeks before the United States' scheduled invasion of the Japanese Homeland, which saved an estimated one quarter of a million American soldiers. ... Japan lost an estimated 225,000 cit...

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In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. ... Japan had no choice but to surrender at this point. I believe that the atomic bombs dropped on Japan were not justified. ... " Truman felt that if he hadn't made such a bold move on Japan, even more troops and civilians would have died, but the war on Japan had already been nearly over. ... At this time, the battle with Japan had been coming to a close; Japan was nearly defeated. ...

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One greatly argued reason that we should not have dropped the bomb is that prior to it's fall, a minimum if six American war leaders were having second thoughts about it's use (3). ... Thirdly, the Chief of Staff to President Truman himself felt that the bomb would be "of no material help", that Japan was "already defeated and ready to surrender" (7). ... In addition, the Secretary to the Japanese War Minister shared in an interview in 1963 that if the Americans had just made a second and possibly third attack on Japan, the small country would quickly run out of food, supplies, and w...

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Hiroshima is a town in Japan. ... What was the problem the Americans were trying to solve? By detonating the atomic bomb over Hiroshima the Americans achieved the following: • Stopping the war, which America declared on Japan, but Japan began. ... I believe that negotiating with Japan would have been useless. ... I believe the best way to deal with situation would have been negotiating with Americans allies to form a plan of attack to restrict Japan from not attacking and minimising deaths. ...

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Japan posed little or no threat to American forces at this point. ... Japanese pilots would strap themselves into planes loaded with explosives and fly them into American ships. ... These were unlikely choices because the number of American and Japanese casualties would run into the hundreds of thousands or maybe even the millions. ... American Civil War General Robert E. ... During one night of American B-29 raids over Tokyo one hundred thousand Japanese lives were lost. ...

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