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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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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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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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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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 United States had been bombing Japan for months, and the Japanese people were already becoming weak from nine months of air attacks. ... Yet, over four years after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and after nearly a year of the U.S. consistently performing air attacks on Japan, the United States decided that two atomic bombs would be dropped on the Japanese people. Not just the Japanese army, but the Japanese people; women, children, men, animals, homes, etc...On March 9th thru the 10th, 300 American bombers feverishly bombed Tokyo, Japan. ... He stated that he never "entertained any ...

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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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This thinking might stand true with today's technology but during the war time of the Bombing of Japan this was not the case. Many military documents surfaced after the bombing showing that we, the United States of America, did not have to go to the extreme in making Japan surrender. ... These tests were conducted on July 16, 1945, not even a month before they were to be used on Japan. ... President Harry Truman, known for electing to use the new and deadly weapon, claimed that dropping the Atomic bomb would save over 100,000 American lives. ... General Groves and Admiral Purnell, two sen...

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Sasaki forms strong ties with Americans years later. ... Tanimoto) writes a letter to an American friend saying that everything that has happened was just a great sacrifice by the Japanese people, towards the goal of World Peace. ... He later becomes a Japanese citizen, changing his name, this creates a positive view on the Japanese people, and the unity there was after the bombing. ... It helped clear things up between the American and Japanese in a certain way; to show the Americans how truly devastating the bomb was, to show the human pain and suffering caused, and tone down the feeling of ...

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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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Leaving an impact of epic proportions, the bombs of The Manhattan Project have left scars on Japan and the world to this very day. ... Groves saw the need for a dedicated platoon of men that would be trained to drop the bomb on targets in Japan. ... Shortly after, on August 14, 1945, Japan finally surrendered, and World War II came to a close. ... He argued that without the use of the atomic bomb, a costly invasion of Japan would be required, and numerous American lives would be lost. ... In fact, McCloy, assistant to Henry Stimson, who was the Secretary of War at the time, attended a meet...

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Newman explains that Stimson argues throughout his article that the atomic bombs were the most efficient way to end the war because the Japanese refused to surrender, the Soviets had no intimidation factor on the Japanese, and that Americans were simply war weary and need a quick resolution. ... Stimson had known that the Japanese were adamant about not unconditionally surrendering and from this information did everything in his power to rid the American people of their wartime blues. He knew that Americans had long since been tired of the war and fervent to bring the troops back home. ... St...

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Did America need to use the Atomic Bomb to end World War II? ... In late 1939, President Roosevelt ordered an American effort to make an atomic bomb before Germany. ... On his way back to the United States, President Truman ordered American fliers to drop an atomic bomb in Japan. ... The Japanese government told the people of Japan that it was a "special-type bomb." ... He said: "It was a question of saving hundreds of thousands of American lives. ...

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For awhile there had been tension between Japan and America,the bombing of Pearl Harbor, officially was the boiling point for America who was initially neutral,but chose to join the Allies and declare war on Japan. ... America wanted Japan to stop attempting to take over China and Indonesia,because the US did not want them to expand their empire. ... Because of America,The Netherlands and The UK freezing and reducing the materials they gave them, this angered Japan, and Japan's anger was a key reason behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor and why Japan decided to it. ... Although Japan f...

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The bomb quickly yielded the surrender of Japan and the end of the American involvement in World War II. ... Also the American soldiers were going through very harsh treatment by the Japanese. ... The Japanese would not surrender to the Americans, they would rather die than surrender. ... Also the American soldiers were going through very harsh treatment by the Japanese. ... The Japanese would not surrender to the Americans, they would rather die than surrender. ...

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After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, Truman's primary objective was to end the war quickly with little loss of American life. ... Truman's goal was to spend less on American casualties, so the best solution to accomplish his objective was to drop the bomb on Hiroshima after the intense fire-bombing of about 37 Japanese cities (Langley 17). ... Numbers of American lives lost in the battle of Iwo Jima was 20,000, in the battle of Okinawa 41, 700 but the casualty rate of civilians and soldiers for America was 418,500. ... An example of a leaflet that was dropped in ...

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In his letter, he also claimed that the Japanese deserved it since the bombing of Pearl Harbor destroyed 3 battleships, and killed 6,000 Americans (Harry S. ... Despite the oppositions, most Americans still saw the dropping of the bombs as a victorious act by Truman. ... On December 7, 1941, Japan made the decision for Roosevelt, when Japanese aircrafts launched a surprise attack on one of America's main naval bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ... By destroying Japan, before the Soviets interfere, America would have more control. ... The Americans had only done underground explosions, and o...

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Given the devastating 1945 atomic bomb tragedy in Hiroshima, where the political interests of both parties, Japan and America, were involved, different ways of telling the story have been created. This matter could be examined clearly under the scope of the two films about the tragedy made by the two countries in the years that followed: The Beginning or the End (1947) by American and Children of Hiroshima (1952) by Japanese. With certain stark differences, the two films subtly underlie how America and Japan's perceptions of the incident diverge. ... Secondly, the use of the camera also ...

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"Hiroshima Diary" revealed to me that I am a product of American culture, and in doing so, opened my eyes to civilian Japanese sentiment in 1945, and the perspective of those in the midst of the horrors at Hiroshima. ... A different type of personal embarrassment was imposed upon me when I read some of the reactions of the Japanese to American troops in the days following the bombing. ... For the first time ever, I felt that some aspects of the atom bombs in Japan were worse than that of Pearl Harbor, simply because I was looking from a non-American perspective. ... Throughout my study of Am...

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Truman had given Japan an opportunity to surrender, warning them of complete destruction, but the ultimatum that he sent was ignored and the Japanese government ignored it and faced, "utter devastation," (HIST, 426). ... This lead to the inevitable surrendering of Japan. ... I believe that the use of the atomic bomb was what saved countless amount of both American lives and the lives of people in other countries, I believe President Truman and his team made the right decisions. ... There is no way we would be able to tell exactly how many lives were saved just by the fact that we w...

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On the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb ever. ... Truman knew nothing about the bomb and its effects yet hastily decided that the bomb be used on Japan, considering Germany was no longer a target with the war in Europe over. ... Nevertheless, the decision was made that the bombs would be used until Japan surrendered. ... Most of the people in the United States of America supported the use of the atomic bomb; even President Truman called it, "the greatest thing in history" (Beyer 75)....

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It missed its mark but still had a devastating effect on Nagasaki causing an unconditional surrender by the Japanese. The making of American's first atomic bomb was a long and triumphant journey (Gene). ... After the first bomb was dropped, the Japanese did not surrender so a second bomb was dropped. ... Finally the Japanese surrendered and the madness was stopped. ... Although we did triumph over the Japanese with the atomic bomb, it is still considered a weapon of mass destruction. ...

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In John Hersey's Hiroshima many Japanese citizens are effected by something that happened in a matter of seconds, the dropping of the first atomic bomb. ... Though on August 6th 1945, American troops dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. ... Father Kleinsorge loved Japan so much that he registered himself as a Japanese citizen, under the name Father Makoto Takakura and joined a Misasa congregation. ...

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In John Hersey's Hiroshima many Japanese citizens are effected by something that happened in a matter of seconds, the dropping of the first atomic bomb. ... Though on August 6th 1945, American troops dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. ... Father Kleinsorge loved Japan so much that he registered himself as a Japanese citizen, under the name Father Makoto Takakura and joined a Misasa congregation. ...

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