This essay looks into the reasons behind Truman's decision, and the series of events that led to it, including the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Arms Race, and the need for peace. ... This was when the United States declared war on Japan, following the bombing of the Pearl Harbor. ... 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. ... On December 7, 1941, Japan made the decision for Roosevelt, when Japanese aircrafts launched a surprise attack on one of America's main naval ba...

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"December 7, 1941: A day that will live in infamy,"" went President Roosevelt's address to the nation following the terrible attack on Pearl Harbor. ... Hawaii served as America's midway point between the mainland and Japan, and although the Japanese attempted to wipe out much of those offenses in the Pearl Harbor attacks, the American naval fleet struck back with a vengeance. ...

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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". ... This non-Western account made me believe for the first time that, in some respects, the dropping of the atomic bombs in Japan during August, 1945 was more deplorable than the Japanese offensive at Pearl Harbor. ... 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 loo...

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The December 7, 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was one of the great defining moments in history. ... Harry Truman made the following statements to the press after the bombings: "The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. ... We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. ...

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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. ... Japan felt that Truman was bluffing because they just wanted the Japanese to surrender but he believed it was justifiable to send a warning as to that japan did not when they attacked Pearl Harbor and that they wanted the citizens to flee. ...

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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. ... Some could say it was payback for the attack on Pearl Harbor. ...

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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. ... The intensity of this prejudice came from the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. ...

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Japan found the United States was getting in the way of their goals, so the Japanese bombed a military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ... But instead of stopping the United States from getting in the way of Japan's conquests, the bombing of Pearl Harbor propelled the US and Japan into a Pacific war. ...

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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. Many people in the United States t...

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Introduction Weapons of mass destruction are highly dangerous and are used against societies and organizations to bring them down. They are mostly used by terrorists. Weapons of mass destruction come in four major different ways. They are biological, chemical, and nuclear and radiological weap...

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Hiroshima In What Did You Do In The War by Zoe Tracy Hardy, Hardy talks about her experience working in the Glenn L. Martin Company, which made the B-29 bombers, and the great Superfortresses. Hardy wanted to make a difference, she did a year at the University of Iowa, and she felt that it just was...

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