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The Thin Line 1945

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The Thin Line 1945 began the year of increasing tensions between many countries as the war fell onto its sixth year. After the defeat of the Axis Powers in Europe, the focus had been turned toward the war in Asia and the Pacific in which the Allied Forces of Great Britain, Australia, and the USA were in conflict with the Axis power of Japan. The war had been put on hold so that Germany could be defeated in Europe instead of focusing on both fronts at once. When Japan entered the war, it began by cowardly attacking Hawaii while the city was asleep or worshipping. Japan murdered many men and women and took out a significant amount of our planes and ships docked in Pearl Harbor. After America was able to take a deep breath by focusing her anger on the Germans, she was still hungry for Japanese …show more content…

Is it really right to say that they were unnecessary weapons to use when looking at these statistics? By using the bombs, Americans were able to save lives by sacrificing a small portion of lives to show that we mean business. It could even be said that the use of atomic weapons created a nuclear beginning to what started the Cold War, but the Soviets themselves were developing atomic weapons anyway because they gained access to the Manhattan Project and started an atomic weapons program in Russia. People have said that the US dropped them simply to show their pride and their authority, or just to be vengeful, without thinking about the true consequences. This is an absolute insult to this country’s leaders and soldiers of this era, and the U.S. was right on target when it came to using a bomb or not using a bomb. Again, the only reason an atomic bomb was used is due to the fact that it saved more lives than what would have been if it was not used. Especially since America already had a powerful infrastructure, with the greatest military of all, and the greatest

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