Was The U.S. Justified? Did you know that after the annexation of Texas, The United States was going to continue its path of Manifest Destiny and take over California? Leading up to the Mexican-American War, the war was between the United States and Mexico in 1844. The war started when the United States tried to invade Texas from Mexico. The United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico because Mexico claims that the annexation of Texas was illegal and violated security reasons, the United States straight up attacked Mexico, and the United States broke Mexico’s law by bringing slaves into Mexican land.
Imagine being put in a predicament whereby you have to make a crucial decision, either by dropping bombs to save countless lives or to let the enemy proceed on brutally killing thousands more…What would you do? Quite frankly I feel that the answer is a “no brainer!” Harry Truman’s decision, the president of the US, on dropping atomic bombs upon Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified. Japan was the one who first attacked the American Pearl harbour, and up until this time America was completely neutral during the war.
World War Two was a long extended period of fighting, Grief, and Death. Allied forces slowly gained naval and air fights in the Pacific. Soldiers had to deal with harsh rain conditions, Mud, and Humid heat. US soldiers were not prepared for the heat condition, and they had to carry equipment everywhere they went. The water and food supply was rationed to save food.
President Harry Truman was justified in dropping the atomic bomb since it saved millions of American lives by ending the war as soon as possible, and established the United States as the greatest country in the world. With the bomb, America could “attack those that have hurt [America]” and save many American lives (Truman, Doc A). As part as revenge for Pearl Harbor, America was able to redeem itself against Japan with this bomb. It would make a statement to the world and force an unconditional surrender from Japan, as fast as possible. That would end the war and potentially save millions of young American soldiers.
In the year of 1945, the U.S. had dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, causing a lot of damage. The U.S. was justified when dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima because the Japanese was already ready to surrender and the japanese was already defeated, so there was no point. The bomb killed so many lives that shouldn't have been taken. Thousands of innocent people died or got wounded very badly, which was very unnecessary. Some people even became really sick as well, which was completely unnecessary.
In August 1945 President Truman decided to drop two atomic bombs on Japan. The United states should have not of dropped the bomb on japan. There are several reasons the U.S. shouldn’t drop the bomb. The bomb hurt a lot of people, separated and hurt families, and destroyed homes and buildings. The bombings probably killed more than 200,000 Japanese civilians and maimed untold more.
Step into Hiroshima history, where the atomic bomb not only ended World War II but sparked a heated debate. Were the Americans justified in bombing Hiroshima? Is the question that still lingers to this day. The Americans were not justified in bombing Hiroshima, what did they get out of it, and what events did it cause to change the world? The United States of America was not just in the bombing of Hiroshima in a variety of ways.
There have been multiple discussions about the moral judgements of whether it is acceptable for America to drop this bomb on Hiroshima and kill thousands of people in order to end the war. America should have not drop the atomic bomb for multiple reasons. Bombing this city was not morally right. The bombs and radiation that came from the bombs killed thousands of innocent people and most civilians who had little to no effect in the war. This is shown through sense perception, language and emotion.
The Dropping of Atomic Bombs on Japan, is an argument that still gets discussed in the present days. Historians disagree with each other about the dropping of the bombs being a justified action. There are many arguments discussing this topic, making some of them stronger than the others, more justified than the ones that appear weaker. Arguments such as saving lives of both sides, Japanese war crimes and shortening of the war are some of the stronger justified reasons. Though people argue that there are unjustified reasons, such as that there alternatives, that it was inhuman and that it was used to scare the Russians/Soviet Union away were some of the stronger unjustified reasons.
Why the American bombing, still the turning point in a WW2 history, cannot be morally justified? The Historic Reasoning The USSR declared war against Japan on August 8 to meet the obligations before the Allied Powers; however, unexpectedly, on August 6 and 9 of 1945 the U.S. Air Forces dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a result, Japan signed peace treaty in the WW2 on September 2, 1945. Still the position of the U.S.A. was neither necessary nor sufficient to end the war this way.
The text states “The Japanese had demonstrated near-fanatical resistance, fighting to almost the last man on Pacific islands, committing mass suicide on Saipan and unleashing kamikaze attacks at Okinawa. Fire bombings had killed 100,000 in Tokyo with no discernible political effect. Only the atomic bomb could jolt Japan's leadership
the bomb’s code name was “Little Boy”. Three days later, on August 9th, 1945, America dropped another bomb on Nagasaki with the code name “Fat Man”. As many as 200,000 deaths were caused by “Little Boy” alone and many people would die of radiation for years to come. The dropping of the Atom bomb on Hiroshima is an extremely debatable issue with no right or wrong answer. In this essay I will describe both sides to the argument then conclude using my final opinion on whether I am for or against the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima.
Many believed that the use of the atomic bombs by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was to save American lives and to shorten the agony of the war. American policymakers and many historians believed that dropping the bombs on the islands of Japan have saved tens of thousands of American lives, the morality of its use was defensible. However, “if, as many critics suggested, the bomb was not needed to end the war or to save lives, then its morality seems highly questionable” (Walker). Indeed, the United States was not in need to use the atomic bombs to end the Pacific war. Oh clarifies this in his article by stating that “Japan would have surrendered even if the bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and
“The Rape of Nanking did not penetrate the world consciousness in the same manner as the Holocaust or Hiroshima because the victims themselves had remained silent” (Chang). Many people remember World War II as the mass killing of many Jewish people by Hitler in Europe, but in fact, that was not the only terrible incident to happen during WWII. Nanking, a city in China’s capital had been overtaken by the Japanese Imperial Army who marched into the city of Nanking and proceeded to murder 300,000 civilians and soldiers in the city which was about half the population of the city at the time. In only six weeks, during December 1937 through February 1938, “this would become known as the Rape of Nanking represented as the single worst atrocity during the the Second World War
The United States decision to bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in my opinion based on the Just War Theory was not justified, because the Japanese nationals were punished collectively because of the actions of their
