Harry S. Truman was the man of Missouri, and the son of a farmer. Truman was the thirty third president of the United States of America. He was a democrat; inaugurated in 1945 after the president Franklin D. Roosevelt had passed, and served until 1953. The world was stunned, and Americans held their breath to see what he had planned for them. He had common sense which is what a president really needs. He was known to be honest, moral, down to earth, and loved by many for those reasons. He had a
ultimate reason for President Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. They were confident that the application of atomic bombings would end up the war faster. At that, they forgot about horrific consequences of more than thousands of innocent deaths. The counter argument in this context was that Japan made the attack on the United States. After the horrible event, Americans questioned themselves whether Truman really saved lives by killing the enemies. Truman wanted to save lives and
DECISION-MAKING: TRUMAN AND THE ATOMIC BOMB Background: World War II was coming to an end. Germany surrendered in May 1945. In the Pacific, Japan was in retreat. It had lost most of the lands it had conquered. The fighting became harder as the Americans came closer to Japan because many Japanese soldiers would rather die fighting than surrender. The Emperor they worshipped told them soldiers who died in battle would have a glorious afterlife. Japanese suicide pilots called “kamikazes” sank American
Was America justified in dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945? The Atomic bomb was dropped on 6th August 1945 on Hiroshima and on 9th August on Nagasaki, Japan by the order president of America, Harry S. Truman. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in history up to date. In most of Europe war had ended, but in Asia, Japan were still resisting. With the recent surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941), America was thinking on launching a full scale invasion
August of 1945 was the month when an atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulting in over 40,000 deaths. Six days later Japan surrendered and ended World War ll. But there is much speculation over whether the atomic bombing of these two cities was the best way to get the message across. Robert Maddox and Gar Alperovitz are two men with opposing viewpoints on the bombs, Maddox is for the bombs and Alperovitz is against. The bombings done in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the lives of thousands
Truman, the president of the United States, and Josef Stalin, dictator of Russia, were rivals because of their huge differences in beliefs, lifestyle and their aims. The United States at this time was capitalistic while Russia was communistic. Their lifestyle