... administrators felt deployment of the new weapon was the only justification to Congress and the public for spending two billion dollars on the research and development for it. Others felt that Japan needed to be punished for the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor and felt the atomic bomb would destroy enough so the American public would finally feel Pearl Harbor avenged. The use of the bomb would also allow ... Japan to save face to themselves and the world. The Japanese army, ... prepared to fight to the death to avoid dishonor, would not consider surrendering even when ... ...

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... believe that Saddam Hussein is not really a threat to other nations? It seems plausible that Iraq is harboring and developing these nuclear and chemical weapons just for the sake of technology. I believe that the United States feels threatened by these powerful weapons. They want to be careful because they know if Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, they could use them against ... and uninvolved in this war until the attack at Pearl Harbor by Japan." (Feldmeth) This forced Congress to declare war against Japan, Germany, and Italy. America was actually forced into war after the Pearl Ha...

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... similar. Obviously Hitler was a German Nazi leader and Hussein is an Islamic Iraqi leader. But as well all know the depth of human nature does not change by race or religion. Hitler swallowed countries and destroyed Jewish people in a large ... success. But now after Osama bin Laden's attack on the United States September 11, we are not able to just sit back and contain possible terrorism. The many governments of the world feel that it needs to be wiped out. Since ... Iraq, to Bin Laden. Bush has been acting very bluntly in his speeches lately, challenging the U.N. to step up and take c...

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The main reason for the start of the Manhattan Project and the production of the atom bomb was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Manhattan Project was appointed by Harry S. Truman. The first atom bomb was dropped on August6, 1945, on Hiroshima, Japan. The blast wiped out a 4.7 square mile area, killing over seventy thousand people. Another seventy thousand people were injured from the blast. After the first ... atom bomb, President Truman issued a stern warning to Japan to stop the ... 8, 1945, but only to gain territory. The next day on August ninth, the united stated dropped a seco...

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... , who was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project and witness for the Truman Defense, agreed that dropping the bombs was necessary to end the war and it was the US" only alternative. The US gave a clear warning that military action would have been used if they did not surrender. Japan is lucky that the US even gave them warning before they attacked. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was ... completely unexpected and cowardly. They killed many innocent Americans in this ambush, and Truman's response to it was the dropping of the atomic bombs. It was only fair to get revenge on Japan...

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... following the Geneva convention in regards to treatment of prisoners of war. Which says that the prisoners are not to be put through torture of the psychological or physical nature. The Japanese did these things anyway, they would decapitate American prisoners, or they would shove bamboo shoots under their fingernails. The American government also wanted revenge for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. ... No warning was given by the Japanese to the Americans and no war was declared until after the incident. The Russian territorial expansion definitely played a factor in the dropping th...

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... is that almost no country wanted another war of such destruction, especially during the socioeconomic crisis that was the Great Depression. No one expected a leader such as Adolph Hitler to overtake an entire country and enact the world's greatest genocide. It certainly was a surprise that Japan would launch an attack on Pearl Harbor and at that time no one expected a nuclear bomb would end ... the war. Both wars had similar consequences. After the wars it left Germany in a bind, it left millions of people dead, and ... it still left tension among participating countries. World War one...

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... is that almost no country wanted another war of such destruction, especially during the socioeconomic crisis that was the Great Depression. No one expected a leader such as Adolph Hitler to overtake an entire country and enact the world's greatest genocide. It certainly was a surprise that Japan would launch an attack on Pearl Harbor and at that time no one expected a nuclear bomb would end ... the war. Both wars had similar consequences. After the wars it left Germany in a bind, it left millions of people dead, and ... it still left tension among participating countries. World War one...

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... was once the land of opportunity was now the land of desperation. What was once the land of hope and optimism had become the land of despair. The American people were questioning what they had in there lives in America on which they had based their lives.(2) The feeling of security in your own house had melted away from people. If the government couldn't protect Pearl then how ... can they protect each and every one of us? The United States was in no condition to go to war. Rations and job shortages were on ... the mind of the people of the United States of America. If the government d...

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... Treaty of Versailles actually initiated World War II, rather than give peace to Europe. The treaty's declaration that Germany was entirely to blame for the war was humiliating to the German people. Furthermore, the treaty pushed steep payments on Germany, forcing the country to bear the financial burden of the war. The Second World War began in September 1939, when Germany, under control of Chancellor Adolf ... at Stalingrad. On May 2nd, 1945, the German capital of Berlin surrendered to the Soviet forces. On April 30th, Hitler committed suicide. On May 8th, an unconditional surrender wa...

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... room. Upon receiving the news of the Russians atomic testing, Hoover spent nearly a page in the novelle reflecting upon it. "He stamps the date it works into him, makes him think of the spies changes him physically as he stands there, drawing the skin tighter across his face, sealing his gaze" (DeLillo 23-24). He receded into a memory of Pearl Harbor then envisioning "the sun's own heat that ... swallows cities"(DeLillo 24). Acknowledging his current surroundings, Hoover realized, "all these people formed by languages and climate and popular songs and breakfast foods and the jokes they ...

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... War II has been described by historians as a "Water shed" event, because of its major impact on American History. Involvement in the war pulled America out of the Great Depression and gained the United States the reputation of the world's greatest military power. The war was also intrigued in giving women rights that they never had before, changed lives of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Jewish ... legislation was passed so they could receive freedom they deserved. Another ethnic group that was dramatically impacted by World War II was the Japanese Americans. After the attack ...

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... Force leaders, Major General Curtis E. LeMay said, "the atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all." (Page 335). Among some of the people that supported the use of the bomb were the American citizens back at home. They just wanted peace, and for the war to be over with. Still feeling the sting from Pearl Harbor in World War I, many of them wanted some ... kind of retribution. Polls taken in August of 1945 indicated that an astounding 85 percent of Americans supported the use of the Atomic Bomb ... . Though the bomb could ... ...

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... be destroyed with an atomic bomb, was to seek revenge for the attack against Pearl Harbor that had occurred earlier in the war on December 7th, 1941. Since Pearl Harbor was struck by a secret military attack the Americans felt that Japan should be repaid with a similar act of violence. "The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold"" (Public Papers of ... used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor" "(Public Papers of the President: Truman, 1945). The reason for the atomic bombing lay in the desire for revenge that accom...

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... that it accomplished anything. I think that we had something that we were just dying to try and unfortunately for Japan who killed some of our people with their attack on Pearl Harbor. Many people say that the United States knew that something was going to happen. I, being a very proud American would like to think that is not ... State citizens believed in their country and most of all believed in their president. They thought that they were just getting back at the Japanese for what they did in Pearl Harbor. An eye for an eye, you killed our brothers now you will pay. The controversy l...

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... of people who say that the bomb was the wrong thing to do doesn't think of what the Japanese did to the U.S. They killed and sunk many ships in their air raid in Pearl Harbor. I think that the Japanese deserved some warning. After all the Japanese did give warning of the Pearl Harbor attack. It was probably the right thing to do at the time. After the bomb was dropped and all ... the devastation was seen I think that everyone that was ... a part of building or the decision to make the bomb felt extremely bad. I don't think anyone ... ...

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... war in which Zinn is not justified in condemning. That war is World War Two. The unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese brought America into the war. Zinn, however, tries to give the reader other reasons and explanations for why the US joined the war and attempts to list all of the instances when America had denied freedom from people of other countries. He said that ... the United States had "opposed the Hatian revolution for independence from France . . . It had instigated a war with Mexico ... . . . It had pretended to help Cuba win freedom from Spain." While Zinn points ...

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... married in 1916. In his early military career, he excelled in assignments, serving under Generals such as John J. Pershing, Douglas Mac Arthur, and Walter Krueger. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, General George C. Marshall called him to Washington for a war plans assignment. He then commanded the Allied Forces landing in North Africa in November of 1942. He also was selected to command ... the Normandy Invasion, also know as D-day, where the Allies crossed the English Channel into German premises. The Normandy Invasion is the most important job Eisenhower had in his military career. ...

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... longer safe. Americans now have to get used to the idea that we are vulnerable. There hasn't been an attack on mainland America since the Revolutionary War. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was the last major attack on America, and that was a military base. Soldiers were the casualties in that attack, but in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers on September 11th, civilians were ... the casualties. Since that terrible day, many people have asked the question,Should we fight?? The answer, according to Paul Starr ... ...

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... reason for this is because America soon learned of the harsh radiation after-effects of the bomb. Also, as a new generation of people was formed, there was no longer a deep sense of hatred towards the Japanese. This is because these people did not live through the Rape of Nanking, Pearl Harbor, the Baatan Death March, Okinawa, and Iwo Jima. Because of these reasons, more and more ... people started to feel that the bomb was unjust and that American should not have used it. Though this is ... the case, there are still many people who believe the dropping of the bomb was just. Therefore,...

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... from the past where they were badly treated, and have blocked the repetition from generation to generation by protesting and changing habits. Another example is the Atomic bomb. On August 6 1945 the U.S.A who, for the first time in history, used atomic bombs to bomb Hiroshima, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the atomic bomb ... for another bomb to be used. But there is still a possibility that it can happen again, if people are not conscious enough to learn from the devastation, which happened last time, and again it would be a different situation and a different time. So therefo...

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... States still continued to expand and trade with other nation. In the 1800s, the Monroe Doctrine reinforced this concept when it stated that the United States will not get involved in European affairs with nation in the Western Hemisphere. The concept endured until the 1940s when the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor. As a result of the attack, United States was forced to enter World War II and thereafter, isolationism gradually ... started to disappear. Afterwards, the United States became involved in many organizations, most notably the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the United Na...

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... American prisoners, or they would shove bamboo shoots under their fingernails. The American government also wanted revenge for the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese gave no warning to the Americans and no war was declared until after the incident. The Russian territorial growth definitely played a factor in the dropping the bomb. The Soviets were helping the Chinese with the war against Japan and later would get railroads in China when ... Japan completely surrendered. The Americans did not want the Russians to get involved in ... ...

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... convulsive and traumatic of America's three wars in Asia in the 50 years since Pearl Harbor. It set the U.S. economy on a downward spiral. It left America's foreign policy at least temporarily in disarray, discrediting the postwar policy of containment and undermining the consensus that supported it. It divided the American people as no other event since their own Civil War a ... century earlier. One in ten who served in this war was a casualty. Was this war worth it? I think not. The ... . They influenced and bullied other countries into supporting Communism as well. Against Communism,...

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... had the most effects of any war in history. The three main causes of the war were the problems left unsolved by World War I, the rise of dictators in Europe, and the desire of Italy, Germany, and Japan for territory. The policy of isolationism was broken in the United States when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, dragging America into the war. The war was fought on two fronts, Europe and the Pacific. The allies ... , which included the United States, England ... ...

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