Bombs That Changed History! December 7th, 1941, the WWII was still raging in Europe between the Axis Powers Block led by Germany on one side and the Allies consisting of the United Kingdom, France, and Poland on the other side. At the same time, in another part of the world, the United States of America was still in its era of Isolationism. This era ended on Sunday morning at 7:55 am when Japan decided to viciously attack the American pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The sudden heinous attack invoked a vast nationalism sentiment in the American people, which was reason enough for the US to join World War II. The war was tremendously heating up between the Imperial Japanese and the US naval fleets until Truman, the US president at the time, made a radical decision that changed the course of history. He decided to use the first ever seen unconventional …show more content…
To this day, many scholars still argue the morality and justification of using such destructive force. However, President Truman’s decision was a wise and calculated one because of many reasons: it avenged the attack on American soil, it saved many more American and Japanese lives that would have been killed if the war was to continue, and it ranked the USA’s military as number one of the world’s most powerful while stopping Japan’s ambition to control the Indian and Pacific oceans. Japan’s decision to attack Pearl Harbor was by far mal advised and poorly thought through. This decision eventually brought the Japanese Empire to its own demise. In the years prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, Japan harbored anger and resentment towards the Allies, mainly America, due to the economic and military sanctions imposed on it. Moreover, there was the defiance and stubbornness of the Japanese state of mind at the time. This sentiment