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How Did Truman Make Wrong Decisions

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Did you know that 105,000 Japanese lifes were taken on August 6th 1945 after the US dropped the atomic bomb. In 1945 the US had a big decision to make. They have been working on an Nuclear bomb since 1939. In 1945 it was ready to be dropped. President Truman made a big decison to drop it on Japan to try to wrap up and end the war. The question everyone is asking is, did Truman make the right decision? I think President Truman made the wrong decision. He chose to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. The three considerations that lead to this judgment were: A lot of innocent souls died, Japan was going to back out of the war anyway, and dropping the bomb cost Japan a lot of money to fix.

Truman's decision to bomb Japan was wrong because he killed a bunch of innocent lifes. One peice of evidence that shows Truman made a poor decision is, "The immediate deaths caused by atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was 66,000" A second piece of evidence that shows Truman made the wrong decision is, "A mother and her baby were lying with skin completely peeled off." The decision that Truman made for dropping the atomic bomb is weak because he killed so many lifes. He dropped the atomic bomb not …show more content…

One piece of evidence that shows Truman made the wrong decision is "Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped," A second piece of evidence that shows Truman made the wrong decision is, " the prime minister, the foreign minister and the navy minister had decided as early as May of 1945 that the war should be ended even if it meant acceptance of defeat on allied terms…." Truman's main argument and reasoning for dropping the bomb was he wanted to wrap up the war and just end it. But if all of Japan's head people came together and all agreed and decided that they were all going to surrender. Then dropping the bomb was uncessary and US could have avoided it all

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