Summary: Should The Atomic Bomb Put An End To WWII

Should the Atomic Bomb Put an End to WWII?

One of the greatest battles of mankind was known as the Second World War. The war, which took place in the twentieth century, helped spark a new world where innovations in technology were made and many changes such as the stop of European colonialism, the civil rights movement in the US, the women’s rights movement, and the exploration of outer space were brought. It was the most violent war of all time with the amount of human lives lost estimated to be around fifty million. One of the nations involved was the United States, when they declared war on Japan and dropped two atomic bombs on Japan which eventually led to the end of the war, but has been a controversial issue ever since. There are people

Although the base was the primary target of the Japanese, they ended killing more than 2,400 Americans and damaged 300 planes as well as eighteen ships including U.S.S. battleships. The Japanese government had been searching for way to help Japan’s economic and demographic problems and decided to expand its territory into Hawaii and benefit from it’s import market. Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor was smart, because they planned to kill the Pacific Fleet so that Americans would not prevent them from expanding. No one could have imagined that Japan would attack the United States in such way for many reasons including that Japan and the US were separated by about four thousand miles of sea and another being that the officials in the US imagined they would get a glimpse of Japan wanting to go to war because they would invade Europe first. Because the government did not see an attack would come, they left the naval base in Hawaii nearly

The ultimatum they would send to Japan would like a decision made by the Japanese government and would relieve tension on the United States. The government would tell Japan that if they denied stopping, then the Atomic Bomb would be