How Did Harry S. Truman Affect The Bombing Of Japan?

Initially, the bombs were created as a defense mechanism but Truman was unprepared for a presidential role when he unexpectedly replaced Roosevelt. Before Truman made the initial choice to drop “Little Boy,” Japan was severely close to surrendering to the United States. “The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons…” (Doc 2) Admiral William D. Leahy was against the dropping of the atomic bomb because of the overall success of United States troops.

On August 6, 1945, “Little Boy” the first atomic bomb, was dropped on the city of Hiroshima and three days later, “Fat Man” a second bomb, was dropped on Nagasaki, resulting in the untimely death of over 20,000 people. This was done as an offensive and retaliation by the United States of America, whom had feeling of revenge and an unwavering desire to end an ongoing war as quickly and decisively as possible, against the Japanese for the bombing of Pearl Harbor. However, this took place right after a demand for an unconditional surrender of the Japanese by the Allied leaders by means of a Potsdam Declaration, in late July 1945, was flatly rejected by Japanese leaders. Thus resulting in the use of these atomic bombs being authorized by President Truman.

August 6, 1945 forever changed the world, as the United States unleashed the most powerful weapon known to man, the Atomic

President Harry S. Truman had the power to end war with Japan, but it would involve unleashing the most terrible weapons ever known. The world changed when the United State dropped the first atomic bomb on Japanese city, Hiroshima seventy thousands of Japanese citizens vaporized. Three days later another bomb was dropped on Japanese city, Nagasaki eighty thousands Japanese citizens perished. The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, lead many historians and policy analyst to questioned if president Truman was correct in dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. In my opinion, President Truman was correct in his decision to drop the atomic bomb.

President Truman elected to use the atomic bomb against Japan to hasten the end of the World War II. President Truman saw no issues with using the atomic bomb against Japan if it would save American lives in doing so (Roark 856). Japan, with their numerous defeats, still had millions of reserves to use as a last-minute defense against the Allies. U.S. military advisers estimated that the last-minute defense would kill at least 250,000 Americans (Roark 856). President Truman issued an ultimate surrender completely or face ruin. The Japanese failed and the U.S. bombed Hiroshima on August 6. When Japan would still not surrender the U.S. used a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9. Japan surrendered on August 14, after receiving assurance

The use of the atomic bombs on Japan was perhaps the most controversial decision the United States of America has made. However, with the controversy surrounding this decision it’s no surprise that there are a lot of opinions regarding President Truman's time in office and whether or not the use of the atomic bombs were the most effective way to end the Pacific War.

As a person, sometimes, is hard to make decision that can change history, it is even harder for the president of the United States. When you are the president and there’s a war occurring you must understand that every decision you make impacts the country in every way. When another country attempts an attack on your country, as a president you need to make the best decision to overcome the attack and to protect every citizen of the country. These are the decisions that President Franklin D Roosevelt had to make it, however, when he passed away, Harry Truman had control power of the country and knew that he had to avenge Pearl Harbor. Before Truman can avenge Pearl Harbor, Albert Einstein endorsed a letter to President Roosevelt alerting him that there was an “extremely powerful bombs of a new type” and that the U.S. should begin a similar research. Eventually, this became the Manhattan Project, discovering nuclear fission as a weapon. In this essay we are going to speak about the decision that Truman made to drop the bomb, some arguments, and the interpretation.

Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, deployed the atomic bomb on Japan to ensure the end of the Pacific War with minimal US casualties. Upon rejection of the Potsdam Declaration and calls for unconditional surrender by the Japanese, the US in direct retaliation deployed the atomic weapon ‘Little Boy’ on the city of Hiroshima in August 6, 1945 and continued by bombing Nagasaki with ‘Fat Man’ on August 9th. The Allies had concluded the European front by capturing Berlin and

The atomic bomb was originally planned to be used on Germany to stop the Nazis (LaFeber, 2008). However, with the Allied countries closing in on Berlin and the suicide of Adolf Hilter, the Nazis surrendered without the need to use the atomic weapon. But the war still raged in the Asian theater with no hope of surrender by Japan. In July 1945, the Allies decreed that Japan must unconditionally surrender, but the Japanese refused. (Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, n.d.). President Truman felt that in using the bomb he would save not only American lives but Japanese as well

August 6, 1945, is still an extremely controversial day in history. It is the day that the United Stated will never live down and its people will always have opposite options about. Even though World War II is coming to a close, it is also the day the United States dropped an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People were going about their daily business, however, even after the all clear was given a bomb would be dropped. Neither Japan or the United States would be the same after the. Even though there were two other options presented to the United States they still decided to use the atomic bomb. It is difficult to say whether the United States was justified since they have been the only one to ever drop such a bomb on their enemy.

On August 6, 1945 President Truman made the biggest decision that would change many people’s lives forever, which was dropping the first atomic bomb on a city in Japan called Hiroshima. The atomic bomb had a code that only certain people from the U.S knew; the code name was called “little boy” (Hall). The atomic bomb caused a lot of damage to Japan, killing between 60,000 and 80,000 people in that second that the bomb was dropped (WW2 People’s War). The atomic bomb affected many people’s lives in many ways. Many people believed that it was wrong that President Truman dropped the bomb because there could have been another way to fight back. President Truman was very indecisive to whether or not to drop the bomb on Japan. President Trumans, final decision was the only right thing to do because the atomic bomb had many benefits for the U.S. such as ending World War II, saving many people’s lives and showing what the United States was capable of.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the US decided to march towards Japan. The pivotal battles of Midway, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa exhibited Japan’s unrelentless nationalism through the use of kamikazes and their bushido philosophy . Furthermore, this manifestation of imposed pride caused great fear for the Allies. President Truman felt that invading Japan would be a huge struggle, for Japan would do anything to protect their homeland. Truman decided to drop the atomic bombs on Japan, which were originally intended to be dropped on Germany if they did not surrender. On August 6, 1945, the atomic bombs, Fat Man and Little Boy were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the obliteration of the two cities,

On August 6, 1945, the plane Enola Gay dropped a nuclear weapon on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, at the command of President Harry Truman. Then, on August 9, 1945 a second atomic bomb was dropped on Japan in the city of Nagasaki. President Truman made this choice in an effort to end World War II. World War II began on September 1,1939 and ended on September 2,1945 ending in an Allie victory. This world was fought primarily by the Axis Powers: Germany, Austria, Italy, and Japan and the Allie Powers: Great Britain, France, The USSR, and the United States. President Truman made a difficult decision to drop nuclear weapons on Japan, because the factors leading up to the war, the circumstances that had already happened during World War II,

On December 7, 1941 we experienced a harmful attack on Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt ordered to declare war on Japan on the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. FDR predicted over 1.5million death's if the allies had to invade Japan. August 7, 1942 war on the pacific begins the allied and axis powers start to attack each other. The Japenese believed they were pushed into a corner by Roosevelt that caused them to attack us. The Japenese were falling rapidly and getting defeat which caused us to gain progress. President Truman knew we needed something powerful to do on the Japenese. So on August 3, 1945 president Truman declared to use the bomb anytime soon. So on a clear morning on August 6, 1945 the atomic bomb was

A similar reasoning could be applied to the usage of the second bomb, "fat man," which was dropped on Nagasaki three days later. One could wonder if the motive behind this second attack was similar to the first; the only difference being that the bomb to be "tested" this time was considerably more powerful.