Frida Fuzailov October 9, 2011
10x Essay Question 2

Throughout history, there have been major events or situations in one nation that affected both that nation and its surrounding nations in the world. Some of those major events occurred in the 20th century. One of those events was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. A second event would be South Africa under apartheid. At the end of World War II, there were the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in 1945. Before these two bombing occurred, the United States bombed 67 Japanese cities, and then finally when the Japanese government ignored the fact that the US wanted Japan to surrender, the US fired these two bombs. The affects on Japan were huge. 90,000-166,000 people were killed in Hiroshima, and 60,000-80,000 people were killed in Nagasaki. Still after the bombings many people were dying in hospitals from burns and other causes which affected the country because of its loss of population. Then finally on August 15, Japan declared its surrender and that ended World War II. A survivor described the damage of the bombing on Hiroshima:
“The appearance of people was . . . well, they all had skin blackened by burns. . . . They had no hair because their hair was burned, and at a glance you couldn't tell whether you were looking at them from in front or in back. . . . They held their arms bent [forward] like this . . . and their skin - not only on their hands, but on their faces and bodies too - hung down. . . . If there had been only one or two such people . . . perhaps I would not have had such a strong impression. But wherever I walked I met these people. . . . Many of them died along the road - I can still picture them in my mind -- like walking ghosts.”

Another survivor described the damage of Nagasaki:
“I saw the atom bomb. I was four then. I remember the cicadas