in the pacific front and Eisenhower was in Italy. Hiroshima was bombed by the first ever nuclear bomb. It killed thousands from the initial waves and then thousands more after with radiation. Nagasaki was later bombed after Japan didn’t surrender. Japan lost millions of lives because of bombing Pearl Harbor. Thousands died in Hawaii as well. The effect on Japan from these bombs and war with the U.S. was tremendous. The U.S. decided to bomb Hiroshima because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and were attacking
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In John Hersey’s Hiroshima, community ties has greater importance than family ties. An example of a community tie shown in Hersey’s Hiroshima is when Mr. Tanimoto helps the evacuees on his way to his church to take care of the people of his Neighborhood Association. With determination, Mr. Tanimoto “...began carrying water to the suffering strangers. When he had given drink to about thirty of them, he realized he was taking too much time. ‘Excuse me… I have many people to take care of,’ he stated”
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The Great Gatsby. Through the initial planning of the story the concept was to expose the effects of war on people. I took inspiration through the people impacted by the Hiroshima bombings during WWII, which is represented by the bombing which turning the town into a desolate wasteland, by reading firsthand accounts of the bombings. This helped me create my initial concept, which focused of the long-lasting effects of war, like cancer,
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THE FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST: THE RAPE OF NANKING “Chinese men where used for bayonet practice and in decapitation contests. An estimated 20,000-80,000 Chinese women were raped. Many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel women, slice off their breasts, and nail them alive to walls. Fathers were forced to rape their daughters and son their mothers, as other family member watched…” The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang One of the most horrific events in human history, the Rape of Nanking is an example
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The atomic bomb and the science behind the BOOM! The power of atomic bomb comes from an immediate release of energy created by breaking apart the nuclei of fissionable elements such as, the uranium and plutonium that occupy the bombs’ center. Uranium and plutonium were chosen to be the center of the atomic bomb because they can create something called fission. Fission happens when a neutron hits either the uranium or plutonium neutrons. It breaks the nucleus into pieces and out-puts a large amount
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Eisenhower ordered thousands of aircrafts, ships and soldiers to invade France. By August, most of France had been liberated and Germany was defeated. The last affair of World War II was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima instantly killing ninety percent of the population. The next day a bomb was also dropped on Nagasaki which killed forty thousand civilians. If the Japanese were not killed instantly by the blast
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Many kinds of weapons were used in the Second World War. And of those weapons, many of them were brand new technology, developed for the war. The countries in this war all had their own special branches of technology, and used them to create weapons of destruction, ensuring their winning the battle, and bringing their soldiers home. There were three large contributors to the weapons front of the war: Small Arms, Tanks, and the Atomic Bomb. In this paper, I will explain what those weapons were, what
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Over half a million German civilians had died, and 80,000 Allied airmen had perished as well. Was the bombing strategically or morally justified? In Fire and Fury, Prof. Hansen (Toronto), a specialist in multiculturalism who has investigated the question of German civilian losses in the war and worked to counter Holocaust Denial, examines the American and British approaches to strategic bombing, and finds that the two nations used very different methods, which produced very different results.
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The original plan called for the bombing of five major cities by American aircraft (ushmm.org). Unfortunately, all of the aircrafts had to vacate a day earlier because many were doubtful about the idea of staying any longer. Several bombs hit civilian areas killing fifty people and injuring
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