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The Battle of Iwo Jima (February to March 1945) was some of the deadliest and fiercest fighting in the Pacific Theatre of World War Two. The Unites States Armed Forces invaded the island in hopes of using it as a staging ground towards the larger invasion of the Japanese main islands. It was defended by determined and loyal Japanese forces. However, the American victory was assured due to their overwhelming control of the air and sheer number of forces. Of the 22,060 Japanese soldiers entrenched on the island, 18,844 died either from fighting or by ritual suicide. Only 216 were captured during the course of battle. The Japanese bushido code of honor, coupled with effective propaganda which portrayed American G.I.s as ruthless animals, prevented surrender for many Japanese soldiers.

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Operation Downfall was the codename for the planned but never executed American invasion plan for the Japanese mainland Islands during the end stages of World War Two in the Pacific Theatre. It was set to occur in October of 1945 and if it had taken place it would have been the largest amphibious attack in human history. The estimated American casualties for the invasion ranged wildly from one hundred thousand American casualties to over one million. The estimated numbers were calculated based on earlier battles in Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the heavy death tolls to American soldiers in these battles, and the expectation that the Americans would not only be fighting the Japanese Army but also a hostile civilian population who sought to protect their homeland.

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The United States was the first nation in history to use an atomic bomb against another nation. On August 6th, 1945 the American B-29 plane, Enola Gay, dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bombing instantly killed 70,000 to 80,000 Japanese in the city and tens of thousands more due to radiation exposure. Three days later on August 9th, the United States dropped another atomic bomb, named the Fat Man, on the city of Nagasaki. the bombing of Nagasaki would kill another 40,000 people. Japan surrendered soon after.

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In 1945, Secretary of War Stimson visited my headquarters in Germany, (and) informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Japan. I was one of those who felt that there were a number of cogent reasons to question the wisdom of such an act.... During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and second because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.' The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude, almost angrily refuting the reasons I gave for my quick conclusions.

-Dwight Eisenhower (American General during WWII and Former United States President from 1953-1961)

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The US was brought into the fighting of WWII in both the European and Pacific Theatres of war due to the Imperial Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. The Japanese surprise attacked the harbor in Hawaii with a variety of fighter planes and bombers with a major focus on trying to sink the American fleet of battleships. All eight of the American battleships were damaged and four of the eight were sunk in the harbor. The Japanese attack also damaged three American destroyers and three American cruisers. In all, 2402 Americans were killed and another 1282 were wounded. The intent of the Japanese attack was to inflict a preventative and decisive blow to the American Pacific naval fleet in order to allow itself free reign over the territory it sought in the South Pacific. The attack was profoundly shocking to the American public due to the magnitude of the attack and the fact that Japan surprise attacked the United States without issuing a formal declaration of war first. In a statement after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, United States President Truman stated that the "Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor... [and have now] been repaid many fold."

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As horrific as the Atom Bombs were, they did help finally end the war. They essentially were the cherry on top to finish off the Japanese.

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I think it was a good use because it gave us the upper hand and allowed us to use this new technology to ultimately get japan to surrender.

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Pearl Harbor created a desire for revenge and it brought the US into the war so it definitely was a big part and revenge.

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While the attack on Pearl Harbor was surprising and devastating, it doesn't justify the killing of thousands of innocent people. That's exactly what we were trying to avoid

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I think it was to show that the U.S was way stronger than them and to show we are main threats as a country.

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I agree with the statement because japan was the one that started the attacks and other countries started to join in.

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To stop Japan was a big deal, because the bomb was used it stopped them and had them surrender so it is somewhat justified but the amount of innocent people killed will never allow it to be fully justified.

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It allowed the U.S. to put their foot down and scare the japanese. It greatly scared the Japanese but the amount of people killed that were innocent does not full justify this

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Too many innocent people have died in vain,weren't meant to die.

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Although they did end war and showed that they weren't afraid to use their weapons or seem superior than the other countries, they still killed many innocent people and shouldn't have resulted to killed them.

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Since they were clearly at thier end point,but they would not back down because it was their way. The atomic bombs were to shut them up.

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Our goal was to take down Japan, but killing innocent people was not the way to do that

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I disagree with the idea to keep going with what was finished. I believe that they did not need to go further, again with the power dominance.They were nowhere near the level of others.

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I think it gave a message to Japan showing them whos the better country and who runs the war. And put a stop to everything

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Although dropping the bomb did cause an extreme number of deaths, it lead Japan to surrender and prevented many more US death and stopped the war from continuing on for much longer.

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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor murdered many innocent civilians and started a war that was not necessary. The U.S. was justified from this because of how many lives were lost in hawaii but I also believe that it could've been done another way that did not harm innocent lives in Japan

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The attack on pearl harbor was very tough, but the people who were killed were soldiers. The death of the soldiers is devastating, but when you see the bigger picture over 100k innocent people were killed.

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Using the atomic bombs allowed to change the tides of the war, resulting in Japan stepping down, despite the loss of a large amount of people, which shouldn't have happened - abby leynes

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I think that although it did help end the war, It could've been done another way instead of harming people that had no involvement.

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Operation downfall would have led in the murder of thousands of more Japanese people

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It doesnt fully justify the bombs, again yes Japan lowkey stabbed us in the back, but they suprise attacked us at a Naval base and not on land with a city full of innocent people, so its still not justifed.

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While it did help to finally put an end to the war, I this the bomb should have targeted a military base, not innocent civilians.

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Operation Downfall would have killed way to many innocent people

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Dropping the bomb was successful for them because it ended the war  but it killed many people 

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Dropping the bomb was successful for them because it ended the war  but it killed many people 

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You have to think about the any innocent people who were killed for no reason, our only thought was doing as much damage as we could so we could win the war.

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The surprise attack on pearl harbor did justify the use of the atomic bomb because in the moment of the attack, the only thing the US wanted was to get revenge for the deaths and damages Japan caused the US

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I believe Iwo Jima was more justified, as it was a plan for the U.S to attack and invade Japan and possibly not kill innocent people

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This does justify the bombs a bit more becuase the Japanese wouldve killed almost as many people as the bombs, but the bombs are such a big thing its hard to fully justify them.

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Pearl Harbor was almost like the fuel that started the fire. It made everyone want revenge w/ one another. It was a huge part of the war

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Although this lead to many innocent people losing their lives, the U.S used this as a way to show power and strength over Japan, ultimately making Japan surrender.

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The atomic bomb was a bit extreme because even though Japan killed many U.S soldiers and innocent civilians, it doesn't mean that the U.S. should do the same thing to their innocent civilians

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Operation downfall would have ceased in way too many many civilian deaths.

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Even the secretary of war believed the atomic bombs were an odd choice of attack. Japan was already defeated, there was no reason to drop the bomb

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Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was a tragic moment due to all the innocent lives lost when all the U.S. wanted was a sort of peace. Using the bombs to kill innocent lives in not something justifiable.

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The bombs here arent justifed at all, it almost seems as if there was def another way that tensions were gonna sort out.

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Since Japan was already defeated and devastated there definitely was no good reason to still go forward with dropping the bomb.

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I believe that Iowo Jima was justified because it did not take many innocent lives as the atomic bomb did. While the atomic bomb made Japan shut up and finally be scared of us, the deaths that were caused because of it were not worth it.

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Operation downfall would've killed way to many innocent lives that would've done more harm for everyone.

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Iwo Jima I feel was more justified because they actually had a reasonable plan and it didn't involve killing random civilians.

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Although it did give us the upper hand and showed the power the U.S. holds they killed many innocent civilians.

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Although this is a significant battle that happened it does not justify the destruction that the two atomic bombs have done.

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It was a big part coming from Japan to threaten the US by attacking Pearl Harbor by surprise so that the US is involved in the war after being neutral for so long - abby leynes

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There's no point in inflicting more damage than is necessary just because we want to show our dominance. Why kill more innocent people who shouldn't have died in the first place.

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The attack on Pearl Harbor has a big part on WWII as the U.S desired revenge against Japan and it is also the reason the U.S decided to join WWII.

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Why keep pouring salt in the wound when the conflict is over.

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It was unnecessary to want to drop another atomic bomb on japan if they are already devastated and didn't need anymore so there was no reason to inflict more pain.

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this does justify the use of the atomic bomb because the atomic bomb prevented this invasion from happening and extending the war and the possible deaths and casualties of the war

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The bombs prevented many American deaths and although were horrific did help stop the way and they were justified.

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Pearl Harbor was a terrifying situation for U.S Naval soldiers, what made it more scary was the U.S had no idea they were caught by surprise and were in bad position to defend themselves. There is no reason Japan should have attacked on Pearl Harbor.

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Operation Downfall would have lead to the death of far too many people and would have done more harm than good

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although lives were lost it achieved its intended goal

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The second bomb may have been pushing it, but the Japanese weren't going to give up to a second one secured a win against them.

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The pearl harbor attack was a tragic and gory attack, although it might justify for the bombing they still shouldn't have attacked innocent civilians and attacked military basis from japan or places where they might be rather than invading and mass killing Japanese civilians

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Iwa Jima created a sense for the US to judge an attack off of and it created a reason to bomb

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I think that Iowa Jima was more justifiable than the rest because the plan didn't kill as many innocent people as the other atomic bombs did.

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Japan already surrendered around september, which is before operation downfall, if they followed through with the plan, it would've resulted in even more death

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Although Japanese soldiers took the lives of innocents, it wasn't justified for the US to ruin the lives of the innocent people in Japan. Even if what the US decided to do was terrible, it had to happen because it's basically what forced Japan to stop occupying more land.

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The US launched the atomic bomb to show the amount of power they have to end the war, even if it meant killing thousands of people.

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the U.S. was allowed to attack japan because they attacked them first killing soldiers but  the U.S took many innocent peoples lives.

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Eisenhower spoke about his depression and spoke to Stimson that the bombs were out of line and that killing even more people wasn't worth the fight, but of course, Stimson disagreed

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Japan shouldn't have attacked pearl harbor they basically started a war from there leading to many innocent lives taken away.

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Japan shouldn't have attacked pearl harbor they basically started a war from there leading to many innocent lives taken away.

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this action is justifiable because they attaked us first and caused chaos which we should should make a counter-attack

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I understand why we had to go to war with Japan because of Pearl Harbor because who knows what worse things Japan might do to us. We have to fight back before we lose any more.

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Operation downfall could have caused even more trauma and comotion for Japan if America went thru with it.

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I think the bombing was justified. It showed the Japanese the power the US has, and got them to surrender. It is horrible that it killed innocent civilians, but it did end the war. And if the war would have continued, innocent civilian lives probably would have been lost anyway.

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I think the operation was not a good idea because many of the civilians were armed and would cause many deaths

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I think that Iowa Jima was justifiable, the U.S did what they felt was right to finally end the war, without killing innocent people, but I don't believe that this justified the use of the atomic bombs

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There is no point in dropping another bomb on Japan if they already felt defeated.

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This was a better Plan since it didnt involve much more violence and death for both countrys.

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I think this was kinda justified, Japan did surprise attack Pearl Harbor and killed innocent civilians.

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Dropping two bombs on japan even though they were already defeated was cruel. They were just killing more innocent people.

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Japan was planning an attack that would have been the largest amphibious attack in human history. So why would the US dropping a bomb on them be wrong?

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Iwo jima more reasonable then the other bombs. In this case they wanted to invade japan and not kill innocent.

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Dropping a second bomb was to make sure Japan knew that the first bomb wasn't the only power we have. We didn't shoot our last bullet with the first bomb.

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I think that Iowa Jima was justifiable, the U.S did what they felt was right to finally put a stop the war, I don't know if it justified the use of atomic bombs tho.

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I think it wasn't a good idea for us to execute Operation Downfall because Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing already did enough

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Although the Japanese military took so many lives of other people, the Japanese who weren't involved with the war did not deserve what they have to go through.

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I'd say Iwo Jima is more justifiable than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings since it didn't involve that many innocent people.