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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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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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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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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 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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It's just awful reasoning for the deaths of over 100,000 people in 4 days within a second. Japan was only on war but America with atom bombs went for total war and killed no one knows how many innocents.

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They used the atomic bomb to destroy Japanese cities which ended up killing many innocent civilians. The reason for doing this was to gain Japan's surrender in order to eliminate them from becoming a powerful enemy. Killing this many people for superiority just simply is not enough to justify the actions as rational meaning they could have taken a more peaceful approach.

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America caused Japan the future for a past war (People born near the atomic bomb explosion always are born with some sort of disability) which literally destroyed a hundred years of future since the attack on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

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it wasn't justified to drop 2 bombs on japan killing up to 120000 wen we could have fought using other means -

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it wasn't justified we didn't start anything with japan but they wanned our land so they attacked

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Why not just kill the government or leader rather than killing those who had no idea? The reasonings are just them trying to prove why killing 100,000+ innocents and going on a total war was a right thing to do.

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I think it wasn't a justified reason to drop 2 atomic bombs, because the U.S was killing many civilians who didn't need to die just so Japan could surrender. There could've been another way to do this. -Ashly P.

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I think it wasn't a justified reason to drop 2 atomic bombs, because the U.S was killing many civilians who didn't need to die just so Japan could surrender. There could've been another way to do this. -Ashly P.

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While they did cause more lives to be ended, the japanese had striked first for no reason, therefore it is there fault to begin with. had Japan not tried to weaken our naval forces, then we wouldn't have dropped a bomb on them in the first place. But they still went along with it and were not aware of the consequences this would bring, so the U.S bombing on them in this case is justifiable for revenge.

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The President under the Hiroshima and Nagasaki's control probably had personal reasoning that even after a denial from experienced Politicians he still managed to did what he wanted.

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there were more ways to go around the problemen without killing so many but both sides wanted to fight

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I do not think that it was justified to drop two atomic bombs so close together before really seeing ho badly it affected the Japanese. The U.S killed many innocent civilians and changed the lives of everyone in Japan forever. I believe that the United States should have taken a more peaceful approach.

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In this situation it is justified why America attacked back. Japan attacked in surprise with no reason mentioned, it was a surprise so the U.S striking back was a hit of revenge.

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the U.S were killing a whole bunch of civilians. just so that the japanese could get the idea of surrendering .Even thought they wouldn't -Celeste  

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the U.S were killing a whole bunch of civilians. just so that the japanese could get the idea of surrendering .Even thought they wouldn't -Celeste  

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the us gave the japanese no time to process what happened killing more people than they needed to

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No military will ever tell their soldiers to surrender to an enemy or tell positive things about the enemy that will allow the soldier to give up and provide them with everything they know. So this would still be claimed as an unnecessary and ruthless attack in the history of the Human's civilization.

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I feel like them dropping the two bombs was wrong because so many people were killed even if they were loyal to the people that they loved it just didn't make sense to kill them with those 2 bombs.

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the japanese just wanted to take the U.S land.-Celeste 

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the japanese just wanted to take the U.S land.-Celeste 

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In this case, the U.S had planned an attack on a Japan island, but this did not happen due to the casualties it would cause. We had become wise as more and more casualties were discovered which proves innocence among our forces. Doing this wouldn't be reasonable for the damage it might have caused to both ends of the fight.

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The atomic bombing of Japan was justified and most definitely needed. They justified the bombs to make it a more rapid victory and to prevent the deaths of more Americans. However, this was probably not the smartest choice in the aspect of tons of civilians being killed innocently.

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It is very justified here because at first America is finally minding there own business and not really doing much but Japan started something that they knew they couldn't really finish it even if they tried

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This is not justified, both countries made mistakes. Japan attacked us solely because they wanted our land and ended up killing many innocent civilians, they should have issued a declaration of war and left the civilians out of it as much as possible. Although the Japanese attacked us first, we should not have dropped any atomic bombs because it killed and affected a lot of innocent civilians and changed the lives of everyone in Japan forever.

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The Pearl Harbor attack was justified because Japan attacked in surprise while the U.S wasn't aware or prepared for the battle so to get back they attacked as well.

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The U.S. planned on attacking the japanese but it never happened. Due to the casualties it would have cause. -Celeste

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The U.S. planned on attacking the japanese but it never happened. Due to the casualties it would have cause. -Celeste

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The U.S. never gave the japanese time to do anything . it was all a mess with mass killings .-celeste

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The U.S. never gave the japanese time to do anything . it was all a mess with mass killings .-celeste

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they did not want to give up due to propaganda of what the us would do to them so they commit suicide to save themselves but that also led to more deaths than needed

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This wouldn't have been a good idea because even though planning this, it would have started a whole different thing and kind of pushed the war more then it needed to go.

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no military will surrender to the enemies  . If anything they will want to kill more and more people . -celeste

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no military will surrender to the enemies  . If anything they will want to kill more and more people . -celeste

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This is not justified because although it never happened, the U.S was clearly planning on killing a lot of Japanese civilians whether they were part of the war or not. In my mind, the war should not intentionally end the lives of any innocent people no matter what.

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The drops of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified and necessary, because Operation Downfall would not have been as effective due to Japan's geography. Though justifiable in reason, it was not justifiable that the U.S dropped the bombs 3 days apart.

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I feel like the U.S. didn't take all of the causes on what would happen with the bombs they just wanted to finish it even if that meant killing people that didn't really need to be killed.

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It can be seen that the United States had air control from all the air forces they had, if this was making Japan surrender the atomic bomb was unnecessary.

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Dwight Eisenhower said that the bomb was unnecessary and it was not solely for protecting American lives anymore. Americans were not in immediate danger at the time and the U.S should not have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan.

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Dwight Eisenhower was very skeptical about the outcomes doing this attack would bring so he thought the better solutions was to not attack. This was very necessary because of how many lives it saved, meaning I would consider it justifiable.

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Pearl Harbor is a justification for the United States use of Atomic Bombs. Japan attacked the U.S without a warning or motive. Thus, for the reasoning of several Americans being killed and wounded, and the damage of American destroyers and cruisers, of course the U.S is going to fight back for the devastation that was caused.
-Julissa S

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As a means for what Japan had done to Pearl Harbor, that dropping of the atomic bombs in Japan is justifiable because while Japan was expecting an attack from the Allies, The U.S had never seen the surprise attack.

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The U.S were in the wrong for dropping two atomic bombs on Japan killing to around 129,000 and 226,00 people, most of whom were civilians. The U.S definitely took the wrong approach and could have done a lot better.

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It seems to be that there was a president who had a specific reason in why he knew there was no necessity to attack since japan was going to surrrender.

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Not a lot of people would bow to the enemy even if it was the easy way out but it shows that Japan were so scared of the U.S. that they didn't even want to live through it, which gives you what people in Japan told them about the U.S. without knowing them.

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I wonder why the little boy killed more people but was called little and fat man killed less people but was called fat man

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There are many other ways to go about solving an issue. I think this wasn't justified because many people died because of it.

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When the US commenced an attack, the use of propaganda here was in the hands of the Japanese in order to make their soldiers encouraged to fight and not surrender to them. I don't feel that the US had rightful reasoning here simply for the downfalls it caused towards both nations.

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Kinda justified, although the bombing was tragic for japan, its important to acknowledge that it could've been a lot worse for the US had they not done what they did. Japan killed American Civilians and America simply returned the gesture.

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Japanese citizens were so afraid of the U.S that they decided to end their lives in order to avoid the acts of the U.S. These measures were extreme and showed that the U.S was taking things to far and were unjustified with their acts.

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I feel the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unnecessary the americans claim to be saving peoples lives but in the end kill more people and cause long term issues and suffering to innocent people.

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It was a surprise attack on Hawaii, to Americans this shows the Japanese wanted to start a war. After Pearl Harbor racism grew targeted towards Japanese Americans. These Japanese Americans were sent to camps and were mistreated horribly.

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They should have dealt with the situation in a way that wouldn't lead to so much death and casualties.

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The US didn't warn Japan or give Japanese warnings or signs. The Japanese didn't have time to do anything or act in any way.

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The Japanese were afraid Americans are going to do what they did to other people for example the R*pe of Nanjing.

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I think there were several other ways to make Japan surrender. Many innocent people were killed by not only one atomic bomb, but two. Also, we did not even give them time to react in between both.
Julissa S

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This is not justified, the United States motive was to kill several thousand people. They should have dealt with this in another way that wouldn't have affected people for years.
Julissa S

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The U.S did not give Japan a chance to prepare or react, also they did not give Japan time to react between both bombs. The president knew that this wasn't the correct way to deal with this.
Julissa S

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The Japanese feared for their lives if they didn't surrender. They did not know what the U.S would do to them, so this led to many suicides. Therefore, it was still not justified because regardless many lives were lost.
Julissa S

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The Atomic Bomb that was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, was necessary! It was to impact the first-ever nation for the Northwest Territories from trying to kill so many people to justify their actions. Could've thought of a more peaceful approach towards them.

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From everything that was happening in Southeast Asia from them planning the military actions, it was to prevent the United States from taking forward the action.

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All though it was canceled when Japan Surrendered from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But, along with the allied plan that was the invasion of Japanese home islands that was near the end of World War II.