https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz Morality of Bombing en-us 2018-01-26 16:01:30 UTC 2018-02-13 13:42:35 UTC hello@padlet.com 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/225614151 The Allied High Command tried to break the moral of German civilians and destroy their will to continue fighting.]]> 2018-01-29 13:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/225614151 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/225628225 The Allies employed several types of bombing strategies during the war.]]> 2018-01-29 14:17:53 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/225628225 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/225629360 Prominent examples are, the Bombing of Dresden and the Bombings of Tokyo.]]> 2018-01-29 14:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/225629360 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/225945461 - March, 1945, bombing of Tokyo.
-  Bombing of Dresden
- Bombing of Hamburg]]> 2018-01-30 06:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/225945461 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/225945663 - Blitz/Blitzkrieg
- Bombing of Warsaw/Invasion of Poland.
- Battle of Britain and the London Blitz.]]> 2018-01-30 06:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/225945663 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/225945831 Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
6 August, 1945, and 9 August 1945. 
Estimated Casualties (Combined): 118,000 killed, minimum.
78,000 Hiroshima, 40,000 Nagasaki. --> Mostly civilian casualties, however, there were both military and industrial/economic targets in both citiies.

]]> 2018-01-30 06:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/225945831 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226904345 How and why can/do people justify the bombing of civilians while questioning the morality of the use of the atomic bombs?

How do people justify the bombings of civilians and non-military targets during war?

]]> 2018-02-01 06:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226904345 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226907263 2018-02-01 06:40:04 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226907263 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226907303 2018-02-01 06:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226907303 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226908245 Early in the war, the USAAF used precision bombing to accurately destroy important German military and economic targets.]]> 2018-02-01 06:46:32 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226908245 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226908520 Later in the war, starting in late 1943, the USAAF began switching to large scale bombardments, regardless of German civilian casualties.]]> 2018-02-01 06:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226908520 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226909191 As the war progressed, Allied commanders believed the best way to hasten Germany's loss, would be to target civilians.]]> 2018-02-01 06:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226909191 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226909385 The strategy became highly divisive and split the command structure, as depicted in Ronald Schaffer's book, American Military Ethics in World War II: The Bombing of Civilians.

]]> 2018-02-01 06:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226909385 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226909695 Many generals believed targeting civilians was a poor allocation of resources while others rejected the strategy on moral ground.]]> 2018-02-01 06:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226909695 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226909938 American pre-war Air Force doctrines focused on precision bombing, and the official stance of the air force was against bombing civilians.]]> 2018-02-01 06:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226909938 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226910128 Additionally, large portions of the civilian population were against civilian bombings. They believed it immoral. Many Americans also held little to no animosity towards Germans.]]> 2018-02-01 07:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226910128 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226910348 One such general was General Ira Eaker, one of the commanders of the Eighth U.S Air Force. It was his belief that military resources could be better used elsewhere. Like many others, he had no moral problem]]> 2018-02-01 07:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226910348 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226911004 Some generals, like James Dootlittle, opposed the strategy as he believed it would give the Germans an excuse towards brutality and lower America to the level of the Nazi's.]]> 2018-02-01 07:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226911004 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226911360 The tactic "officially" was against bombing civilians. However, in reality bombers aimed at civilians, and the air force hoped to shatter German morale and their ability and will to wage war.]]> 2018-02-01 07:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226911360 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226911828 Similar to morale bombing, the dropping of the atomic bombs was/is a highly ]]> 2018-02-01 07:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226911828 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226912050 Support for the dropping of the bombs and those who deem the bombings justified is dropping. It went from 61% in 1991 to 54% in 2015. While a low drop it shows how many Americans question the morality of dropping the bombs.]]> 2018-02-01 07:13:18 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226912050 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226912699 This information is supported by polls from the PewResearch Center. They also show how support have gone down from 85% in 1945 to 57% in 2005, a large drop.]]> 2018-02-01 07:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226912699 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226913086 What makes the topic interesting is people criticize the atomic bombs for killing 100,000 to 300,000 civilians, which is a lot. However, people completely bypass the fire bombings of Tokyo which left most of the city homeless and 100,000 dead.]]> 2018-02-01 07:18:50 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226913086 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226913567 Had the U.S not dropped the atomic bombs than a U.S invasion of Japan would have commenced later in 1945. Japanese resistance was expected to be in the high millions. The morality behind dropping the A-bombs was, kill a lot of people in the present to save a lot of people in the future.]]> 2018-02-01 07:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/226913567 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/227032617 U.S and British Bombing of Dresden, February 13-15, 1945. High civilian casualties, 35,000-45,000 killed.]]> 2018-02-01 13:59:56 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/227032617 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/227037330 Bombing of Hamburg, July 27, 1943. Much of the city destroyed. 45,000 civilians killed.]]> 2018-02-01 14:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/227037330 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/227038274 3,300 tons of bombs dropped. Many were incendiaries.]]> 2018-02-01 14:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/227038274 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/227042846 These bombings caused a negative backlash amongst the citizens of the Allied powers.]]> 2018-02-01 14:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/227042846 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/227044720 Estimated by the end of the war, 1.5 million civilians had been killed from bombings. 2 million wounded, and 16 million became homeless.

Source: Place Annihilation: Area Bombing and the Fate of Urban Places]]> 2018-02-01 14:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/227044720 20kraemerj https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/227046494 The purpose was to destroy the German military and economy, thus, they would have no means to continually waging the war.]]> 2018-02-01 14:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/20kraemerj/xmu4z7qjg8oz/wish/227046494