WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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dropping it on the capital Tokyo
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dropping it on the largest city
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dropping it somewhere as a demonstration to try and get Japan to surrender
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dropping it on Japanese troops in China.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Truman did not seek to destroy Japanese culture or people; the goal was to destroy Japan’s ability to make war. So, on the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the world’s first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima.
Detailed explanation-2: -The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was justified at the time as being moral – in order to bring about a more rapid victory and prevent the deaths of more Americans. However, it was clearly not moral to use this weapon knowing that it would kill civilians and destroy the urban milieu.
Detailed explanation-3: -President Truman was threatened looking at Japan increasing power in world. He believed that to end war its important to halt Japan’s power, so it dropped atomic bomb on Japan to shorten or end war and to save United states people from wrath of war.
Detailed explanation-4: -Although the war in Europe ended in May 1945, Stimson advised Truman that the bomb might be useful in intimidating Soviet leader Joseph Stalin into curtailing post-war communist expansion into Eastern Europe.