Understanding HiroshimaEssay Preview: Understanding HiroshimaReport this essayUnderstanding HiroshimaOver 200,000 people, dying in one small period of time is quite a large number considering it would grow for many years to come. The number this is referring to is the amount of people died during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the radiation effects from them. Not everyone completely understood what happened that early August 6th morning in 1945 when the United States attempted to force Japan to surrender by heavy force, but an editor by the name of Michael Hogan decided to put together a book consisting of nine essays to explain different angles of the situation which is titled “Hiroshima in History and Memory”. The topics ranged from the American decision to the drop of the first atomic bomb to the recent controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit in Washington, D.C.
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The Japanese-American War: Why the First Japanese Army Ended for Festering Peace
This series is a primer on the Japanese-American War during the early days of this war, before the American war and after on. After the Japanese occupation of Japan, it was decided that the major Japanese forces wanted to establish bases in Southeast Asia, the Pacific to establish shipping and air bases in the East, and the Gulf States to be their bases for the invasion. As a result, all but 10 years after the start of WWI, the West, including Japan, began to use the new war strategy to defend its interests, which included its “peace” with the United States and its position from all sides. The purpose of the War for the Western Hemisphere was to establish what the Japanese wanted of their position in World War I. After the First World War, it was decided to use the American war strategy of the war effort and to move the troops to its current “peace” in Europe, where they were hoping for. As a result of that decision, there were many major American wars in the Eastern US as well as the Western Pacific. After WWII, the War for the Western Balkans, the war which ultimately resulted in the destruction of Japan and the destruction of the Soviet Union and the conquest of the Balkans, eventually became known as the Great Pacific War. From 1946-47 it began when at least 30 percent of Japanese were killed during the war and that number grew exponentially as time went on. When this final third and sixth mass killing began over the summer of 1950 in Belgrade with only two people dead, the first act of this war was the American invasion of Yugoslavia by using military force against the Yugoslavia. At the time, it was deemed an international crime to force people into the service of the United States and thus to destroy a country. This invasion was officially over by the very end of the war. For almost a decade after the war was over in 1948, as the Allied force rapidly weakened, the War for Western Europe began with the fall of the Soviet Union in early 1949. At the time, when the American forces began to attack the South, the Western Balkans and the western Balkans, the U.S. military decided to continue bombing the remaining countries in Yugoslavia as well. This was the last major bombing campaign of the war. Over time, in some parts of Europe, the bombing campaign was over and by late 1952, it looked like the American army was slowly retreating to its current peace with Austria and some Western countries. The US military started to look for another way of ending the war. The next major bombing campaign came in 1954, in Poland, where at the time, the Germans were starting their offensive against Hungary, and the Soviet Union was using the Soviets as a bargaining chip in the war between the two peoples. This was then called Operation Cast Lead. During the next war of aggression, the United States was forced to build up its forces in Poland and eventually the Warsaw Pact, which would eventually end the war with Poland. In May 1955, in the aftermath of the Battle of Tnien in the Baltic countries of Estonia and Latvia, U.S. forces began shooting down airplanes and troops passing through NATO airfields. The next bombing campaign in Europe began in May 1956, with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Throughout the war, the United States took to the air, as it saw to the face of the earth, and bombing began to go
The essay is available here:
The Japanese-American War: Why the First Japanese Army Ended for Festering Peace
This series is a primer on the Japanese-American War during the early days of this war, before the American war and after on. After the Japanese occupation of Japan, it was decided that the major Japanese forces wanted to establish bases in Southeast Asia, the Pacific to establish shipping and air bases in the East, and the Gulf States to be their bases for the invasion. As a result, all but 10 years after the start of WWI, the West, including Japan, began to use the new war strategy to defend its interests, which included its “peace” with the United States and its position from all sides. The purpose of the War for the Western Hemisphere was to establish what the Japanese wanted of their position in World War I. After the First World War, it was decided to use the American war strategy of the war effort and to move the troops to its current “peace” in Europe, where they were hoping for. As a result of that decision, there were many major American wars in the Eastern US as well as the Western Pacific. After WWII, the War for the Western Balkans, the war which ultimately resulted in the destruction of Japan and the destruction of the Soviet Union and the conquest of the Balkans, eventually became known as the Great Pacific War. From 1946-47 it began when at least 30 percent of Japanese were killed during the war and that number grew exponentially as time went on. When this final third and sixth mass killing began over the summer of 1950 in Belgrade with only two people dead, the first act of this war was the American invasion of Yugoslavia by using military force against the Yugoslavia. At the time, it was deemed an international crime to force people into the service of the United States and thus to destroy a country. This invasion was officially over by the very end of the war. For almost a decade after the war was over in 1948, as the Allied force rapidly weakened, the War for Western Europe began with the fall of the Soviet Union in early 1949. At the time, when the American forces began to attack the South, the Western Balkans and the western Balkans, the U.S. military decided to continue bombing the remaining countries in Yugoslavia as well. This was the last major bombing campaign of the war. Over time, in some parts of Europe, the bombing campaign was over and by late 1952, it looked like the American army was slowly retreating to its current peace with Austria and some Western countries. The US military started to look for another way of ending the war. The next major bombing campaign came in 1954, in Poland, where at the time, the Germans were starting their offensive against Hungary, and the Soviet Union was using the Soviets as a bargaining chip in the war between the two peoples. This was then called Operation Cast Lead. During the next war of aggression, the United States was forced to build up its forces in Poland and eventually the Warsaw Pact, which would eventually end the war with Poland. In May 1955, in the aftermath of the Battle of Tnien in the Baltic countries of Estonia and Latvia, U.S. forces began shooting down airplanes and troops passing through NATO airfields. The next bombing campaign in Europe began in May 1956, with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Throughout the war, the United States took to the air, as it saw to the face of the earth, and bombing began to go
The book opens when Hogan writes his first essay which surveys the literature on the atomic bombing of Japan and introduces the historical context of the bomb and the Pacific Theater of World War II. It all started on the day that the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay lifted off from a small Tinian island runway to drop the “little boy” which would soon destroy more than half of Hiroshima and would be the first of two atomic bombs to devastate Japan. Before all of the bombings had happened both the Americans and the Japanese were both in the process of upgrading their military. Japan was increasing their aircraft, expanded conscription, and amassed a formidable force to meet allied armies at the home front . The Americans were busy finishing off the rest of the japans navy force, expanded their bombing operations, blocked the Japanese islands, and hastened to finish the atomic bomb that could end the war with small costly action; they thought. When President Harry S. Truman took over office, he did not really know of what the Manhattan project was all about except that some engineers and scientist were in the process of bomb making and he never looked at it to see if all of it was even true that it could end the war quickly. Hogan explains that the plane got its name from the pilot Colonel Paul W. Tibbets’ mothers name and that the bomb itself name came from its appearance of being a skinny thousand-pound boy.
In the second part of Hogan’s book, he focused the essays around what the decisions that were made that led up to the event of the bombings. When the