Japan bombed Pearl Harbour first,do u think were the Americans justified to take revenge?
2007-04-27 06:23:37 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Let me actually help you with your homework. Your teacher probably doesn't care which side you pick. You will only need to cite reasons for your answer. If you say that the United States was justified, you should cite something like the enourmous toll it would take on U.S. troops to invade Japan if necessary. The bomb saved American lives.
If you decide that it was not justified, you could say that the Japanese were close to surrendering anyway, that innocent civilians were killed, or that the using the bomb would encourage more development.
2007-04-27 06:31:38 · answer #1 · answered by whervel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dropping the A-bombs on Japan was not about revenge. It was done in the hopes that Japan would surrender and the US would not have to invade and lose hundreds of thousands of troops in the process. The Japanese were training every man, woman and child that could to fight against the invaders when the time came. Such an invasion would have decimated the Japanese population far beyond what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
2016-05-20 15:03:19 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just don't see how the war would have ended without the atomic bomb. And quite honestly, the US didn't have many other options. The Japanese leaders at the time were INSANE. Emperor Hirohito said was God. He called WWII a holy war they would fight for generations. And they didn't seem to have any trouble getting young men to sign up as Suicide Bombers (Kamikazes).
I don't believe they were "about to give up" like other people are saying. And even if they did give up... it would most likely would not have been an Unconditional Surrender which included Hirohito admitting that he was not God. Without that, I think it's likely there would have been another war with Japan a few years later.
2007-04-27 07:24:49 · answer #3 · answered by NASA C 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Presumably this is an opinion question, there is no "right" answer (although everyone will think theirs is correct).
IMHO, the first bomb WAS justified. However, I think we should have given Japan more time to assess the affect of the bomb. I suspect if we had, and definitely let them know there were more where that came from, the second one would not have been necessary. Remember, they had their own program going on as well ... they had nuclear scientists who could assess the situation.
2007-04-27 06:32:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The revenge for Pearl Harbor was Doolittle's raid on Japan the following year.
The atomic bomb was used to convince Japan to surrender without having to invade the main island of Japan.
The atomic bomb was also used to position the US as the supreme military power post WW2.
2007-04-27 06:28:25 · answer #5 · answered by Fester Frump 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We were not taking revenge. Read a little on history. Japan started it we got a new bomb. It saved hundreds of thousands American lives by ending the war sooner. If your Grandpa was a WWII vet. You might not be here if we did not drop the bomb on Japan.
2007-04-27 06:30:21 · answer #6 · answered by bill a 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
revenge- woudn't that be joining the war?
weused the atom bomb as a threat "end the war or we'll atom bomb your cities" japan didn't stop, so we bombed.
personally i dont think anyone should use any kind of nulear/atomic weapon, because the damage is so much more than a regular explosive (radition levels are still abnormal, and many more people died from lukemia, etc.)
i'm not exactly an expert on the war, tho.
2007-04-27 06:27:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who ever planted the term "revenge" in your head doesn't understand human conflict. It would have been revenge had there been no war and we simply retaliated. It was justified to end a grusome war as quickly and humanely as possible.
Now, I know you "anti-nuke, anti-war" freaks out there will scoff at the term "humane," but we'd firebombed Tokyo the week before and killed hundreds of thousands in a firestorm. Compared to what else was going on in the world at the time, a mushroom cloud wasn't such a bad thing. Hundreds of thousands more would have died in Japan and other nations if we continued to fight in a "nice" way, like what we're doing in Iraq right now.
2007-04-27 06:29:47 · answer #8 · answered by wizbangs 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Americans were justified for dropping the bombs as it most likely saved 100,000 American lives which would have been lost if they had to invade Japan to end the war.
2007-04-27 06:27:15 · answer #9 · answered by DOC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't revenge. The Japanese tried to cheap shot us while we were busy with the Germans. We didn't have the resources to waste fighting back Japan, since there were much bigger things going on like trying to save the world. It delivered the message loud and clear to Japan that they seriously underestimated the US, and immediately got them off our backs. We also helped rebuild them when we were done.
Today we are best of friends with Japan, and we would fight to the death to protect them as well should something go wrong over there.
2007-04-27 06:31:51 · answer #10 · answered by Joker 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋