The main interest that interest groups and political action committees (PACs) share is that they try to get certain candidates or political platforms more attention, in order to advance whatever economic or social agenda they're pushing.
the senate represents the entires state
President Truman's reasoning behind bombing the cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was to ultimately end the devasting war. He wanted to put an end to the agony that it had cause.
I do not agree with the decision to drop an atomic bomb on two (very populated) cities, however, it was not my decision to make, and was far before my time.
The atomic bombs "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" resulted in approximately 105,000 fatalities, and 95,000 causalities.
There were four other alternatives to dropping the atomic bombs:
- Offer the Japanese conditional surrender by lifting some of the terms
- Wait for the Soviets to attack Mancharia and Korea (which were occupies by the Japanese)
- Naval blockade
- Invade the Japanese "home" islands
Unconditional surrender was <u>discussed</u> during the Casablanca Conference in 1943, and the US <u>demanded</u> for unconditional surrender in the Potsdam Declaration in 1945.
The congressional districts were redrawn to establish safe seats for the political parties. Before the Reapportionment Act of 1929, the Republicans tried to take over the presidency and both houses of Congress, so that rule would be solely through the Republicans and that no Democrat would have any say over how to govern America. Obviously, this was a very dangerous move and therefore the Reapportionment Act of 1929 had to be passed so that the state legislature would draw the district lines.
