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.
<span>This is of course somewhat of a subjective question, but in general most would agree that the Great Depression had a greater impact, since many of the New Deal programs that went into effect as a result of the depressions play a major role in our lives today. </span>
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I think some of the challenges facing those restoring the Hagia Sophia church in Turkey are the following.
First, the budget needed to continually restorative the impressive building. Next, the qualified persons to do it. They need specialists in engineering and art to do the kind of conservation needed.
For a monumental structure like Haga Sophia, it is required to have a high budget to do permanent maintenance works as a preventive measure, as well as to correct the problems caused by the pass of time such as erosion, cracks in the walls, humidity.
A) The act forcibly relocated eastern American Indians to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River
I can't really explain it, that's just what the treaty stated.
Federal, state, and local governments.
