Transcript Hiroshima dilemma

Pick up the handout .
Look over the grammar review notes.
Try to complete the “Class Practice and
Examples.”
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Remind me!!
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Complete Day 2
You have two minutes after the bell.
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Don’t be shy!
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If you are wandering, someone else is too!
What should we review?
What are the arguments?
• The bomb saved American lives.
• Hastened the end of the war
• Precluded the need for U.S. ground troops
(no invasion)
• Without the bomb, Japan never would have
surrendered.
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M • President Truman inherited President Roosevelt’s
war policies and strategy, which included the
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bombing of cities (civilians).
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T • The great cost of the Manhattan Project (the
highly secretive research campaign which
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developed the bomb) necessitated the bomb’s use.
• Japanese citizens were given ample warning.
• Potsdam Declaration
• Leaflets (65 million on 35 Japanese cities)
• Japanese forces had exercised acts of barbarism
on Allied Forces.
A • The bomb was made for defense only– not used in
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any war following WWII
G • Use of the bomb was illegal– League of Nations,
U
WMD, used on civilians
M • Use of the bomb was racially motivated
E
• propaganda comparable to Nazi anti-Semitism
N
• hatred of political regimes vs. hatred of an
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entire race
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• Japanese remains as souvenirs
• Internment camps
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G • There were alternatives
Life magazine
• Demonstration of the bomb
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May 22, 1944
• Wait for the USSR to join the fight
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• Let the Japanese keep their emperor –modify
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the unconditional surrender
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• Continue conventional bombing
A • The use of the bomb in Japan was to make Russia
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more manageable post-war
G • Truman was unqualified for the power,
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uninformed about the bomb, and/or racist
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• The atomic bomb was inhumane
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Civilians
with
no
democratic
voice
to
oppose
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the militarist government
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• Radiation
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A
G
A
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• Victims maimed
• Cancer
• Birth defects
1946
• Ostracism
• Psychological scarring
• Awakening of horror:
1973-4
2007
Hiroshima survivor Sumiteru Taniguchi
Hiroshima survivor Sumiteru Taniguchi in 2004
Take notes and annotate your book!
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Dialectical Journal
You have two survivors.