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Was president Truman really saving lives by ending World War 2 in the atomic bomb?
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In fact he did. He stated that the bomb would bring the war to end sooner and a lot of lives will be saved.
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What did Harry S. Truman did important?
Harry S Truman was president first off and isn't that really important? He changed the world. He got Japan to surrender when he brought bombs, he served in the army (captain), and he believed in civil rights. But I probably didn't mention ALL the great things that he did that was important. Not even close to all, but at least you have some info.
Did president Truman make the correct decision in dropping the atomic bomb?
I don't think anyone can accurately answer. On the surface, it did appear to save American lives but no one has closely studied cost of lives via collateral damage from the radiation, so we don't really know if it cost more or less lives and American or Japanese doesn't really make a difference
What was the Korean police action?
President Truman was under pressure to use nuclear weapons to "win the war" in Korea. He couldn't use nukes because that might cause WW3; the Soviets had the atomic bomb by 1949...Korea began in 1950. To pacify the generals he used that term...to let them know that this was not really a war...therefore we don't need to use nuclear weapons. In reality, it was history's first LIMITED WAR, but Truman nor his generals knew that at the time; the atomic age was only 5 years old in 1950 (the atomic age was born when the first atomic weapons were detonated in 1945) and they had to learn how to fight wars in an era of nuclear weapons. Nor did they know that ANOTHER "Limited War" would be fought in Asia a decade later (Vietnam).
Who came up with the idea to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
At the end of World War II, few questioned Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans accepted the obvious reasoning: the atomic bombings brought the war to a more timely end. They did not have a problem with over one hundred thousand of the enemy being killed. After all, the Japanese attacked America, and not the other way around. In later years, however, many have begun to question the conventional wisdom of "Truman was saving lives," putting forth theories of their own. However, when one examines the issue with great attention to the results of the atomic bombings and compares these results with possible alternatives to using said bombs, the line between truth and fiction begins to clear. Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan was for the purpose of saving lives and ending the war quickly in order to prevent a disastrous land invasion.
In what ways was Harry Truman unprepared for the presidency?
Truman didn't graduate college (not enough funds to continue). He was vice president during WWII and after 82 days FDR died, leaving him unprepared to handle it. He was handed a really big stick: the atomic bomb; and thrust into a war between Japan and the US, scared and unsure of himself, he chose to drop a bomb on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, when Japan was debilitated and incapable of assault. He engaged the US in a premature Cold War by provoking bad relations with the Soviet Union, and trying to use the same power that Franklin Roosevelt had.
If President Franklin D. Roosevelt had not died would he have been a better President than Harry Truman?
# He was a better president probably of all time. # FDR served 3 terms as president-- more than any other US president-- so the conditional clause in the question ('if...died') in the question is really unnecessary to judge the merits of Roosevelt's presidency.
Why is it ignored that President Harry S. Truman was a member of the Ku Klux Klan?
There were actually five presidents that were reportedly KKK members. President Warren G. Harding, President Woodrow Wilson, President McKinley, President Calvin Coolidge, and President Harry S. Truman. (It should be noted that historians at the Coolidge Presidential Library vehemently deny that he was ever a member; and the evidence about Harding is mainly based on rumor and innuendo, rather than documentable facts.) The story in the case of Harry Truman, he was not really a very active member. He originally saw them as a patriotic organization, which was often how the Klan advertised themselves. Truman had a falling out with the Klan when he was confronted with their actual views; he openly spoke out against the group, and had death threats made against him for doing so. Truman's family denies he was ever a member, although the Klan has presented paperwork. There are many that feel the paperwork was falsified. I am thinking that it is not so much that it is ignored, but since it is not a concrete fact, it remains little known.
What started and ended ww11?
That really depends on your nationality but it is generally accepted that it started with the German invasion of Poland on September 1st 1939 and ended with the atomic bombing of Japan and their surrender in August 1945.
Why did the united state and the soviet union became enemies after world war 2?
The two countries were never really friends in the first place. They became necessary allies in the fight against Nazi Germany.
Why didn't the US drop atomic bombs in Vietnam in 1950?
Honestly up through 1950 or 1951 the US had no serious capability to deliver atomic bombs anywhere (even though Truman's official policy was that all future wars would be fought entirely using atomic bombs). Truman's post WW2 efforts to balance the Federal budget had inadvertently severely crippled the Air Force and they did not really recover until the beginning of the Korean War in 1952 caused military budget increases. Also France controlled Vietnam in 1950 and it was not considered an area of US interest.
What presidents ordered military action against communism?
President's Wilson (Allied intervention in Russia), Truman (Korea), Kennedy (Vietnam, Cuba), Johnson (Vietnam), Nixon (Vietnam), Ford (Mayaguez incident), and Reagan (Grenada). If one considers the U-2 incident to be a military action, you could include President Eisenhower.
Is there really an ending to numbers?
no
