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The Atomic Bomb And Hiroshima
Number of Words: 2538 / Number of Pages: 10
... by a top-secret operation code named the Manhattan Project. Three weeks after the first test of the atomic bomb President Truman made the decision at a war time conference, in Potsdam Germany, to use the atomic bomb on Japan. The first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 destroying the city and killing and estimated total of 70,000 noncombatants. Three days following the Hiroshima bombing another atomic bomb, nicknamed “Fat Man”, was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. Following these bombings the Soviet Union launched massive air attacks on the islands of Japan. The devastating powe ...
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The Atomic Bomb
Number of Words: 543 / Number of Pages: 2
... Massive destruction, immense loss of life, and prolonging of the war
until late 1946, as stated in document A, would result from invading on foot
instead of using the bomb.
Revenge also played a role in the decision to bomb Japan. The Japanese
were not following the Geneva convention in regards to treatment of prisoners of
war. Which says that the prisoners are not to be put through torture of the
psychological or physical nature. The Japanese did these things anyway, they
would decapitate American prisoners, or they would shove bamboo shoots under
their fingernails. The American government a ...
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American Exceptionalism; The P
Number of Words: 898 / Number of Pages: 4
... separating people from the government. The goal of the authors of the constitution was to create a system of government that existed in complete political deadlock because it never allowed any part of the system to be unified.
Geological characteristics also help to fragment the nation. The U.S. is one of the largest nations in the world. As the country was being formed, the availability of land made it possible for almost anyone who was not comfortable where they were, to pick up and move. This encouraged extreme diversity as people could operate in relative isolation from each other. " ...
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Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombing
Number of Words: 1713 / Number of Pages: 7
... or, indeed, the global environment. Many issues have been unresolved and have created a debate on the proliferation and use of the nuclear arms as a result of this. Hiroshima marks a powerful psychological turning point in our attitude toward our own science and technology, because it not only exceeded all previous limits in destruction but had, in effect, declared that there were no limits to destruction.
On December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. Taking the Americans by surprise 19 ships were sunk and about 2,400 American soldiers and sailors were killed. ...
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Roswell
Number of Words: 1911 / Number of Pages: 7
... from this world and that they must alert the Pentagon. The Pentagon already knew by this time what was happening in , and General Clemence McMullen told Army Air Field that they must cover up the whole story.
Thus the government of the United States decided to lie to its citizens. Extraterrestrials exist and have visited our planet. The United States government as well as many other worldwide governments have proof of UFO existence but are afraid to release this information to the general public. It is up to the general public to examine the evidence and decide whether UFO’s exist. If the governmen ...
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Federalist Party
Number of Words: 1533 / Number of Pages: 6
... problem was that of raising money. At first the Congress adopted a small tariff on imports. This was a start but not nearly enough. The government needed this money to maintain its own existence and to be able to pay of the debt. The existence of the government was a necessity, but there was a lot of discussion as to whether the debt should be payed off.
The mare magnitude of the debt seemed to compel some measure of avoidance. In 1789, the national debt totaled more than $50 million, $11,700,000 of which was owed to France and Spain and the private bankers of Netherlands, while $40 million was in t ...
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Earthquakes, Armageddon, And The Dead Sea Scrolls
Number of Words: 524 / Number of Pages: 2
... The professor then went on to talk about Armageddon or Megiddo. He explained that this is an actual place in Northern Israel and future battle of the Apocalypse as stated in the book of Revelations. He also indicated that this was the single most escavated spot in the Holy Land. Mr. Nur gave three reasons for this: 1.) because of religious and biblical connotations 2.) what is discovered is very complicated 3.) the location (only place horses and chariots could cross into Egypt, so, very important in battles. He stated that structures at Armageddon had been built over and over again, leading ...
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Vietnam War - The Conflict In Vietnam
Number of Words: 1515 / Number of Pages: 6
... was mainly Communist and supported Ho Chi Minh, while the south was supported by the United States and the French were based there. There was still some Communist rebels within South Vietnam. These were the Viet Cong. The South Vietnam ruler was Ngo Dinh Diem who was anti - Communist. At the conference, Laos and Cambodia became independent states.
North Vietnam wished to unify North and South Vietnam through military force. Since the United States feared the spread of communism in Asia, John F. Kennedy provided economic and military aid to South Vietman to prevent the takeover by North Vietnam. At thi ...
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Ernie Pyle
Number of Words: 1064 / Number of Pages: 4
... than sew; rather plow than bake”
(Tobin 6).
Through school Pyle loved to write. During high school he
was reporter, then editor, then editor in chief for his high
school newspaper. When he graduated high school, he too was
caught up in the “patriotic fever” of the nation upon America’s
entry into WWI (Whitman 2). He enlisted in the Naval Reserve
but before he could finish his training an armistice was
declared in Europe. After that he attended the University of
Indiana to study journalism, but left before he graduated.
Ernie Pyle persued his love for writing, and became a cub
reporter for “LaPor ...
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Copper Triangle
Number of Words: 947 / Number of Pages: 4
... tailings for copper pieces of any value. These boys were often called young "picky boys". The young girls would stay at home with their mother and help with the domestics and looking after the kids. There were many cases when a mining accident occurred and father was killed. This would be a major economic loss and often when this happened, the women were lent pressing machines to help them earn money. If there was a young son he would be able to earn a little money working as a "picky boy" in the tailing heap. If their family was part of a guild they would receive a small amount of money to live o ...
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