The A-Bomb, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki

The A-Bomb, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki

Introduction

It was 7th December of 1941, when the Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor, all the citizens of the United States feared of attacked, and this war seized the whole country. Some of the representatives insert the pressure on the president of that time Roosevelt to show the action against those Japanese who attacked Pearl Harbor, descent in the United States. The years between the First and Second World War were a period of political, economic and international instability, where European powers slowly began to organize in order to face at any time a new war. The paper will highlight the factors that contributed towards the World War II and the impact of nuclear war that took lives of thousands of innocent people.

Discussion

Causes of War

The essential causes of World War II were nationalistic tensions, unsettled issues, and resentments follow-on from the First World War. There has been a loss of millions of lives of people due to the effects and causes of World War. The movement of US from an isolationist foreign policy to one of intervention was a major ideological change for a country mostly used to looking inward. This change was most distinct during and immediately after WWII and had widespread implications.

There is no single cause or reason for the occurrence of the political, economic and social unleashed in World War II, but a combination of them all. In developing this Great War, one of the most remarkable episodes related to the desire of Hitler to take over Europe. The income of Americans to the war meant a strong support to the Allies. Both militarily and politically President Roosevelt decided to concentrate its contingent in Europe. At the start, we can locate in the division of powers and areas of influence that the Allies did in establishing the Treaty of Versailles and the failure of Britain, the dominant power at that time to establish a new order. As main causes of World War II, we can cite the provisions set forth in the Treaty of Versailles of 1918, signed for the surrender of Germany:

Payment of reparations by Germany to the Allies for economic losses suffered by them because of the war.

Reduction of the German army of 100,000 men, not possessing any weapons of modern combat (tanks, aircraft and submarines).

Reduction of the German fleet of ships less than 10,000 tons.

Another factor was the great recession that occurred in the world during the twenties and thirties in Germany, which created unemployment, falling living standards of the middle class and others who paved the way for the emergence of the German claims and thus, the impulse to National Socialist Party (Nazi). In summary, the following were the causes that led to World War II:

The nationalist fervor

The desire for expansion

A new system of alliances

The rearmament of the powers

The emergence of totalitarian regimes in Germany, Italy and Japan.

U.S Strategy behind the nuclear bombing

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