Study+Guide

Create a study guide for your topic. There are a few major themes/questions you need to cover which I have listed below: There were many major arguments for and against using the bomb. The US had a goal of ending the war, and they knew that the bomb could end the war as the Japanese would'nt give up. The bomb would also protect more american's from dying. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets and the US wanted to elimiate these targets with the fewest US casualities as possible. However using the bomb killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians were killed. This could have been prevented as Japan was already losing the fight. The bomb also has released radiaton that still affects and kills people in Japan today.
 * What were some of the major arguments for and against the use of the bomb?


 * What were some of the short and long-term consequences for the use of the bomb?

Resulted in much destruction in both cities, 200,000 immediate deaths, with more later as a result of radiation.Some of the long term consequences of using the atomic bomb was the radiation poison that would last for a long time once the bomb was droped. Another consequence of using the bomb was that america would be the first in history to use a atomic bomb. Also it started the nuclear warfare age which scared many nations that atomic bombs would be dropped throughout the world. Babies of several generations were born with disabilites due to the radiation that lasted in the area.

America used atomic bombs to show that they had the power to distroy any target at will. They also made as many as possible to compete with the Soviet's atomic bombs. They used their containment policy to keep communist expansion from getting to other countries. Nuclear wepons were used both as a threat to other countries, and as a last resort tactic if America were to be targeted for a nuclear strike.
 * How did the atomic bomb drive American foreign policy for the fifty years?