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- 71: The Manhattan Project
- ... name. Unless they worked at the lab themselves, wives knew nothing of their husbands' research Decisions to drop the atomic bomb went through several personalities, yet ultimately rested upon president Truman. The man whose decisions created the Manhattan Project, never lived to see the results of his labor. FDR died on April 12, three months before the first successful Trinity test. The responsibilities were soon placed upon Truman, the next president. Truman knew nothing about the bomb and its effects yet hastily decided that the bomb be used on Japan, considering Germany was no longer a target with the war in ...
- 72: Hiroshima, The World Is No Lon
- ... industrial city in Japan, the city of Nagasaki. It was dropped on August 9, 1945, just three days after “Little Boy”. After learning of what happened, many soldiers cheered, and Truman said, “This is the greatest thing in history”. The dropping of these two bombs was not the end of a war; it was only the mer beginning of a great ... in the world. They met at the Yalta Conference, which many historians cite as the beginning of the Cold War. On April 12, Franklin D. Roosevelt died and Harry S. Truman was sworn into office. A Lot of pressure was put onto the new Presidents shoulders as he was sworn in. On July 17, 1945 he spent his time at the ... to pay it off. On December 6, 1945 the U.S. loans 3.75 billion dollars to the Socialist Labor Government of Great Britain. December 31, TIME magazine selected Harry Truman as the Man of the Year for his efforts in stopping the war. Then on January 5, 1946, Truman wrote a letter to Byrnes declaring that he is no ...
- 73: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- ... II", 1997, 1-2). After the bomb exploded, Robert Oppenheimer, the head of the Manhattan Project, said, "Behold. I have become death, destroyer of worlds." (Hoare, 1987, 18) When Harry Truman became President after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, he appointed a committee to advise him about the atomic bomb. The committee was headed by Secretary of War, Henry Stimson. The ... propose no technical demonstration likely to bring an end to the war; we see no acceptable alternative to direct military use." Soon after that a group of scientists wrote Harry Truman asking not to drop the bomb on any city. They knew that the atomic bomb could cause too much destruction to be dropped on a populated area. Yet, the decision ... war, detonated over Hiroshima. Three days after the first bombing, on August 9, 1945, a second bomb named Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. After the bombing of Nagasaki, Harry Truman wrote a letter defending his decision to drop the bomb. "Nobody is more disturbed over the use of the Atomic bomb than I am but I was greatly disturbed ...
- 74: The End of World War Two
- ... s ability to import oil and other vital materials and its ability to produce war materials. Admiral William Leahy, the Chief of Staff to President Roosevelt and then to President Truman, wrote, that "by the beginning of September, 1944, Japan was almost completely defeated through a practically complete sea and air blockade. In May of 1945, the surrender of Germany freed ... the weapon, and to encourage surrender of the Japanese. General Dwight Eisenhower was also opposed to using the bomb because he believed that it was unnecessary to defeat Japan. Instead, Truman decided to drop the bomb at the drop of a hat, because he wanted to show the power and authority of America. Truman then sent orders to General Carl Spaatz, to officially drop the bomb and kill over 100,000 innocent Japanese civilians. Late on the morning of August the ninth, the ...
- 75: Atomic Bomb
- ... bombed most of its major cities including Tokyo which alone killed about 200,000 people in one week (Johnson 23). Without any sense of resistance from the Japanese forces, President Truman decided to take matters into his own hands. He realized the option of invading the island of Japan itself. However with the war in Europe over, President Truman was reluctant to start another one. However at this time, another option was open to Americans - an option that shall perpetually infect the history of the world. On July 16 ... in the shape of a mushroom billowed upward reaching in the sub stratosphere up to and elevation of 41,000 feet"(Johnson 25). The development of this deadly weapon made Truman's decision much easier. He defended his decision with the prospect that at the moment Japan saw the great power of the atomic bomb, they would surrender, therefore saving ...
- 76: Minimum Wage
- ... Labor Standards Act, which established the national minimum wage at 25 cents an hour; it banned oppressive child labor and set the maximum workweek at 44 hours. Since then, Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Bush, and Clinton have signed minimum wage increases into law. When President Truman was in office, he signed the conference compromise bill, which about 1.5 million earners received wage increases of more then 5 cents an hour, when the amendment came into ... effect on January 1950. “The Act has proved to be wise and progressive remedial legislation for the welfare not only of our wage earners but of our whole economy,” President Truman observed while signing his statement (Ayres, online). On January 25, 1951, during the Korean War, United States wages and prices were frozen. This was the second debate of minimum ...
- 77: The Effectiveness of Eisenhower's First Term: 1953-1956
- ... Age, a new era of responsibility that the United States hadn't fully come to understand and realize. Also, in this time the Cold War, that was started by the Truman administration, was beginning to escalate. When Dwight D. Eisenhower became the thirty-fourth president of the United States he was immediately confronted with several major events left to him by ... Commander of NATO forces in Europe. A bid for the Republican presidential nomination came from Senator Taft and his platform of the Korean War being an "unnecessary war" or a "Truman war" but few thought that he could win the presidency. Even though Taft was supported by the majority of the G.O.P. delegation in Congress, he was hindered in ... main issues of the campaign, the "creeping socialization" of the United States government. This issue sought to curb the spending on social programs that had increased during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Another issue of the campaign was the idea that Democrats were soft on communism. The vice presidential nominee, Richard Nixon, went so far as to say that "Adlai ...
- 78: African - American Civil Rights
- ... Blacks had crept in America's national past time; more radical social changes were soon to come. Disenfranchised blacks finally found a leader dedicated to their cause in Harry S. Truman. After hearing of a lynching of black war veterans, Truman was suddenly tuned in to the heated crisis in the southland. Despite persistent tries to advance the cause of the blacks, Truman was repeatedly shot down by a conservative congress. The boiling discontent felt by the blacks since the days of slavery could not be silenced so easily. The war had ...
- 79: A Fatal Mistake The Vietnam Wa
- ... declared the creation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, France, however, refused to recognize any independence (Chant 25). Ho Chi Minh was a known communist at this time, and President Truman refused to recognize any independence from France (Encarta Vietnam War ). Instead, he offered France assistance in containing the communist rebellion, (Chant 22). By October of the same year, the French ... held in 1956, but Diem feared Ho Chi Minh would win, and with U.S. support, decided not to hold the elections (Encarta Vietnam War ). Following World War II, President Truman saw the growing Communist threat to the free world. The idea of Containment was first addressed in the Truman Doctrine, which was at first meant to help anti-Communist forces in Greece and Turkey. Containment was the perfect justification for U.S. involvement in Vietnam, or any other ...
- 80: In Cold Blood: A Review
- ... crimes, left almost no evidence behind except for a bloody footprint and a radio they stole from the Clutter house. In the investigative nonfiction murder story "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, the story of Perry and Dick and the night of November 15, 1959 is relived. This fast-paced and straightforward documentary talks about the nature of American violence, and ... investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, but not before the reader gets to know Dick and Perry almost to well at times. While reading Truman Capote's nonfiction novel, "In Cold Blood," Capote's presentation of the facts surrounding the murders of an obscure Kansas farmer and three of his family members becomes almost frightening ... executions, Capote admitted to having become an alcoholic and an addict of tranquilizers to help him deal with the stress (from v ideo). The murder story, "In Cold Blood," by Truman Capote truly gives a new meaning to the term gut-wrenching through its unconventional retelling of events and its possible motives passed in childhood.
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