Bombing+of+Nagasaki

__**Bombing of Nagasaki**__ Students Assigned:
 * Chris T~ Significance (done), Winner (done), Pictures (done), First Hand Account (done)
 * Jin Hyeok~ Information, Citation, Primary source

History
 * President Truman's advisers informed Truman that invasion of Japanese homeland will cause the Allies to lose half a million lives.
 * Truman made decision to use new weapon, atomic bomb, developed by Manhattan project. They hope this will make war end faster.
 * Warned Japan that they can expect "rain of ruin from the air." if they not surrender.
 * Japan no reply
 * On August 6, U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japanese city with 350,000, causing 70,000 and 80,000 people died.
 * United States dropped another bomb on Nagasaki, called "Fat Man" three days after they dropped bomb on Hiroshima. Bombing of Nagasaki killed 80,000 people. Bombing on Nagasaki totally destroyed city.
 * Japan surrenders on September 2,WWII ended as Japan surrenders.



//__Winner__// The clear and obvious winner of this event was the United States of America. As you can tell from the pictures above, Nagasaki was almost totally obliterated. Many people often describe the city afterward as, "A giant graveyard without any tomb stones." Nagasaki was A big part of Japan, with major factories helping the war effort and constantly expanding, Many of the houses were only made of wood and were very close together. It is estimated that one hundred to two hundred thousand people died.

﻿First Hand Account **Pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb. **

**My mission was clear, fly over the island of Japan, and drop code name, "Fat Man" on Kokura. I was flying, alone in my cockpit, the sky seemed clear. I became very anxious as we came closer to our coordinates. Before I knew it, we were flying through a patch of clouds... and right over our target. This was clearly a huge problem, If none of us could see our target how could we accurately drop the bomb on them? I turned around as soon as I could and repeated this process three times; The clouds just would not clear away. We began to run low on fuel, and i directed my aircraft toward target B, Nagasaki. I locked onto the new coordinates and quickly flew over the city, we were here before. The bomb was dropped and we quickly made our way back home. I could see through my windows the giant explosion that we caused, so many people must have suffered. I absolutely hate what i have done and feel horrible about myself. I decided right than and there to give back to Japan, and tell people the horrors of what happened during the war. **

Significance This event arguable had the most significance on the war. After this event the Japanese surrendered to America and began the end of the war. If this had not happened who knows how long the war could have lasted. Although, all these events did not happen directly after the bombing. The Japanese continued to fight, all for their Emperor. After discussion, the Japanese agreed to surrender only if America aloud them to keep their emperor, he only had limited power. After this agreement, Americans went to japan and were actual welcomed by most.

Nagasaki in Modern Earthquake As many people have heard a devastating earthquake hit Japan with about 12,000 people missing. Surprisingly, the earthquake or tsunami had no effect on Nagasaki at all, many people had no idea a disaster occurred in their country.

MLA citations World history patterns and interactions. . Evanston, IL: McDougal LIttel, 2008. Print.

Works Cited"The Bombing of Nagasaki." //History Learning Site //. Web. 24 May 2011. .Fujita, Michio. "My Experience of the Suffering from the Atomic Bombing." //Www.d1.dion.ne.jp //. Web. .Mercy, God's. "BBC ON THIS DAY | 6 | 1945: US Drops Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima." //BBC News - Home //. Web. 24 May 2011. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_3602000/3602189.stm>. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 150%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Primary Source Michio Fujuta's Expericence of bombnig of Nagasaki [|http://www.d1.dion.ne.jp/~marikoba/peace-ingles.html]