Pearl Harbor was deliberately attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. Reports indicate that 2400 people were killed and 1300 were wounded. [1-ap] The reason Japan bombed Pearl Harbor was because that was where all of the U.S. Navy ships were positioned. The Americans went on the offensive against the Japanese in the Pacific in mid-1942.
The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on, a medium-sized Japanese city, Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. President Truman’s decision of dropping the atomic bombs was absolutely necessary since it saved lives of millions of the Americans and the Japanese as well. This attack on Pearl Harbor was just an example of what could have happened if the war had continued. If the war had continued, another attack on U.S. soil could have taken
place. This could have turned the 6,000 dead American civilians into 9,000 dead civilians.[2-cyber] That number could have kept rising until the......

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Title: Truman's Decision About Dropping Atomic Bomb
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