Period 5 US History Bergen
For Mr. Bergen's US History class.
Option 1: Make this a time for peace. Japan is defeated. Don't use the bomb.
Option 2: Act responsibly. Demonstate the power of the bomb. If Japan doesn't surrender, they are the immoral ones. We must lead by example.
Option 3: Push ahead to final victory. Fascism must end. Too many American lives have been lost. The bomb will save American lives.
Grading Scale:
A: Student has clear claim and provides facts and evidence in counterclaims and rebuttals. Student speaks almost exclusively from fact than from opinion. Student is effective at creating more debate with their counterclaim and rebuttals. Student consistently speaks with outside independent research. Student tone and language is appropriate and respectful.
B: Student has clear claim and provides facts and evidence in counterclaims and rebuttals. Student speaks more from fact than from opinion. Student is effective at creating more debate with their counterclaim and rebuttals. Student tone and language is appropriate and respectful.
C: Student has clear claim and provides opinion in counterclaims and rebuttals. Student speaks more from opinion than from facts. Student tone and language is appropriate and respectful.
F: Student has clear claim and provides only opinion in counterclaims and rebuttals. Student tone and language is appropriate and respectful.
Resources:
http://dbp.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Bombing_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
http://www.endusmilitarism.org/a-bombings-arguments_pro_and_con-wikipedia.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0803-26.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4724793.stm
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we should have graven Japan a demonstration of what type of power we held so they would have Gave up then and there rather then killing millions of innocent people by using the atomic bomb towards the wrong type of people we would have saved many life's of our American troops 0
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i support option one because the united states had no real reason to bomb japan they went to the soviets and tried to negotiate about keeping their leader and avoiding war they knew they were defeated and starting something they couldn't finish would be stupid and it would be useless to start a war and risk killing innocent civilians 2
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I support option one because the U.S didn't really have a reason to bomb the Japanese. It isn't a good thing to start war, it is better to end one. Japan wanted to make a deal with the soviets to keep their leader and avoid war, but the soviets turned down the deal to get land. It would be pointless to go to war with the state that just wants their leader and to skip war. We would also be killing many innocent civilians. 1
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Sometimes wars are necessary even when innocent lives are lost. How many innocent lives are too many to lose? In WWII the US made war against Japan. To end the war the US dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. This was a bad decision that the US made because 66,000 people died in Hiroshima. 1
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A deterrent to the USSR. The Soviets invaded Manchuria on August 9, 1945 only 3 days after the Hiroshima bombing and 9 hours before the Nagasaki bombing. The US were aware that the USSR would enter the Pacific War on 9 August because at the Yalta Conference Stalin had promised Roosevelt that he would declare war on Japan no later than 3 months after the end of the war in Europe (Germany surrendered on 7 May, which makes 9 August the latest date in which the Soviets would declare war on Japan). It was therefore no coincidence that Truman unleashed two nukes, one 3 days before and one 9 hours after 9 August. It was an attempt to end the war before the Soviets could occupy significant territory as well as showing the USSR that the US was in possession of nukes. 2
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The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought the war with Japan to a much earlier close than would have happened if they had not been dropped. Millions of lives were thus saved, as the Japanese military was prepared to sacrifice the entire population of Japan to avoid the shame of defeat. Another, almost unknown fact was that the Japanese were on the verge of developing their own nuclear device when the A bombs were dropped on Japan. :D |