The Soviet Union on the other hand was the polar opposite. They believed in a communistic form of government, believed in workers revolting against business owners, and they wanted to control countries between Russia and Germany. The United States believed that the spread of communism needed to come to a halt because it posed a threat to their economic prosperity and their “freedom” as American people (Document G). It was this complete and utter distaste for communism that increased tensions between…
President H. Truman ordered the use of the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945 in hopes that it would help shorten the war, but the primary reason was to limit Soviet involvement in international affairs. The United States of America was clearly not playing games with the rest of the world. President Truman utilized nuclear weapons…
By dropping the atomic bomb, the United States successfully ended WWII while still preventing the Russians from acting out on countries like Romania and…
The United State wanted to showed the strength to other country. It showed the superiority of the United State to the rest of the world, by showing their possession of atomic weapons. The aim for America was to scare some countries that wanted to attack US, even on the stage of world domination. In one hand, the United State used the atomic bombs has impressed the Soviet Union and halted the war quickly.…
Danger flows through cities and terror floods around the world faster than any disease after World War II with the mass destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 1945. Due this world changing event everyone wanted the power of the atom bomb. The fear of the atomic bomb and communism was spreading throughout the United States and other Allied Countries. The United States had a method called “containment” and its purpose was to stop communism before it spread and to rid of it. The long “war” was held from 1945 till 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union were in this battle of who could create the better, bigger, and more powerful atom bomb and to get rid of communism and contain it out of the United States, to which this…
Truman authorized deployment of the thermonuclear, or hydrogen, bomb. The new weapon, a thousand times more powerful than the bomb that killed more than 100,000 people in Hiroshima, was successfully tested in 1952. The Soviet Union, already long committed to the same agenda, followed suit some nine months after the American test. “The main example of the arms race was the A-bomb, which was a consequence of the tension held between United States and Soviet Union during the second World War. Each one of these countries pushed to be the first in the arms race so the development of the atomic bomb was the main goal during this time period.…
The Usage of the Atomic Bomb The atomic bomb was used mainly for the purposes of war and freedom over the Axis Powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan. The United States had to use them to keep the American people out of fear and to not have anyone else on their side have any more casualties. It has changed the United States’ history forever because it was used in WW II, dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and helped the United States end and win the war.…
causing the United States to enter World War II. In the Beginning of 1942, The U.S government formed what is known as the Manhattan Project. This project was formed to secretly build and test atomic bombs. The knowledge and tests done here would later on contribute to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan. On August 6, President Truman announced a statement to the US, confirming that the Manhattan Project was a success and they have invented a new type of weapon., leaving President Truman with a decision on what to do with the bombs.…
During WWII there was one major discovery that not only changed history then, but also continues to change how wars are fought to this day. Yes, this discovery was the atomic bomb. Harry Truemen is credited with saying, “It’s (referring to the atomic bomb) production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this government.” To the general public this might seem like a typical wartime statement. He goes on (in document H) to say that since we had the technology we used it to decimate Japan and stop them from attacking the U.S, but is that all the bomb was used for?…
The United states Dropped a Nuclear weapon on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki to try and get japan out of the war so they could focus on the more important battles with Germany. These bombings killed over 100,000 people. This showed all of the countries just how dangerous nuclear warfare can be. This got the Japanese army to surrender and no longer fight the Americans. The United States offered to help rebuild any of the wreckage caused by the mass bombings.…
Soviet occupation in Poland), and bolstered attacks, asserting on the USSR's behalf, their bent on world domination. The United States misconstrued Soviet intentions and assigned world domination' as Stalin's main goal. With such a seemingly aggressive Soviet threat at hand, the U.S. utilized documents and speeches like Kennan's Long Telegram, Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech and the Truman doctrine to acknowledge the maturing Soviet menace. These three documents and declarations deepened the stratification of the already tenuous Soviet and U.S relationship and unwittingly expedited and worsened Cold War tensions. The Soviets would then respond to the United States via pronouncements and reactions (i.e. the Cominform as a rebuttal to the Marshall Plan) as an escalating tit-for-tat would lead the U.S. and the USSR towards more enmity.…
Although the United States and the Soviet Union were allies during World War II, their relationship became tense afterward. The Soviet Union created their first nuclear weapon which became successful. Communism then began to haunt America in the late 1940s and 1950s. It created fear into Americans with a communist invasion and a global atomic war. It affected movies, tv shows, games, novels, and many other products.…
The atomic bomb created a chain reaction that led to the Cold War then the Cuban Missile Crisis. Because theoretically the Cold War has not concluded, tensions between the Soviets and the Americans could get out of hand at any given moment. The dropping of the atomic bomb is also important to United States history because World War II definitely ended in favor of America. The atomic bomb was the first part of a road map that would lead the United States to be the biggest world power on the face of the…
After the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Japan the Soviet Union felt that they need to create their own nuclear weapon to ensure that the U.S. would not use one on them. Then in 1949 the Soviet Union set off their first nuclear weapon. The Soviet Union’s nuclear bomb test scared America because now the U.S. was not the only one with a nuclear weapon and now it felt threatened. As a result of the Soviet’s test the U.S. started to produce more nuclear weapons under the idea of deterrence. “The stockpile of both the United States and the Soviet Union increased in a nuclear arms race as each sought to develop a deterrent to the other, involving a second-strike capability” (Carlisle).…
Four years later the Soviet have their first successful atom bomb. The Hydrogen bomb tests successfully for the first time in 1951. Two years later the Soviet have their own successful Hydrogen bomb. This was important topic to cover since it stuck fear into the hearts of the people. Kennedy talks about this fear, “Let us never negotiate out of fear.…