“The atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world,” Harry Truman told a radio audience on the night that followed the destruction of Nagasaki.
I find it funny that Truman decided to make this comment the night after U.S. dropped an Atomic bomb on Nagasaki. He basically is saying what we just did no one should do. I feel the U.S. and everyone else was shocked at the results of the atomic bomb.
The second strategic shock of 1949 was the successful Soviet test of an atomic bomb, years ahead of U.S. predictions.
I feel like the U.S. was not very scared or worried to much about the Soviet Union till after they tested the atomic bombs years ahead of predictions. After this i feel the cold war took a turning point and became more likely of a nuclear war happening with both countries producing and flexing their weaponry they were producing.
By most physical mea sures of power, the United States emerged from World War II as the strongest power on the globe, perhaps the greatest power the world had ever seen. By the end of the war, the United States possessed two- thirds of the world’s gold reserves, three- quarters of its investment cap-ital, half the world’s manufacturing capability, and it produced a third of the world’s goods.
i feel that this was a very [powerful part of the reading and very important. The USA came out of ww2 winning on all aspects compared to the other victories. I feel this is really where the idea of America is the best country of the world originated and we felt the need to stay a super power after WW2 and it has lasted all the way to today.
For the Soviet Union, the price of its victory was enormous. The United States lost about 300,000 men in the war, but the Soviet Union lost over 25 million, which as Gaddis calculates, means that for every American who died, 90 Soviets died.5 As Melvyn Leffl er enumerates the destruction:
i was shocked by this part of the reading because i did not know the Soviet union had lost this many people compared to the USA. The fact that for every 1 American meant 90 soviets is shocking that the country allowed this many soldiers to die. As a country its amazing that they were able to come back and not collapse after loosing 25 million people
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
I feel that this part is very hypocritical of America because everyone being equal and no discrimination is a problem that ahas been around since America began and still is a problem today. I feel that it is important that this part is in here because it begins to have people start thinking that way but it wasn't fully followed and still isn't to this day.
As for the United States, offi cial rec ords list 405,399 military dead in all branches of service— land, air, a nd sea. Th at is not a negligible number. But placed in the scales with the sacrifi ces that the war com-pelled other peoples to endure, it dramatically reveals the implications of America’s uniquely fortunate engagement in World War II.
The United states lost some of the lowest numbers of troops in WW2 and practically no civilians. I feel like the civilian numbers is really something to look at because the U.S. location is key and helps in so many ways. With the oceans in the way of Europe it allows no wars to be fought on American soil and no civilian causalities or economic hurt from the war being on American soil.
ecember 7, 1944— fell just six months aft er D-day, little more than a week before the onset of the Battle of the Bulge, less than two months aft er the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and about one month before the landings at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippine Islands— at the very moment, in short, when American forces were engaged in their most ferocious fi ghting of the war, on land and sea, in both the Eu ro pe an and Pacifi c theaters. Yet on that day Macy’s cash registers rang up a higher volume of sales than on any previous day in the giant retailer’s history. Th ere was not another country engaged in World War II where such a thing could have happened
I found this part of the reading very interesting because while all of the other countries were struggling economically during the war the U.S. was able to boost the economy rapidly and prosper. With people buying goods all over the country and manufacturing things for the war effort American soldiers were in Europe fighting a horrible war.
It conclusively banished the Great Depression and ushered in what the novelist Philip Roth has called “the greatest moment of collective inebriation in Amer-ican history,”
I feel that this was one of the best positive things to come out of WW2. I feel that if we did not enter WW2 or if WW2 did not happen at all we as a country would've been permanently economically destroyed for years to come. I feel like with the country coming out of the depression it gave people hope and brought a sense of nationalism back to the country and brought the country together as one to fight the war.