HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Presbyterian Polity, Jimmy Doolittle, Turkey Shoot
22 Oct 2017
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Pacific: active defense while germany is priority, jimmy doolittle raids over tokyo, battle of coral sea. Albert einstein, prodded by leo szilard, interests fdr in developing the bomb. Enrico fermi= italian nuclear physicists: dropping, august 6th, 1945= hiroshima, august 9th, 1945= nagasaki, august 14th, 1945= japan announces it will surrender. September 2, 1945= official surrender of japan: should we have dropped bomb, yes: Saved lives: u. s invasion= 1 million lives, japanese casualties= 3-5 million lives. Bomb built to be used: can"t judge war by peacetime morality, revenge for pearl harbor, no: Japan would have accepted terms without atom bomb: could have achieved rest with conventional weapons. Immoral: u. s only nation to use nuclear weapons. In morocco: roosevelt, churchill and de gaulle, decision: unconditional surrender, yalta conference. Fdr, churchill and stalin: results, line of division in europe between ussr and west, poland and eastern europe have free elections, potsdam conference.
