HIST-UA 651 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fred Korematsu, Manhattan Project, Attack On Pearl Harbor
23 Aug 2016
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Manhattan project german scientist discovered nuclear fission, weapons could be built (1930s) Most of jap air force was wiped out, most cities destroyed. Met with military experts to see what to do land invasion would cost 60k lives, last years, kill millions, chance of geurilla war was very high. Potsdam declaration: called for japan to surrender or face utter destruction, japan rejects this, so truman goes ahead with the bombs on hiroshima and. Nagasaki: japan finally surrenders, 200k + die, truman thought bombing was lesser of 2 evils, it ended the war in days, stopped loss of millions of lives. Japanese were relocated, like in prison or concentration camps their properites and assets 30731$ were seized by gov and they were only given 24 hours to pack up. Justice black believed the us was trying to protect the country w/ military defense, refused to acknowledge the problem of race, denied it was part of it.
