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Media Construction
of Peace
PowerPoint Slide Show, Unit 4,
Lesson 1
World War Two
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“If we permit our country to become involved in the wars now
raging in Europe, Asia and Africa, we face disastrous sacrifices
- human, social and material. We risk the liberties of the
United States in a conflict from which no nation can emerge
truly victorious. Let us spare America from such an act of
national folly.”
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Exact life for retaliation for
atrocities?
Dismember their nation?
Crush their peace-time industries?
Enslave their people by
indemnities and forced labor?
Disarm them in an armed world?
No punitive indemnities or forced
labor?
Impartial trial of all persons
charged with crime?
Self-determination for a
democratic Germany?
Immediate limitation of all
armaments?
World trade regulation for
universal prosperity?
Admission of all free peoples to
cooperation?
American History high school textbook excerpt from:
“Defeating Japan”, pg. 575, in United States History: Two Centuries of Progress by
Harold Eibling, Carlton Jackson and Vito Perrone, published 1974
”Finally the United States gave Japan an ultimatum, one
final warning to surrender. But the warning fell on deaf ears.
Now President Harry S Truman had to make a major
decision. He had become President after Franklin
Roosevelt’s death in April, 1945. Truman now decided to
use a new American weapon, the Atom Bomb, against
Japan. He believed its use would end the war and save
many lives.
On August 6, 1945, a one ton bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima, a major Japanese city. Three days later a
second bomb struck Nagasaki. Both cities were destroyed.
On August 14 the war ended. And on September 2, 1945,
or V-J Day, the Japanese signed the formal terms of
surrender.”
American History high school textbook excerpt from: “Atomic Warfare”, pg. 772 in
American History: A Survey by Alan Brinkley, published 2003
“With the Soviet Union poised to enter the war in the Pacific,
did the United States want to end the conflict quickly to
forestall an expanded communist presence in Asia? Did
Truman use the bomb as a weapon to intimidate Stalin, with
whom he was engaged in difficult negotiations, so the Soviet
leader would accept American demands? Little direct evidence
is available to support (or definitively refute) either of these
accusations.
On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay,
dropped an atomic weapon on the Japanese industrial center at
Hiroshima. With a single bomb the United States completely
incinerated a four-square-mile area at the center of the
previously undamaged city. More than 80,000 civilians died,
according to later American estimates. Many more survived to
suffer the crippling effects of radioactive fallout or to pass
those effects on to their children in the form of birth defects.”