Essay Sample on WWII's Impact on US: Lasting Effects of a Devastating War

Introduction

World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945 which was one of the deadliest war in human history. Over 30 countries fought the battle; the powerful countries formed two opposing alliances which included Allies and Axis, which lead to massacres, genocide, bombing, death from starvation and using of weapons of mass destruction. However, the World War II, affected many countries especially the US (Cogley & Sargent, 2001). World War II changed the United States in a significant way, at the time in 1941 the United States was still recovering from the great depression a lot of people were affected by high employment rate and bankruptcy, the World War II changed the price at which factories were manufacturing food in support of the army who were in the war.

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Isolation

During the combination of the great depression and catastrophic losses that occurred during the world War I the contributions of pushing the United States to public opinion regarding policy towards isolationism. It backed the noninvolvement of European and Asian war and the predicament of international politics (Berinsky, 2009). However, during the presidency of Roosevelt, he accepted the strength bounded by isolationist in Congress the year 1937, and in the same year the war situation in Europe continued to escalate, and also the Sino-Japanese war began to reign in Asia. President Roosevelt made a speech about quarantine of the nation the American was not yet decided to risk their men in the war, but in the year 1939 public opinion shifted regarding by neutralization of supporting United States aid to allies.

Pearl Harbor

A surprise and devastating attack on United States Naval base in Hawaii by Japanese forces on 7th of December 1941, nearly 2,400 Americans died and 1,000 people wounded during the attack including civilians after the day of the attack president Franklin D. Roosevelt pleaded with Congress to declare war to Japan. Congress gave a mandate to the president, and the American contributed towards the battle to fight back with the Japanese in World War II (Dower, 2000). Many of the American troops were to go to the conflict which now became Americans affair to punish their enemies, and this affected the economic and political lives of Americans.

The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

During World War II on 6th of August 1945, United States B-29 bomber dropped one of the world's first Atomic bomb over Japanese Hiroshima city, and the eruption wiped out nearly 90 percent of the people in the city, killing more than 80, 000 Japanese and tens of thousands would later die due to radiation exposure. After three days the second B-29 released another Atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki killing an estimated 40, 000 Japanese. At that time the emperor Hirohito announced that the country had surrendered unconditionally on August 15 (Minamoto et al., 2006). Using a weapon of mass destruction and killing of innocent lives made the American come into a treaty with Japan because of the devastating mass killing using the Atomic bomb.

The Manhattan Project

Before the war broke in 1939 a group of American scientist was concerned with the nuclear weapon research being shepherded by the Nazi in Germany. In 1940 America began to fund its atomic bomb development program which was established by the joint forces of Office of Scientific Research and Development and the War Department which was developed after American indulging into world war II (Kwak, 2005). The top-secret program was called "The Manhattan Project" which was established by engineers who constructed the facility. It led to the building of the atomic bomb that was used to become the deadliest attack ever recorded in human history and established by retaliation of the attack in pearl harbor.

Executive Order 9066

In 1942 president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066 which was initiated by the World War II policy in which Japanese Americans would face the consequences by being removed from resident enemy foreigners from the military areas. It leads to racial discrimination of the American Japanese despite their citizenship they were rounded up and placed in detention centers (McCormick, 2008). This affected loss of businesses, farms and loved ones. President Roosevelt has extreme pressure from the political members and the military to ensure that the attack would not happen again and this promoted the attorney general Francis Biddle to ask the president to do whatever was necessary to ensure they won the war. World War II affected the United States by issuing of FDR orders in which all Japanese Americans were taken to camps for the sake of security after the surprise attack from the pearl harbor.

Conclusion

The world war II being the deadliest war ever recorded in human history provided the basis in which most of the people and counties were affected. The United States was severely affected although they never wanted to take part in external affairs, their hands were tied by the Japanese surprise attack this lead to the deadliest attacks recorded in Japan as the American retargeted with two atomic bombs and led to surrender of the Japanese people. The aspect of war brings about negative consequences to civilians and also military as one cannot distinguish between the two and the results are usually casualties who end up being affected the most. America initiated into the war, and through that weapon of mass destruction were used, America was involved in external affairs, and this made them protect the country as well as their people.

References

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