Was Dropping the Atomic Bombs a Crime Against Humanity? : Insights from Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Autore: Okawa Ryuho
• Pubblicazione: New York, : IRH Press Co., Ltd, 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 335.43
• Soggetto topico: Communism -- United States; Communism; Socialism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; PUBLISHER'S NOTE; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE: THE EXPLANATION FOR USING THE ATOMIC BOMB; HARRY S. TRUMAN (1884 - 1972); 1 WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DECISION TO USE THE ATOMIC BOMB?; Interviewing Two U.S. Presidents about the Truth Behind the Atomic Bombs; Was World War II a Fight Between God and the Devil?; These Spiritual Interviews Are Essential for the Pressing Issue of Revising the Constitution; Summoning the Spirit of Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman; 2 TRUMAN'S REASONS FOR ORDERING THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS; Truman Apologizes for Dropping the Atomic Bombs ; Right from the Start, Japan Was the Target for the Atomic BombsThe True Intentions of the United States Regarding the Liberation of the Colonies; The Reasons Behind the Tokyo Air Raid; The Threat Posed by the Japanese; MacArthur Felt that the Emperor Could Be Used to Keep Japan Under Control; The Atomic Bombing Was Used to Keep the Soviets in Check; The United States Dropped Two Bombs in Order to Test Them; U.S. Propaganda after the War Justifying the Atomic Bombings; Why Roosevelt Urged the USSR to Join the War against the Japanese ; Japan Made a Strategic Error by Not Using Its One Million Soldiers in China3 DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE JAPANESE; The Official Statement of the United States Says that Racial Discrimination Was Not the Reason for the Atomic Bombings; The United States Prefers to Fight Strong Enemies Until It Achieves a "Knockout"; The War Against Japan Immediately Lifted the United States Out of Recession; Truman Says It Is Difficult to Be Accused of Racism; Why Did Truman Bomb Japan Even After Japan Was Ready to Surrender?; Truman Did Not See the Japanese as Equals ; Americans Invented the "Nanking Massacre" to Justify Their ActionsTo Which Part of the Other World Did Truman Go?; The United States Labeled the Japanese Inhumane to Raise American Morale; Truman Was a Member of the Ku Klux Klan, a White Supremacist Group; Truman Explains Why He Didn't Use the Atomic Bomb in the Korean War; 4 WAS WORLD WAR II REALLY A WAR BETWEEN FASCISM AND DEMOCRACY?; When the Korean War Began, Truman Began to Doubt Whether It Was Right to Have Gone to War with Japan; Truman Claims to Have Had a Christian Conscience Despite His Membership in the KKK ; America Created the Idea of a War between Fascism and Democracy to Justify Its ActionsThe United States Used Wartime Propaganda To Portray the Japanese as Menacing Monkeys; The Pacific War Helped Liberate European Colonies from Western Domination; President Obama Is Unlikely to Visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 5 THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR THE FAR EAST, THE JAPANESE CONSTITUTION, AND JAPANESE POLITICIANS' VISITS TO THE YASUKUNI SHRINE; The International Military Tribunal for the Far East Was Unfair Because the Victorious Nations Were Judging the Defeated Ones ; Lincoln Was a Great Figure Because He Did Not Punish the Confederates
• Sommario/riassunto: Today, Japan faces several interlocking threats. The concrete threat of communist China's military expansion accompanies renewed threats to Japan's global image. We have seen a resurfacing of the fabricated claims that the Japanese Imperial Army used Korean comfort women in World War II, as well as false accusations that Japan conducted mass killings in the Nanking Massacre during the Sino-Japanese War. Historically, Japan has been portrayed as part of the imperialistic and fascist faction of the Axis Powers. The image of Japan as having an ""evil history"" has created a dangerously dire lack
• Altri titoli varianti: Was Dropping the Atomic Bombs a Crime Against Humanity?
• Titolo autorizzato: Was Dropping the Atomic Bombs a Crime Against Humanity
• ISBN: 1-937673-88-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910165026303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II