Critics have charged the United States was morally irresponsible in using atomic weapons against Japan during World War II. What are their arguments? What are the arguments in support of dropping the bombs? Was the United States' action moral or not?
What will be an ideal response?
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A. "Yankee Doodle." B. "The Pledge of Allegiance." C. "Stars and Stripes Forever." D. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." E. "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Research on comforting messages has been shown to do all of the following except _______
A) make someone become dependent on being comforted B) increase the self-esteem of the person who is comforting the other C) improve physical health D) none of the above
Imamu Amiri Baraka, Muhammad Ali, and Kwame Touré were:
A) Vietcong leaders. B) American blacks who rejected their "slave names." C) gay rights activists arrested at the Stonewall Inn. D) founders of NOW.
Why did Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin meet in Yalta in 1945?
a) Worried that a general peace conference might produce punitive measures like those taken in Versailles in 1919, they chose to informally organize peace conditions among themselves. b) Knowing that Roosevelt was likely dying, Churchill and Stalin wanted to give him some privacy at the end of war meetings. Consider This: What had been the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference following the end of World War I? See 14.1: The Fighting Ends. c) Knowing that the Cold War was about to start, Churchill and Roosevelt thought meeting in Yalta would be a good way to appease Stalin. Consider This: What had been the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference following the end of World War I? See 14.1: The Fighting Ends. d) Churchill worried that meeting in Britain would help his opponents, who hated Stalin, remove Churchill as prime minister. Consider This: What had been the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference following the end of World War I? See 14.1: The Fighting Ends.