Right side of history question
- Posted by jhsif12 on October 4th, 2007 in
I'm trying to retihnk eveything my teachers have tuahgt me about history. My question is about Harry S. Truman.
I recently learned that FDR wasn't the great guy people made him out to be (at least the modern day school books) even if he was the president in world war 2 the hero of the war was more Churchill than anyone. on that note I was wondering were both atim bombs necessary for Japans surrender? I wouldn't normally ask this about such a subject but Harry S. Truman was a democrat, and I've learned that Democrats cannot be truste don policy, also what's with the "S" Was Korea a war we could haver won had he not "kicked out" Mccaruther. And what was the mindset behind the Geveva Convention i.e. heard a rumor that Truman was behind the idea that we cannot torture our captured enemy combatants because of the Geneva convention (even thought they don't follwo that).
if anyone can point me in the right direction for these answer, books, website etc.
please let me know
thanks
jason
FDR=CIC. Eisenhower=Supreme Allied Commander
Although FDR was Commander in Chief, it was Eisenhower who was the main architect of our WWII victory in Europe. FDR's performance on the home front was more questionable than his foreign policy, although he will be forever reviled by the Poles (and other Eastern Europeans) for selling them out to the communists in return for Stalin's cooperation against Hitler. It was one of those uncomfortable but necessary alliances like our support of Saddam Hussein against the Iranians in the early 80s.
FDR's social programs laid the groundwork for the entitlement mentality that plagues us today. His national "make work" programs didn't pull us out of the depression nearly as much as WWII did.
If we had bombed only Hiroshima and not Nagasaki, the Japanese may have thought it was a one-off attack that couldn't be duplicated and it would have left them with major munitions factories still standing. We had to prove that we could deliver overwhelming blanket destruction more than once at the place and time of our choosing. As a humanitarian gesture, however, the Japanese were warned before both bombs.
Cuedeta?
What's that?
both bombs were needed. even
both bombs were needed. even after the first bomb japans military was in the process of a cuedeta to over throw the emperror and continue the war untill the last man had fallen. the second bomb changed the outlook of some of thoes officers just enough for the ver throw to fail. japans emperror formaly anounced surrender via radio shortly after
Care to get into some
Care to get into some specifics about your FDR theory, or was what you "recently learned", learned from listening to Hannity?