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What is your favorite/most interesting highlight in U.S. History?
Mine is WW2.
Mine is WW2.
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Grover Cleveland.
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Originally Posted by Rashakil Fol 
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WW2 was mine too -- that's when I was born 
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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon
WW2 was mine too -- that's when I was born
I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. -The Notebook
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Originally Posted by Rashakil Fol
Grover Cleveland.
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There's one thing I don't entirely agree on, and that was the detonation of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during WW2, does anyone disagree?
I think that President Truman made a huge mistake by doing that. He knew there were other options than slaughtering thousands of innocent Japanese lives. (They were relentless though).
I think that President Truman made a huge mistake by doing that. He knew there were other options than slaughtering thousands of innocent Japanese lives. (They were relentless though).
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I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. -The Notebook
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Originally Posted by christina>you
There's one thing I don't entirely agree on, and that was the detonation of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima during WW2, does anyone disagree?
I think that President Truman made a huge mistake by doing that. He knew there were other options than slaughtering thousands of innocent Japanese lives. (They were relentless though).
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The nuclear bomb has also been considered as a political move to prevent the Russians from invading Japan, both to show the power of the US and to end the war before the Russians had a chance to get involved on that side. That way the US was able to build Japan into the capitalist nation it has come to be, without worrying about Russian communism during the reconstruction. I've not researched the theory myself, but it does make a lot of sense given the following 30 years of the Cold War against communism.
ah, yes. I forgot that aspect of it as well. Pretty much the end of ww2 started the cold war. And the nuke was what made the U.S. emerge from the war as a world power... The soviets were right on our tail from that moment on. Only 2-3 years behind in developing nuclear weapons, then the hydrogen bomb. And the launch of sputnik put the Soviets ahead of the Americans in the space race. However, the Americans were then the first to land on the moon (supposedly).
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