In history, we have two topics to choose from to write our research paper about. One topic is the Holocaust and the other is the atomic bomb in Japan. To help us choose which topic we would like, Coach Hanford had us watch movies on each. The one about the Holocaust was Schindler's list. Personally, I loved this movie. It was about a German Nazi, who was a very wealthy businessman who went from feeling indifferent towards the Jewish people to helping them. He spent all of his money building "factories" to help produce guns and such to help the Germans when in reality, he said he would be very upset if he made a gun that could actually shoot. Because he didn't produce anything that could really be bought, he made no money. All the money he had went to bribing and black-market supplies for his workers. He sacrificed his life and career to save more than 1,200 Jewish people. When the Nazi's were removing the Jews from the ghettos, Schindler saw a little girl in a red dress whom he began to sympathize for. Later on in the movie, the little girl comes back into the movie and Schindler sees her on a barrel carrying dead Jews to a fire because the Germans were trying to dispose of any evidence. After the war, Schindler lived among the Jews he saved because he felt that they were his people. The movie was very inspirational and truly shows how one person can truly make a difference. The second movie which was based on the creation of the atomic bomb was called, Fat Man, Little Boy. It was called that because those were the names of the two bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. I didn't particularly like this movie, but it did teach me things I did not know about the atomic bomb and gave me an opinion on it. In the movie, a general in command named Leslie Groves led the Manhattan project which was the creation of the atomic bombs. He gave scientist, physicists, and mechanics 19 months to create an atomic bomb that worked and could be put into a jet so that it would not explode until they wanted to. The United States was very paranoid around this time because they thought that the Axis Powers were working on an atomic bomb also. In the movie, a spy in Germany sent a letter to General Groves telling him that Germany had no atomic bomb nor were they trying to create one, but t
he United States continued to work on one. The U.S. Army wanted complete secrecy about the project, not even the F.B.I knew about it. They split up the different sections of the project and gave each a little bit of information about the project, but not the entire story to prevent it from leaking into the public or worse, Germany or Japan. There were many against using the atomic bomb because it was extremely fatal and would kill thousands of people in which it did. The U.S. did not give prior warning except that they would suffer dire consequences if they did not surrender. Seriously, who would have expected the U.S. to build two atomic bombs and use that as a "dire consequence"? Learning about the atomic bomb really made me feel some type of way about the intentions of the U.S. government. Is the victory of a war truly worth the lives of +200,000 people? In my opinion, the U.S. could have found another method in winning the war, but they just wanted to be lazy and take an easy way out even though it took a lot or hardwork and effort to build the bombs. The people who helped create it even protested against the use of them and wanted to talk to the president wh
o was then Truman, and they were ignored. I think that the government didn't truly want to tell its people exactly what they were doing because they would be against it. I know many people felt bitter about what happened to Pearl Harbor, I agree that it was also wrong for Japan to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet, but does that justify the murder of 200,000 people? After watching the movie, I truly felt disgusted. I felt so much sympathy towards the Japanese people because some of those people were innocent people who had no idea what was coming.
he United States continued to work on one. The U.S. Army wanted complete secrecy about the project, not even the F.B.I knew about it. They split up the different sections of the project and gave each a little bit of information about the project, but not the entire story to prevent it from leaking into the public or worse, Germany or Japan. There were many against using the atomic bomb because it was extremely fatal and would kill thousands of people in which it did. The U.S. did not give prior warning except that they would suffer dire consequences if they did not surrender. Seriously, who would have expected the U.S. to build two atomic bombs and use that as a "dire consequence"? Learning about the atomic bomb really made me feel some type of way about the intentions of the U.S. government. Is the victory of a war truly worth the lives of +200,000 people? In my opinion, the U.S. could have found another method in winning the war, but they just wanted to be lazy and take an easy way out even though it took a lot or hardwork and effort to build the bombs. The people who helped create it even protested against the use of them and wanted to talk to the president wh
o was then Truman, and they were ignored. I think that the government didn't truly want to tell its people exactly what they were doing because they would be against it. I know many people felt bitter about what happened to Pearl Harbor, I agree that it was also wrong for Japan to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet, but does that justify the murder of 200,000 people? After watching the movie, I truly felt disgusted. I felt so much sympathy towards the Japanese people because some of those people were innocent people who had no idea what was coming. 
