Was the atomic bomb helpful in World War 2?

Answer 1

It's arguable. Bombing certainly affected the war e.g. Battle of Britain. Near the end of the war Britain began to bomb German cities which weakened German moral. Hitler was hoping the bombings on Britain would have this affect on Brits so this was quite ironic.

AnswerAbsolutely, with out doubt. EVERY armed force in WW 2 used air bombing to some extent, and in many cases, it was the factor in turning the victory.

There are very few defenses that can be put up against a mass bombing attack by air craft. Having to sit and take it on the ground is very hard to endure, and after weeks of it, most people just want to get out and run away.

AnswerIt is clear that bombing of strategic targets such as bridges, airfields or rail yards did help to win WW11. Take the allied air assault of French railways on and immediately after D Day, for example.

The use of mass bombing has, however, always been open to question by reason of both it's morality and effectiveness. As an earlier reply stated Hitler tried to bomb Britain into submission in 1940/41 but despite killing some 40,000 people, he failed. He did not break their will to fight on and despite the damage done (some two million homes damaged and hundreds of factories hit) British domestic war production was still able to increase.

From 1943 onwards, British raids on Germany became heavier and heavier culminating with the raid on Dresden, which alone is thought to have killed 35,000 people. Again, the aim was two fold, to damage factories and break the spirit of the enemy. Again, throughout the allied air campaign German war production continued to rise and the people continued to fight on.

Although in both these examples the offensive appears to have failed in it's aim the real consequences of the bombing are that without it industrial output would have been significantly higher, transportation of men, equipment and raw materials much easier, workers would have been fitter and morale even more resolute. So although bombing on it's own didn't win the war it was a vital contributor to that victory.

After the war Speer said in an interview that, following a raid on Hamburg, "If the allies could have made four or five more raids of that intensity in a fairly short space of time Germany would have been brought down". Since Speer was responsible for German munitions production he was in a better position than anyone else to make such a comment. I believe both the UK and US bomber forces were somewhat "tired" at that time and it is likely that the allies did not have the resources to mount four or more heavy raids after Hamburg in a fairly short space of time.

Answer 2

Well it helped a little.IT HELPED BY:

• Making Japan back off.
• Especially it made them back off from America!

OTHER THINGS THAT HELPED END THE WAR:

• Hitler commiting suicide and all...
• And yeah!

Seeing how Germany and Italy already surrendered, Japan was the last country to defeat to end WW2. So yes, dropping the bombs ended WW2.

Answer 3

The atomic bomb was very helpful in ww2 because it killed thousands in Japan. And it weakened the allies of Hitler. But before that America didn't want to be part of ww2.

Unfortunately, America got interfered because the Japanese bombed pearl harbor. And that made Americans mad. When they bombed Pearl Harbor that's when the Americans got involved!

answ2. But to the question. There is no doubt that the (Nagasaki) atomic bomb ended WWII. I seem to recall that the Japanese Emperor's words were "We must accept the unacceptable" or words to that effect.

Before and during the war, Japan was saturated with Propaganda, much the same as the intensity only seen today in N Korea. They genuinely believed the Emperor was a God, and that the Japanese peoples were invincible.

That is the propaganda behind hari kari, Kamikaze pilots, and the terrible incidents of the civilians in Okinawa throwing themselves off cliffs, rather than being overcome. It is quite difficult for folk who have not experienced such propaganda to appreciate it.

Had the Atomic bombs not been dropped, victory for the Allies would have been no less certain, but at the expense of Allied lives. And if Okinawa was a measure, of about 20 times that number of civilian lives. These civilian casualties would have totalled much greater than the deaths at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[And even today, when a person dies who had lived through Hiroshima, their death is chalked up to the bomb!]