World War II Argumentative Essay

World War II is cause for much debate over the morals and ethics of wartime attack strategies.
Many questionable methods were used to defeat the opposing sides in the war, such as the 3-day bombing of Dresden, which resulted in numerous deaths, mass destruction, and a huge devastation amongst the citizens in the city during the attack. Details about such things are left out of textbooks, and as a result, some people believe that WWII was a flawless victory, and a thing to be celebrated. However, such is not the case. WWII was not a good war for America, and was filled with many
errors, wrongdoings, and hypocrisy.
Neutrality in the early stages of the war prevented America from lending a hand. It basically allowed Germany to invade more land,

and take even more lives of the innocent. If America was involved earlier than it had been, Germany could have been prevented from taking as much land, and could have been defeated sooner. Therefore, America could have saved thousands of peoples' lives that the Nazi's had stolen. If America had remained neutral, Britain would have been defeated and nobody could have stood in the way between Hitler and a future world ruled by an oppressive democracy.
The dropping of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was morally wrong. The bombs
killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese people, and caused a huge devastation that would take years to recover from. Any survivors of the attack would either suffer and die painfully from the radiation sickness, or be horribly disfigured from the intense heat and impact of the bomb. The punishment was cruel and unjust, and if anything, should have been inflicted upon the people directly involved with the Japanese army instead of civilians.
America was disgusted that Germany could consider a group of people to be lesser than them
and mistreat them, but the fact is, America was doing almost the same thing. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans were put in internment camps for fear of being terrorists, regardless of how innocent the person may be. After the war ended, women were expected to leave the workforce and go back to taking care of their homes, as their role in the war had been played and was over. The same could be said for African Americans after the war. After working hard besides white people to end the war, they had returned to being segregated and America acted like they had done nothing to contribute to the war efforts.
However, some people do not agree that WWII was America's bad war.

They may say, for
instance, that the atomic bomb was necessary to reclaim prisoners of war that were to be executed, and to end the war. But there was no promise that the prisoners would not be killed by the Japanese army either way, or even by the bomb itself, as there was no way to control the explosion to prevent it from harming the prisoners of war. The bomb was also not necessary to end the war because the secretary to the Japanese War Minister stated that, "If the Americans launched a second or third [landing] attack, first our food supply would run out, then our weapons. The Americans could have won without using the atomic bombs."
These events prove that, despite what people are lead to believe, America is not perfect. The victory in World War II was flawed, and many drastic measures had been taken, despite how morally wrong they may have been. And consequentially, this war was good for no one. All sides in the war ended up with extreme damage and serious losses as a result of enemy attack. So while these actions may be perceived as necessary, they still resulted in the killing of human beings who had lives separate from the war, and families who were devastated by the loss of their loved

one.