events shape World War 2? September 18‚ 1931 Japan invades Manchuria. It started the war. July 7‚ 1937 Japan invades China‚ initiating World War II in the Pacific. It got the pacific in the mix. September 1‚ 1939 Germany invades Poland‚ initiating World War II in Europe.It got the war spreading. December 7‚ 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor.It got the U.S attention. April 30‚ 1945 Hitler commits suicide.They lost their leader. May 9‚ 1945 Germany surrenders to the Soviets. August 6‚ 1945 The United States
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as others? If a situation develops in which rival countries have the same means of destruction‚ we are in danger of entire cities being annihilated. The decision to use the atomic bomb was unjustified. The terms which were imposed after the war on Japan had not been made public. If
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In particular‚ he divulges the controversial topic of the necessity of the atomic bomb to force Japan into unconditional surrender‚ which had been a policy under President Roosevelt‚ or another option to attain the same outcome. President Truman wanted to accomplish Roosevelt’s
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time to liberate the Pacific from Imperial Japan. After the Japanese defeat at Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945‚ the United States now had the ability to bomb Japan. After the United States’ blockading and relentless bombing of Japan‚ the nation refused to surrender. As a final attempt to avoid the invasion of Japan‚ the United States dropped the atomic bomb Little Boy on Hiroshima on August 6‚ 1945. Three days later‚ the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and invaded Manchuria. On the same day‚ the
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thought for surrender. Providing primary sources from Marquis Kido‚ Japanese governmental and military officials‚ Butow offers evidence that provides historians with a new perspective. The new perspective that Butow focuses on examines the terms of surrender offered to the Japanese at the Potsdam Conference. Through his investigation of the Potsdam terms‚ the author argues that Japan would have surrendered much faster if the United States had retracted the idea of unconditional surrender. Based on
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dropped and what the atomic bombs were used for. World War II for Japan ended with two atomic bombings in Japan‚ one in Hiroshima on 6 August‚ 1945 and another in Nagasaki on 9 August‚ 1945. There have been discussions whether or not the atomic bombs were necessary to end the war and what made Harry S. Truman‚ the President of the United States of America‚ to make the final decision to drop not only one but two atomic bombs in Japan‚ the nation which was completely defeated by then. The Japan’s military
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alarming environment in Japan‚ however‚ president Truman actually makes the right decision to drop the bomb because the bombing is the most efficient way to end the war‚ and it is an influential warning to the whole about the use of nuclear weapon‚ as well as a lesson about the right way of the international relationship is to being cooperatively
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raged on with huge increasing number of casualties caused in both Japan and America. However‚ Japanese military’s stubborn mindset had led to their refusal to end the war. In order to force the Japanese to surrender unconditionally‚ many have argued that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was needed. However‚ I would argue that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima alone would be sufficient in forcing the Japanese to surrender unconditionally. The words “needed to force” in the question implies
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Bomb Although Japan had an estimated army of 5‚000‚000 men‚ they were on the verge of imminent collapse and the two atomic bombs that were dropped on them were not necessary to obtain Japan’s surrender. America’s primary reason for using the atomic bombs on Japan was to intimidate the Soviet Union so that the Soviet Union would stay out of the war with Japan and to demonstrate our world dominance‚ rather than dropping the bombs solely to induce Japan’s unconditional surrender. America wanted
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The atomic bomb dropped on Japan was the correlated decision of the president at the time‚ Harry Truman‚ and his chief advisors. While the pros and cons were weighed heavily‚ it was decided that the least blood shed would be wrought if we shed the most blood on the first strike. On August 6‚ 1945‚ the enola gay‚ a class B-29 heavy bomber‚ departed from Tinian‚ an island to the southeast of Japan‚ carrying a heavy payload which would effectively be the beginning of the end of Japan’s war against the
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