AMH 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Cuban Missile Crisis, Civil Rights Congress, Nikita Khrushchev
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Happens right at the end of the war. Consider many things but dropping bomb is just one of them. Chose this option because it ended up with less casualties. Harry truman president when all of the bombing was happening. We will help you improve your economy but you must give up your emperor. Japanese rejected this but later had to accept it after the bomb. Hiroshima was more deadly because it was on flat land. Nagasaki the death toll is much less than hiroshima because there were mountains to kind of stop the bomb. Japanese surrender the atomic bombs are one reason they surrender but also because they are afraid of the soviets. Term that seperates the east and the west. After the soviet union gets the atomic bomb, everyone keeps getting more and more bombs. Basically everyone is trying to out number eachother with how many bombs they have. In marshall island, almost destroys the whole island chain.
