HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Walter Lippmann, Victory Over Japan Day, Anti-Communism
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The war in the pacific: u. s. wanted to have an island-hopping campaign and force. But stalin doesn"t like this idea: soviets want to rebuild their economy and industry therefore they want to use germany"s resources from, they will not end the war unless japan provides an factories unconditional surrender. Led by general leslie groves and oppenheimer, and. They had more power than any other country ever along with a few english scientists the u. s. developed the atomic bomb had military capacity increased the world. They wanted to test the weapon bright as several fundamentally changed that day - weapon of unprecedented power hundred suns. Conventional invasion of japan would cost hundreds of thousands of american lives. Therefore, he decides to use the bombs since japan will not surrender. U. s. drops flyers warning japanese people to tell the emperor to surrender before dropping the first bomb but the emperor doesn"t surrender killing 70000 people instantly.
