AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
Question
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Germany was forced to surrender.
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Italy was forced to surrender.
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The Soviet Union was forced to surrender.
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Japan was forced to surrender.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nuclear weapons shocked Japan into surrendering at the end of World War II-except they didn’t. Japan surrendered because the Soviet Union entered the war. Japanese leaders said the bomb forced them to surrender because it was less embarrassing to say they had been defeated by a miracle weapon.
Detailed explanation-2: -“The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II. There can be no doubt of that. While they brought death and destruction on a horrifying scale, they averted even greater losses – American, English, and Japanese”.
Detailed explanation-3: -On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80, 000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.
Detailed explanation-4: -A combination of events such as the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet Unions invasion of Manchuria forced Japan to surrender in World War 2.
Detailed explanation-5: -The explicit reason was to swiftly end the war with Japan. But it was also intended to send a message to the Soviets. Ever since America dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945, the question has persisted: Was that magnitude of death and destruction really needed to end World War II?