AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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Question
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Why did President Harry Truman decide to bomb the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945?
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to win re-election following the war.
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to instill fear in the Soviet Union, who also had a bomb.
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to retaliate against Japan for attacking Pearl Harbor.
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to prevent a ground invasion of Japan that could have cost a million American lives.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Truman did not seek to destroy Japanese culture or people; the goal was to destroy Japan’s ability to make war. So, on the morning of August 6, 1945, the American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the world’s first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima.
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