WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE D DAY INVASION
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It showed that the United States could take over Japan.
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It showed that the United States was very advanced.
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It caused the Germans to give up.
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It caused the Japanese to give up.
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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: -Combined with the Soviet entry into the conflict, the atom bombs brought about Japan’s surrender within a few days. The bomb was necessary to accomplish Truman’s primary objectives of forcing a prompt Japanese surrender and saving American lives, perhaps thousands of them.
Detailed explanation-3: -Summary of Possible Reasons: Simply using the bomb because it existed and to test its effects. Impressing the Soviet Union. A response to Pearl Harbor. Forcing Japan to surrender.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the reason for Japan’s surrender and the end of World War II.