HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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Why did the Japanese surrender?
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They knew they were defeated and agreed to surrender after the U.S. threatened them
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After the U.S. dropped bombs on Toyko
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After the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs. One in Hiroshima and one in Nagasaki.
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After the U.S. won the Battle of Midway
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -With defeat imminent, Japan’s leaders feared that without the imperial house, the state and their own power would be devalued and diminished in the eyes of the people, and that the state would ultimately disintegrate.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. Americans wanted to believe it, and the myth of nuclear weapons was born. Look at the facts.
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