WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Question
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One of the justifications used by advisors and Truman to say that the dropping of the atomic bomb was right and OK against Japan?
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An invasion would likely cost maybe a million American lives that could be saved by dropping the bomb.
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Japan had beat and killed US prisoners of war so it was OK to take revenge.
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Japan had launched a sneak attack against the US so it was OK to get revenge.
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There are no rules in war.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Truman and his military advisers assumed that a ground invasion would “be opposed not only by the available organized military forces of the Empire, but also by a fanatically hostile population.” Documents discovered after the war indicated that they were right.
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