Roosevelt and company ignored the warnings on Japan.. planes in the air and Sunday morning... attack was horrible.
No matter what was going on ... it was Truman who had the guts to do the unthinkable. Not once, but twice. Japan would never have surrendered otherwise. They were on a world dominion.
They were called Japs and hated by the people in the US. That bombing they did that morning did wake a sleeping giant. It was years before Japan was thought of in a favorable fashion.
Items made in Japan back when.. were considered junk.
They got smart and made education important...
And they went tech all the way.
Today education is the #1 important item for Asian kids.
The atomic bombs didn’t force Japan to surrender. Stalin did. He was within weeks of launching an invasion into northern Japan while the allies were getting ready to invade southern Japan. With a million soldiers in the homeland and a civilian populace willing to sacrifice themselves for the emperor, the Japanese warlords thought they could fight one great power to a standstill and force an armistice, but not two great powers on opposing fronts. That way lay disaster and utter destruction. The atomic bombs were horrible weapons but conventonal bombing had killed far more in single raids and every major city (except two) had already been reduced to rubble. The warlords would have been content to withstand a century of atomic bombing as long as the power structure and the emperor were spared. Two simultaneous invasions would have been the end of everything.
So says the wise and all seeing frnewsjunkie so it must be true. /s