The Japanese forced the United States’ hand into war after they bombarded Pearl Harbor until its destruction on December 7, 1941; but from this day of infamy, the Japanese would soon realize what they had done: They had awakened the notorious US army. Moving forward, they would continue earning recognition until they fought in the Pacific Theater, which was the primary battlefield for Japanese-American warfare. More specifically the Pacific Theater, in geographical terms, it can be described as most of the area between the west coast of the United States and Japan’s eastern coast down to roughly Australia’s northern coast. Air Planes were the newest invention used militarily in the decades leading up to and during the war, as a result they
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Pictures drawing human flesh seemingly melting off a body and an entire city placed in ruin are alongside a table of estimated casualties from the bombs which are said to be around 135,000 in Hiroshima and 64,000 in Nagasaki (Doc 5). The US Government's unwillingness to give any potential leeway for a response or Surrender, is only proof that they had no intention of ending the war without large casualties. There is not much proof for the atomic bombs causing the surrender of Japanese forces, since they were also harshly bombed in tokyo, where their leader was staying during the times of these attacks. An excerpt from the memoirs of General H.H. Arnold elaborates on the B-29 attacks of Tokyo and how they firstly killed many more than the atomic bombs did and secondly how the Japanese could have been persuaded by these events rather than that of the atomic bombs (Doc 7). This solidifies the overall understanding of how there were many ways that the Japanese could have surrendered from, and without the use of a second nuclear
Pictures drawing human flesh seemingly melting off a body and an entire city placed in ruin are alongside a table of estimated casualties from the bombs which are said to be around 135,000 in Hiroshima and 64,000 in Nagasaki (Doc 5). The US Government's unwillingness to give any potential leeway for a response or Surrender, is only proof that they had no intention of ending the war without large casualties. There is not much proof for the atomic bombs causing the surrender of Japanese forces, since they were also harshly bombed in tokyo, where their leader was staying during the times of these attacks. An excerpt from the memoirs of General H.H. Arnold elaborates on the B-29 attacks of Tokyo and how they firstly killed many more than the atomic bombs did and secondly how the Japanese could have been persuaded by these events rather than that of the atomic bombs (Doc 7). This solidifies the overall understanding of how there were many ways that the Japanese could have surrendered from, and without the use of a second nuclear