plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan and killed 70,000 people, 140,000 more died from radiation by the end of 1945 and thousands more died in the following five years. A few days later, the U.S dropped another bomb on Nagasaki that killed 70,000 people. That same day, the Soviet Union sought war on Japan and invaded Manchuria; Japan surrendered. Japanese forces resisted against America’s advance in the Pacific.Truman’s advisers warned him that an invasion of Japan at this time would cost the lives of 250,000 or more of their troops. However, the U.S. did not plan to invade until 1946. The use of the atomic bomb was an ending point to the way that World War II was fought. This way of war cost millions of civilian lives. Compared to World War I, in which 90 percent of deaths were military personnel, in World War II, 20 million of the 50 million who died were …show more content…
In 1945, Stalin agreed to enter the war on Japan, allow free elections there and include non-communists in the pro-Soviet Polish government. However, Stalin was going to make Eastern Europe communist and the Allies did not like that. Churchill resisted U.S. pressure and made separate, private deals with Stalin to split Eastern and Southern Europe into separate spheres. Britain also fought against American efforts to take control over the postwar global economy.In July 1945, delegations from 45 nations met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and switched the British pound with the U.S. dollar as the main currency for international exchange. Bretton Woods brought back the link between the dollar and gold and set other national currencies at a certain rate in relation to the U.S. dollar. This meeting also created two financial institutions, The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The World Bank provided money for developing nations and helped to rebuild Europe and the International Monetary Fund prevented governments from devaluing their currencies for trading