The US only dropped the A-Bombs on Japan because they didn’t want the Soviets to gain even more post-war leverage, they killed civilians in the many tens of thousands just for political leverage.
… and to avoid a boots-on-ground invasion of the main landmass of Japan, which would have cost probably a million soldiers lives, and who knows how many Japanese civilians.
Japan had been holding out for a positive response from Soviet Union. The delusional high command thought they could craft aj alliance against the US.
After the USSR invaded, the leadership went into a tail spin. It would have been a matter of days before they would have surrendered.
The US did not want the USSR to push deeper into Manchuria and Korea, so they dropped the a-bombs.
An invasion wasnt necessary. A blockade and a week of fighting on the continent by the USSR would have sufficed.
Not quite. That’s the line they gave for justifying murdering a hundred thousand civilians, the reason was to stop the Soviets from gaining further influrnce, as they had just declared war on Japan and stood to gain even more post-war cred after defeating the Nazis.
The US only dropped the A-Bombs on Japan because they didn’t want the Soviets to gain even more post-war leverage, they killed civilians in the many tens of thousands just for political leverage.
… and to avoid a boots-on-ground invasion of the main landmass of Japan, which would have cost probably a million soldiers lives, and who knows how many Japanese civilians.
Japan had been holding out for a positive response from Soviet Union. The delusional high command thought they could craft aj alliance against the US. After the USSR invaded, the leadership went into a tail spin. It would have been a matter of days before they would have surrendered.
The US did not want the USSR to push deeper into Manchuria and Korea, so they dropped the a-bombs.
An invasion wasnt necessary. A blockade and a week of fighting on the continent by the USSR would have sufficed.
Not quite. That’s the line they gave for justifying murdering a hundred thousand civilians, the reason was to stop the Soviets from gaining further influrnce, as they had just declared war on Japan and stood to gain even more post-war cred after defeating the Nazis.
Ok, I assumed it was in retaliation for Pearl harbour?
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You mean the military target? As opposed to the civilian targets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
No. The firebombings of Tokyo more than made up for that.