From December 1941 until August 1945
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7th in 1941 and World War 2 officially started for the United States. Japan had been fighting long before that though. Japan had been after the South Pacific and China for a long time before that. Many say they started the war in 1937.
If Japan had never been bombed then so many people wouldn't have been killed in vain and so many people would have have been a whole family and no one would be sad. >.<
They didn't. By the time the USSR finished fighting Germany (by themselves because Churchill and FDR didn't want to help), the US had been fighting Japan for a while. The USSR did declare war on Japan after the Germans surrendered. Before the USSR could do anything, the US dropped it's two atomic bombs. The Japanese were rumored to have started peace negotiations with the USSR agreeing to act as the liason after the Little Boy bombing, but the Fat Man prevented it. Many say the US bombed Japan because they didn't want the USSR sweeping in as the hero.
Japan did NOT offer to surrender before the two atom bombs were dropped. It wasn't until AFTER the two bombs had been dropped and Russia's entrance into the war against Japan that Japan surrendered.
Japan did not actually start the war, it had been going on for two years before we were involved. But on December 7, 1941, they bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aiming to destroy our fleet before we could join. They almost succeeded.
They trained for years to fight and to use planes for attacks. They had been fighting for many years before that attack.
about 40years
The people of Hiroshima likely thought that they had been bombed by the Allies. Remember that by August 1945 most of Japan had been destroyed by Allied bombing. For almost three months the people of Japan had been bombed almost every day. Although Hiroshima had been spared from these bombings the people there would have just figured that their luck had run out.
It depends where you place the start of World War 2. Japan had been fighting a war in China for years before the "Pacific War" started and many towns and villages were bombed there. This was the main reason the USA placed economic sanctions on Japan which precipitated the attack on Hawaii. Japan also bombed many places such as; Pearl Harbour, various airfields and towns in the Philippines, Singapore, many parts of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Darwin (Australia), parts of Burma and Calcutta in India. Many islands in the Pacific Ocean were bombed as part of the expansion of the area held by Japanese forces. From the Aleutian Islands in the north, to Midway, Wake, Guam and further south to the Solomon Islands and Port Moresby (New Guinea). An attempt to bomb the USA from Japan was tried using balloons which killed a woman and some children in Oregon.
If he had been bombed I am sure he would have been frightened. I did not know that he was bombed
President Truman wanted to end the war and to collapse Japan's means to make war ever again.
yes, they had been informed that the bomb would produce "radium like" materials and the health effects of radium were well known.