How did the US defeat Japan in Worl War 2?

Answer 1

When the US dropped the first and second nuclear bombs, this broke the back of the Japanese.

The Allies, composed of Australia, the US, the Netherlands, and Great Britain simply were better led, had better equipment, and had equipment that protected their soldiers better than the Japanese.

The Japanese lost huge numbers of personnel, planes, and ships, but there are three overriding reasons that the Japanese lost the war. First, they tried a secret attack on the island of Midway, but the Allied forces, mainly the US, found out about it and were waiting and ready to fight when the Japanese ships arrived. Four out of the five Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk north of Midway, along with cruisers and destroyers.

The second reason that the Japanese lost the war is due to the US cryptographers' ability to 'crack' enough of the Japanese radio codes to have a good idea what they were planning most of the time. Examples: The cryptographers found out about the Midway attack by Admiral Nagumo in time to station a task force of ships to wait for the Japanese to show up. Later in the war, the US cryptographers learned that Yamamoto Isoroku, the Japanese Navy's commander and best planner, was flying to the South Pacific to visit his commanders there. His airplane was, as a result, shot down, killing Admiral Yamamoto.

Third, the US had by FAR the more effective submarine force. The Japanese planners had totally forgotten about what a determined submarine war could do. As a result, the US submarine fleet sank millions of tons of Japanese shipping, including warships, fuel ships, ammunition ships, and troop ships.

Answer 2

The war against Japan was a NAVAL WAR. Land battles were fought, but the Japanese and American navies had to do battle around the islands. Which ever navy won the battle, would ultimately win, it didn't matter what army won or lost on the island. Example: If the Japanese Navy won, then it now controlled the waters surrounding the island; if the US Marines (or Army) won on land, on the island, then they could be starved into surrender...since they could no longer be re-supplied. The ulitimate weapon at sea became the aircraft carrier during WWII, it replaced the battleship as "THE CAPITAL" ship (even though battleships could still be called capital ships). The US Navy held the line against Japan with it's Navy...which used the aircraft carrier. The carriers had been conveniently running errands (delivering aircraft to shore bases, etc.) during the Pearl Harbor attack, and thus NO CARRIERS were lost or damaged on 07 Dec 1941. The US Navy possessed approximately 7 fleet carriers prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, if they had been at Pearl, instead of the battleships (which were sunk): the battles at Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, Santa Cruz, etc. would have been quit different!

Answer 3

We dropped 2 atomic bombs on them and they surrendered. We had dropped one first and they didnt surrender, and they didnt think we had another and they were wrong. And after the second bomb, they surrendered.

Harry S. Truman also had the choice of island hoping and at some point attacking Japan

Answer 4

They dropped the Atomic Bomb 'Little Boy' onto the town of Hiroshima, and 'Fat Man' onto Nagasaki. This prompted Japan to surrender almost unconditionally. Many debate as to whether it ended the war, or just ended it sooner.

Answer 5

First off Japan was suffering all of the countries in the allies made an embargo on japan so they had major shortages also we dropped two atomic bombs on them and that made an impact

pun intended

Answer 6

a combined effort of the allies and the detonation of atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagaski

Answer 7

The bombing of Pearl Harbor