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Why didn't Truman allow the Japanese to make a conditional surrender with the terms that they could keep their Emperorknowing that this would have allowed the war to end in June 1945?
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Who says he wouldn't have? In June 1945 the Japanese were bitterly defending Okinawa, engaging in mass Kamikaze attacks on the American fleet, and showing not the slightest sign of any inclination to surrender on any terms. The Japanese still had millions of undefeated troops in China. The war had been lost to the Japanese since Midway, in June 1942, to all of them who were able to face the facts unemotionally. So why did they wait more than three years, and endure two atomic bombings before they voiced a desire to end it?
There is a school of revisionist "historians" that have tried to claim in recent years that Japan WANTED to surrender, had made the decision TO surrender, and, instead of directly informing the US of this decision, were trying to go through the Russians or the Swedes or some other intermediary to get the word through. I do not think the historical evidence supports any of these propositions, but even so, assuming that they are true, if the Japanese wanted to surrender, shouldn't they have let the US know that simple fact? There is no doubt whatsoever that the US had no information at all of any intention to end the war by Japan. The US was actively involved in planning and preparing for the next two invasions, which were to be in the Home Islands, in November 1945 and March 1946.
In July 1945, while at the Potsdam Conference, Truman issued the "Potsdam Declaration" to the Japanese, after he had been informed of the successful test of the atomic bomb. Truman called on Japan for immediate surrender, or promised they would face "prompt and utter destruction", "the like of which the world has never seen". The Japanese made no reply at all. None. Zero, Nada, Zip. Zilch.
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Why was the air force captain executed by the Japanese?
The Japanese brutally murdered thousands of military prisoners of war because they wanted to intimidate all other POWs and Japan's enemies. The Japanese military did not believe in surrender and therefore did not respect any person that allowed themselves to be captured. Bottom Line: The Japanese military, especially the Army, behaved as evil barbarians without respect for human life of enemy civilians or military.
How did the atomic bomb save American lives?
It shortend the war by forcing the Japanese to surrender under U.S. terms. The Japanese people were not going to give up, they fought to the very end, but had it not been for the devastation of the atomic attacks we might still be fighting.Also if president Truman allowed the war to go on as it was, the allies would invade Japan and more soldiers would be killed.
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That soldiers be allowed to keep horses for farming
What did the surrender terms of the confederate commander Robert E Lee's include?
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World War II, the American Civil War and the French Revolution are examples of "total war". The enemy had to be annihilated, and no "terms of surrender" were allowed; surrender had to be unconditional. The defeated had no say at all in what happened next. During the American Civil War, Sherman's "March to the Sea" cut the Confederacy in half; the city of Atlanta was burned to the ground. In World War II, all of Germany was devastated. In Japan, most Japanese cities were fire-bombed, and two cities were destroyed with nuclear weapons.
What exception to unconditional surrender were the Japanese allowed?
The Japanese could keep Emperor Hirohito .
Why did Truman not want the Japanese to surrender with the Soviets help?
Because they attached conditions to their surrender and the Allied Forces wanted an unconditional surrender. In the end they compromised. Truman allowed Emperor Hirohito remain a figurehead Emperor since the Japanese worshiped him as a god.
What concessions did the Japanese made to the allied powers during ww2?
The terms were for unconditional surrender, but the Japanese were allowed to keep Emperor Hirohito as a figurehead. The treaty called for the Japanese to give up their territory, surrender all their arms, all their armed forces must cease fighting, and all civilian and military personnel must be released from captivity.
After world war 2 the Japanese emperor was?
Although Germany & Japan were ordered to surrender UNCONDITIONALLY; The US compromised, with Japan, and allowed Hirohito to remain Japan's Emperor.
Which president authorized the bombing of Japanese cities?
The most talented scientists made the bomb. The U.S. President authorized and allowed it to be made. It was made to make the Japanese surrender. The bomb was called Little Boy.
What was keeping the japanese from surrendering in 1945?
Byrnes did not want to publicly offer Japan their main peace condition: retention of their emperor, whom the Japanese believed to be a god. He was worried about the administration's public popularity if Truman allowed Japan to keep their emperor in return for Japan's surrender.
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Only Japanese arts were allowed.
Did japan take heed to the warning about the nuclear threat to Hiroshima from the US?
The Japanese civilians wanted to know that their emperor would be allowed to stay in power of they surrendered to the United States. Their surrender guidelines were virtually the same as the Americans and Japan was basically defeated already, they were ready to surrender before the bomb was dropped.
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Why was the air force captain executed by the Japanese?
The Japanese brutally murdered thousands of military prisoners of war because they wanted to intimidate all other POWs and Japan's enemies. The Japanese military did not believe in surrender and therefore did not respect any person that allowed themselves to be captured. Bottom Line: The Japanese military, especially the Army, behaved as evil barbarians without respect for human life of enemy civilians or military.
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