US in WW2

Japan refused to surrender after her cities were burned to the ground and the bloody battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Dropping the Atomic Bombs was the ONLY way to get the Japanese people to surrender. It was either drop the Atomic Bombs and end the war in 1945, OR, INVADE Japan and lose hundreds of thousands or millions of people and prolong the war for another Year.

Pearl Harbor, Schofield Barracks, and Bellows Field were all bombed during the attack. However, Hickam Field (located adjacent to Pearl Harbor) and NAS Kaneohe (now an MCAS) were also attacked, as was Wheeler Army Airfield, so there were many more than just three military bases that were attacked.

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The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a very significant event in human history. Politically, it meant that Imperial Japan was finished and had no choice but to surrender, which it did. It also ushered in the nuclear age, and nuclear weapons have been the most important factor in international politics ever since that time. In economic terms, it meant that a lot of money was going to be spent by various nations in order to build nuclear weapons. A major defense industry was thereby created. There are many other consequences as well, too many to mention. Large events have many consequences, and the consequences have their own consequences, in an ever expanding sequence that propagates forever.

Short answer: Japan wasn't the biggest threat to the World, and the US Gov't made the (correct) decision to try to avoid fighting a two-front war. Germany was rapidly taking over Europe, and showed no signs of stopping unless the US could successfully intervene.

yes. The USS Arizona exploded and sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Jews migrated to Israel after WWII as it was their ancestral homeland, and the events of WWII had shown that Jews were not welcome in Europe. Jews had been migrating to what was then the British Mandate of Palestine (after WWI) for years before WWII, however, and "Palestine" had always had Jews living there.

Nothing. His only connection to the atomic bomb was to sign a letter written by Leo Szilard (the inventor of the atomic bomb, though Einstein did not know this then) that warned FDRthat Nazi Germany might do it first.

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To place any blame on the outbreak of World War Two on the United States is placing blame on the wrong nation. If Great Britain and France knew their policies of appeasement would fail to satisfy Nazi Germany, then they would have taken advantage of German military strength long before it became a vital threat. The Treaty of Versailles was a bad treaty, it added later on to German nationalism and eventually to Nazi fascism.Imperial Japan, whose emperor was treated as a god, already had problems just by it's own making. The emperor and his military dictators could have prospered as it does today, by using their skills at making war, to skills for building consumer products to compete in the world.

Stalin, dictator number 2 in cruelty, chose to make a treaty with Hitler, dictator number 1. We can charge off Mussolini, he gained by his alliance with Hitler, and when it came to war, Italy did little to threaten any nation, except for poor underdeveloped ones.

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Continued to fight the war, until the Emperor announced the surrender.

The graves are not at the beach itself but are located in Normandy at a special graveyard. There are close to 40,000 graves the last I heard. I could be wrong because some families have transferred their loved ones to their own nation.

Japan attacked China in the 1930's, Germany attacked Poland in 1939, then Japan attacked the US in 1941...global war.

At the time of the Peleliu operation, Task Force 38 was comprised of 15 carriers divided into four Task Groups. Task Group 38.1 consisted of Hornet (CV-12), Wasp (CV-18), Belleau Wood (CVL-24), and Cowpens (CVL-25); Task Group 38.2 consisted of Intrepid (CV-11), Bunker Hill (CV-17), Cabot (CVL-28), and Independence (CVL-22); Task Group 38.3 consisted of Essex (CV-9), Lexington (CV-16), Princeton (CVL-23), and Langley (CVL-27); Task Group 38.4 consisted of Enterprise (CV-6), Franklin (CV-13), and San Jacinto (CVL-30).

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If you are referring to the Atomic Bomb. the first one was dropped (tested) at Alamagordo, New Mexico on July 16th, 1945.

The Trinity test device on July 16 was not and could not be dropped (it had no ballistic casing and they wanted to take careful measurements on it) it was detonated on the top of a 100 foot steel tower. This was much lower than the altitude of the 2 airbursts over Japan resulting in the fireball touching ground, melting it and picking up significant amounts of sand which became radioactive fallout. The fallout from Trinity was likely 2 orders of magnitude worse than the bombs dropped on Japan.

The first Atomic Bomb actually dropped in the US was the 1951 Ranger Able shot (yield 0.5Kton), which opened the Nevada Test Site. All 5 shots in this series were airdrops from B-50 bombers, with yields from 0.5Kton to 22Kton.

See: Swords of Armageddon, by Chuck Hansen

the us did not give back okinowa until the early 70's. They still have a large base

Well lets see. Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor, a US military installation, so we retalitiated with Japan, who was already in the war. So the U.S. then dropped nukes on Japan then ended the war, because we are the shiznit.

japan launched a suprise assault on pearle harbor on dec 7th i believe. they bombed the smalll island which was at the time was home dock for many of Americas navel fleet. the bombing was unexpected an led to many ships of Americas fleet to be sunk killing many sailers. this act by japan is what brought USA into WW2.

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As far as I know, it didn't. All H-bomb detonations took place in peacetime, and I am unaware of any dropped from a bomber or delivered by a missile by any country. Two less-destructive A-bombs were dropped during WW2, on August 6 and August 9, 1945, by bombers of the US 509th Bomber Group. They were the only two nuclear bombs ever used in war. The first H-bombs were tested after the war, in 1946.