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Military Reasons for the Use of the Atomic Bomb - Coggle Diagram
Military Reasons for the Use of the Atomic Bomb
End the War quickly
Japan wouldn't surrender
had the resources to sustain their emire and defend themselves against the USA
75% of the world’s natural rubber reserves
60% of tin reserves, tons of oil
outnumbered the USA in ships
couldn't lose them because the USA was faster
They kept fighting harder
kamikazes
pilots that would crash their planes into American ships and bases
The USA didn't want the battles to kept going
american soldirs were getting killed
Japanese army leaders did not want surrender
War Minister Korechika Anami
Army Chief of Staff General Yoshijirō Umezu
commited to battle for homeland
Navy Chief of Staff Soemu Toyoda
The USA suggested Japan to surrender
they answered was not clear
the USA took their answer as a "No"
supposed the war wouldn't if they didn't put an end to it
Truman: "If the Japanese insist on continuing resistance beyond the point of reason, their country will suffer the same destruction as Germany…"
Reduce casualties
Island hoping
goal: direct attack on Japan's islands
the number of american deaths kept increasing
the Japanese fought harder
men, woman and kids were prepared to go to war
woudln't stop, so more people were being killed
casualties
Guadalcanal (August 1942)
USA - 7,100 men
Japan - 31,000 men
Battle of Iwo Jima (Feb-March 1945)
USA - 23,000
Japan - 20,000
Battle of Okinawa (April-May 1945)
USA - 50,000
Japan - 100,000
Operation downfall
Taking over Japan
Would take 2-4million american lifes
(and 5-10 million Japanese)
Using the bomb would kill less people
A-Bomb in Hiroshima
70,000 + 100,000
A-Bomb in Nagasaki
80,000
No Americans would die
US Government actions
President Truman
didn't know the impact the bomb would have
thought it was another regular weapon
was told of a weapon that would end the war
‘There can be no peace in the world until the military power of Japan is destroyed…"
Secretary of War Harry L. Stimson
”this deliberate, premeditated destruction was our least abhorrent choice”
Roosevelt dies
Secretly developing the Manhattan Project
Harry Truman didn't know
Stalin knew about it before him
took 120,000 people and $2 billion
Needed to use the weapon
couldn't waste all that money