It was the immensely successful Soviet military occupation of Manchuria, North Korea, southern Sakhalin Island and the Kurile Islands which convinced Japanese leaders to surrender to the U.S.
I agreed with you up until the part where you needed to demonize China. The fact that the U.S. government has committed far more crimes on every continent except Australia and Antarctica than the CCP but somehow the CCP's existence is somehow regretted?
I have sent this article to my son, urging him to read it. His mother is half-Japanese and always told him the WW2 history taught in U.S. schools is farcical. Thanks for the exhaustive lesson exposing shameful truths of FDR and Truman.
You're very welcome. I believe it is the role of every military historian to dig past war propaganda myths and expose the truth no matter how troubling it may be if we have any hope to learn from the terrible mistakes of past leaders and not repeat them. The atomic bombings of Japan were actually the subject of my 20 page senior paper when I graduated from college three decades ago so this issue has long been of great concern to me.
Is your senior paper available anywhere? I would love to read it. I too was taught the conventional view that the atomic bombings were what caused Japan to surrender.
I agreed with you up until the part where you needed to demonize China. The fact that the U.S. government has committed far more crimes on every continent except Australia and Antarctica than the CCP but somehow the CCP's existence is somehow regretted?
I have sent this article to my son, urging him to read it. His mother is half-Japanese and always told him the WW2 history taught in U.S. schools is farcical. Thanks for the exhaustive lesson exposing shameful truths of FDR and Truman.
You're very welcome. I believe it is the role of every military historian to dig past war propaganda myths and expose the truth no matter how troubling it may be if we have any hope to learn from the terrible mistakes of past leaders and not repeat them. The atomic bombings of Japan were actually the subject of my 20 page senior paper when I graduated from college three decades ago so this issue has long been of great concern to me.
Is your senior paper available anywhere? I would love to read it. I too was taught the conventional view that the atomic bombings were what caused Japan to surrender.