President Truman was the one who made the decision to use the atomic bomb, and one of the most admirable things about president Truman was that despite the scrutiny of the use of the atomic bomb, he stood his ground in the decision he made, he didn't try to push it onto someone else to better his popularity with the people as he quotes, "Let there be no mistake about it. ... The United States had already developed plans to invade Japan naming the plans, "Operation Downfall," and the execution of this plan had an estimate of 24,000 Japanese and American Soldiers dying every ...

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Manpower The German Army in the east drowned in "vast reservoirs of Soviet blood." ... Data shows the cold was not always as extreme as Hitler claimed, and in some regions "German forces were hardly affected" ; the weather was "only one factor of many." The "remarkable revival of Soviet manpower" was more important to the defense of Moscow than the cold. ... Stalin told Truman that the war was won with, "our blood, your steel." ...

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