1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Much of why Japanese surrender took so long to come through reverts back to the Samurai Tradition in Japan. ... According to the "Atlantic Charter," every nation could choose its own form of government, thus, if Japan were to surrender based on these terms, they would be able to retain the emperor, their God (Alperovitz). ... Even after the Atomic Bomb had been dropped on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a vote in the Japanese government still came up deadlocked between the hawks and the doves. ... Along with the superiority of the American forces, Japan was decimated; the American forces had defe...
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