America's Demise In World War II

During March of 1945, the war in Europe was finally over. Germany surrendered to the Allies, and Hitler was out of the picture entirely. With the war in the east finished, the US now focused on defeating Japan in the Pacific. Harry S. Truman, the president and Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces at the end of the war, decided to use the first and second atomic bombs on Japan to end the war all together. He chose to do so due to America’s need to end the war and Japan’s resilience against surrendering even though the effects would be detrimental to Japan and change warfare completely. The United States of America entered World War Two on December 7, 1941 because of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. After just below three and a half years of fighting on European soil, the war on the eastern theater was over. The Allies had won and could now lick their wounds as soldiers returned home to their families, but unlike their allies, the United States was still in the middle of a war with Japan. The red, white, and blue was on the front foot and could sense victory was imminent. To insure that the war would not be drawn out, the
The United States first took Iwo Jima, an island seven hundred mile from Japan, and then took Okinawa, an island three hundred fifty miles closer to Japan. The Japanese did not give these islands up easily though; the US lost a combined total of thirty-seven thousand men and hospitable many more wounded. Japan was now blockaded and bombed daily but refused to surrender to the Americans and offered no form of compromise. The Japanese would continue fighting until every last soldier was dead. With the invasion of the Japanese mainland out of the question due to an estimation of casualties over a million, the atomic bomb seemed like the only option to scare Japan enough to end the war entirely. By ending the war, Truman would save many American soldiers’