preview

Japanese Dbq Essay

Decent Essays

Contention between the United States and Japan escalated gradually throughout the 1930s and 1940s, especially during the years succeeding the end of the Great Depression and the closing of World War II. However, a significant amount of problems that existed between the United States and Japan started over relations with other nations. The United States opposed Japanese invasions that were intended to harm Northeast China and the rise of Japanese militants in the country, due to the United States having a longstanding friendship with China. The U.S.’ opinion of Japan worsened after Chinese and Japanese troops fought near Beijing. This issue led to the United States Roosevelt attempting to ease Japanese aggression in hopes that Tokyo would not be provoked to go to war before the United States could create the Two-Ocean Navy Act, which supported the construction of combat ships. …show more content…

The U.S. joint chiefs feared that it would take several months of fighting and over a hundred thousand causalities before the war would end. Roosevelt’s Vice President, Harry S. Truman, would take the office and in response to Japan ordered the detonation of an atomic bomb, if the Japanese did not surrender before August 3. The next day, Truman warned the Japanese in the Potsdam Declaration that Japan would face prompt destruction, to which the Japanese refused to surrender. On August 6, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay left the Marianas islands of Tinian and dropped a uranium fused bomb on the town of Hiroshima. On August 8, U.S. planes warned Japan another bomb would be dropped and on the following day a plutonium bomb flattened Nagasaki bringing the death toll in Japan a little under one-hundred thousand persons. On August 14, the Japanese accepted the United States terms of surrender, and the war was pronounced

Get Access