PugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · 3 months agoJapanese schoolgirls training with a machinegun for the anticipated American invasion of Japan, WW2, 1945media.kbin.socialimagemessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1391arrow-down111
arrow-up1380arrow-down1imageJapanese schoolgirls training with a machinegun for the anticipated American invasion of Japan, WW2, 1945media.kbin.socialPugJesus@kbin.socialM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square83fedilink
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·3 months agoThe US accepts Japan’s conditional surrender, the one that Japan was sending in hopes that the US would offer them a better deal now than after the USSR finished kicking them off the mainland.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 months agoGeopolitically it was beneficial for the US to end the war without the Soviets getting involved, because then we’d have had two Iron Curtains
The US accepts Japan’s conditional surrender, the one that Japan was sending in hopes that the US would offer them a better deal now than after the USSR finished kicking them off the mainland.
Geopolitically it was beneficial for the US to end the war without the Soviets getting involved, because then we’d have had two Iron Curtains