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The Atomic Bomb

The Atomic Bomb. Peace Before the Bomb. In April 1945 a new Japanese cabinet formed Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo Army Minister Korechika Anami New Cabinet decided to try and create a peace accord with the US. Japanese Peace Proposal.

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The Atomic Bomb

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  1. The Atomic Bomb

  2. Peace Before the Bomb • In April 1945 a new Japanese cabinet formed • Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki • Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo • Army Minister Korechika Anami • New Cabinet decided to try and create a peace accord with the US

  3. Japanese Peace Proposal • Anami insited that Japan make a plan that created peace but did not say that Japan had been defeated • This proposal would allow • Japan to keep possesion of a fairly large empire • Would allow for their army to withdraw from over sea territories • Retain some oversea territories • Would have no Americans regulating what they did • No war crimes would be punished

  4. Why the US Said No • Allowed Japan to keep their weapons and troops • Did not want Japan to be like Germany after WWI • Japan wanted to dodge their way out of defeat • Meaning that they just want to recover, rebuild and try again • War Crimes • Japanese committed horrible crimes against the US and Korean prisoners • Infecting them with diseases torture, starvation • Overall most of the prisoner camps were just as bad if not worse as the Holocaust camps in Germany • Wanted the people responsible to be held for trial

  5. Resources Ziff, John, and Jill McCaffrey. The Bombing of Hiroshima. Philadelphia: Chelsea      House Publishers, 2001. Print.

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