Was the use of the A Bomb nessessary to end the USAs war with Japan
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Long Term Reasons for the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The War in the Pacific
As an island nation Japan evolved an elaborate social structure that many did not want to see 'Westernised" as a result of contact and trade with Europe and later with the United States. It therefore sealed its borders and tried to become entirely self-sufficient. But in the early decades of the 20th century, Japan was no longer able to rely solely on itself for food and raw materials. Many members of the Japanese ruling class knew that, for Japan to survive and prosper, it would have to modernise and adopt Western Technology. For many Japanese nationalists, however, the way to achieve economic and political stature was to establish an Empire in East Asia that would provide Japan with the resources it needed.
The Desire for an Empire had another source as well. Many Japanese were still rankled by the outcome of WW1. In that war Japan fought on the side of the Western allies primarily by providing weapons and ammunition. Although Japan was ceded some minor German territories in the Pacific in the peace treaty that followed the war, the nation's traditional warrior castle The Samurai felt that Japan had been relegated to second class status by the United States and Great Britain...