President Truman had a very difficult decision to make in terms of dropping the atomic bomb. Before dropping the bomb, Truman was hoping to get an unconditional surrender from Japan after the demands made at the Potsdam Conference. However, Japan refused.
Instead of dropping the atomic bomb, he also considered an invasion of mainland Japan. However, this invasion was estimated to have millions of casualties total and would have resulted in the deaths of thousands of Allied forces and Japanese military personnel.
Ultimately Truman decides to drop bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II. Even though this was a weapon of massive destruction, he argued that this actually saved lives. He used the estimated number of deaths/casualties from the possible land invasion to justify his decision.
x/5 - g = a (add g to each side)
x/5 = a + g (multiply 5 to each side)
x = 5 (a + g)
The correct answer is D) Germany was allowed to keep many of the regions along its borders.
<em>The sentence that is </em><u><em>not </em></u><em>a major provision of the Treaty of Versailles is “Germany was allowed to keep many of the regions along its borders.”
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At the end of World War I, on June 28, 1919, the Allies and Germany signed a document called “Treaty of Versailles” in the Versailles Palace, in France. Germany signed under protest because all the blame was on them, had to repair all the damage done, and the provisions were too rigid. U.S. President Wilson did not ratify the Treaty. Under the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was not allowed to keep many of the regions along
