"<span>the number of casualties likely from an invasion of mainland Japan" is the best option from the list. Truman knew that without the bomb the Japanese were likely to fight until the last man.</span>
A lot of things did, in various places around the world. The events that jump out in my mind when those dates are mentioned are these:
<u>May 14th, 1948:</u>
The provisional government of the portion of the British Mandate for Palestine that was designated by the UN partition as reserved for Jewish administration declared that it was becoming a free and independent sovereign nation called Israel.
<u>May 15th, 1948:</u>
The massed armies of Syria, Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq rolled into Israel with big signs on the front of their tanks that read "Oh No You're Not !" .
Contents <span> [hide] </span><span><span>1Free Albania</span><span>2Belgium</span><span>3Brazil (1942–1945)</span><span><span>4British Empire and Commonwealth</span><span><span>4.1<span> Australia</span></span><span>4.2<span> Canada</span></span><span>4.3<span> India</span></span><span>4.4<span> New Zealand</span></span><span>4.5<span> Union of South Africa</span></span><span><span>4.6<span> United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland</span></span><span><span>4.6.1British Malaya</span><span>4.6.2<span> Newfoundland</span></span><span>4.6.3<span> British Mandate for Palestine</span></span><span>4.6.4<span> Southern Rhodesia</span></span></span></span></span></span><span>5Republic of China</span><span>6Free Czechoslovak Republic</span><span>7Kingdom of Denmark (1940–1945)</span><span>8Kingdom of Egypt</span><span>9Empire of Ethiopia</span><span><span>10French Third Republic (Until 1940)</span><span>10.1Free French Forces (and later Fighting France and Provisional government of the French Republic)</span></span><span>11Kingdom of Greece (1940–1945)</span><span>12Imperial State of Iran (after Anglo-Soviet Invasion)</span><span>13Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea</span><span>14Republic of Liberia</span><span>15Grand Duchy of Luxembourg</span><span>16United Mexican States</span><span>17Mongolian People's Republic</span><span>18Kingdom of the Netherlands (1940–1945)</span><span>19Kingdom of Norway</span><span><span>20Second Polish Republic</span><span>20.1Polish Government in Exile and Secret State</span></span><span>21Soviet Union (1941–1945)</span><span><span>22United States of America (1941–1945)</span><span><span>22.1European and North African Front</span><span>22.2Pacific Front</span><span>22.3Puerto Rico</span><span>22.4Commonwealth of the Philippines</span></span></span><span>23Kingdom of Yugoslavia</span><span>24See also</span><span>25<span>References</span></span></span>
Lincoln Steffens was considered a reformer specifically because he worked to expose problems in business and in politics.