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.
<u>The correct answer is D. Very significant because millions of people died around the world. </u>The Second World War had terrible human consequences, since with it disappeared 3% of the world population that corresponded to about 78 million people, who perished in concentration camps, in the midst of bombings or on the battlefield.
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In the post-revolutionary years, a whole generation of American thinkers would ... Influenced as it was by the British and French, American Enlightenment thought ... Thomas Jefferson was strongly influenced by John Locke's social contract ... view that republican ideas were a formative influence on American Enlightenment
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