Because an infantry invasion of Japan, would have resulted in <em>Far</em> more casualties for both the americans and the japanese. Than the dropping of an atomic bomb.
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Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, that was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. Just before 8 a.m. on that Sunday morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes descended on the base, where they managed to destroy or damage nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan
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Answer The decision reached in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) had allowed segregation in public school, but the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned that decision by declaring segregation to be unconstitutional
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St. Stephen's Tower
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The tower housing Big Ben was formally known as St. Stephen's Tower until 2012, when it was renamed Elizabeth Tower on the occasion of Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, celebrating 60 years on the British throne.
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The right answer is B.
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Post-WWI Germans had the feeling the Versailles peace agreement and its conditions were unfair. There was a sense in many people that Germany had not been delivered a crushing blow in the front, withdrawal of its forces was orderly. The war reparations imposed on Germany were seen as excessive and unjust. Together with a terrible economic situation - inflation, high unemployment rate, pauperization -, those feelings contributed to the rise of the Nazis who shrewdly exploited the insatisfaction of German masses in the 1930s.
