How did the fighting in iwo jima and okinawa affect the allies' pacific strategy? by causing the soviet union to send troops to
the pacific by causing u.s. admirals to abandon the island-hopping strategy for air assaults by influencing president truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on japan by encouraging the allies and japan to agree to a stalemate in the pacific nextreset
<span> by influencing president truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on japan
The comparatively high losses on Iwo Jima and Okinawa lead many U.S military leaders to believe a invasion of mainland Japan would cost (depending on the estimate) upwards of 250,000 American lives, with some estimates going over one Million. This influenced Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs in the interest of a Japanese surrender without a invasion, but also halting the Soviet advance into manchuria. </span>
