In world war 2 why did United States drop the bomb on Japan and not in Germany as it was the root cause ofwar?

Answer 1

The atomic bomb was not fully operatonal before the defeat of Germany, plus it was fairly obvious that Germany was going to lose through conventional warfare. In Japan, however, the US feared it would face a protracted ground war without alllies (remember, we had England, Russia, et al in Germany).

Answer 2

Germany had already surrendered by the time the Atomic Bomb was operational.

Japan was given a waring that we were going to drop a bomb so big it would destroy an entire city if they did not surrender. The Emperor did not believe us. Hiroshima was destroyed soon after. We then asked for the unconditional surrender again for Imperial Japan, telling them that another city would be destroyed if they did not comply. Again the Emperor said no. Nagasaki was destroyed. Once again, unconditional surrender was asked for, and the price this time was that we were going to destroy Tokyo. Japan surrendered, unconditionally.

Read that again. The Japanese were warned, prior to both bombs. They were told what would happen, they ignored the warning, even the second time after they saw the destruction the warning was ignored.

Revisionist history amuses me. There was no revenge in the dropping of the bombs. Fire bombing cities in Japan and the massive bombing campaigns in Germany killed more people than those two bombs. The fact that it was just two bombs that destroyed two cities must be the reason for the uproar.

Had the Allies decided not to use the Bomb, it was estimated over One Million people would have died in the invasion and it might have taken another year to accomplish the same thing that was accomplished in a week, with two aircraft and two bombs.

Germany was the root cause of the war in Europe. Japan was wreaking havoc all over the Pacific and Asian continent. The Japanese are still not liked very well, borderline hatred, for what thier soldiers did to people in Korea, China and other countries.

America did not ask to be at war with Japan; Japan attacked America. A sneak attack. What happened at the end of WWII in Japan was a direct result of Japan's actions and inactions. They continued the war failed to surrender. Had they surrendered when it was told to them that the bomb would first be dropped, we would not be having this conversation on the how's and why's of the Atomic bomb being used.

Answer 3

First of all. Yes, Germany had all ready been defeated by that time and there was no need of bombing Germany. On the other hand Japan was still aggressive, and as known, an alley of Germany. A-bomb was dropped, cos invading Japan would've costed too many lives of American soldiers. Japan had the kind of soldiers like there was in the Vietnam - It was not possible too make difference between the soldier and civilians. Japan soldiers had an advantage.
But. Japan was also being bombed, because it was affliting US-A's politics. Why had Japan turned against United States? It seems to me that its the greed of other countries, including United States, and isolation politics against Japan. During the Civil war of China, there wasn't only the aim of helping chinese, but there were very much self-interest involved. It was about, who gets bigger pile...

Answer 4

Germany for all intents and purposes started the war in Europe...
Japan started her war in Asia. Technically both are allies...but a deeper political analysis will show that neither really cared about the other's actions (otherwise they would have helped each other more often). Germany was beaten in May 1945 when the Soviet armies reached Berlin, no chance to use the Bomb on them. In August 1945 Japan was demanded to surrender unconditionally...Japan refused. Hiroshima was thus targeted (for shock effect) as the first target of an A-Bomb. Japan still refused a second demand for surrender, Nagasaki was hit (again for shock effect). A third threat to hit Tokyo finally managed to crack the hardliners and resulted in Japan's surrender. Thus the bombs were used to hasten Japan's capitulation which would have otherwise been won by a costly invasion of Japan.

Answer 5

Germany was no more the "root" cause of WW II then Japan.

As a few other posters had mentioned, Germany had already surrendered by the time the Bomb was fully functional, but that only spared Germany the radiation. In 1945 the German city of Dresden was firebombed and in that one night of bombing an area of 15 square kilometres was totally destroyed, among that: 14,000 homes, 72 schools, 22 hospitals, 18 churches, 5 theatres, 50 banks and insurance companies, 31 department stores, 31 large hotels, 62 administration buildings as well as factories such as the Ihagee camera works. In total there were 222,000 apartments in the city. 75,000 of them were totally destroyed, and between 25,000 to more than 60,000 men, women and children were burned to death. Dresden was not an isolated indecent.

The reason given for the bombing of a civilian city was to cut vital communications.

I guess they didn't have "smart' bombs back then.

Answer 6

First off as many have said the bomb wasn't ready in time to use on Germany.

Japan had declared that it would use every last citizen to fight American invasions....thereby making civilians military targets as far as i am concerned. Also there was a growing anti war sentiment in America, with the defeat of Germany, Americans considered the matter closed. Truman/FDR knew he/they couldn't end the war without the unconditional surrender of Japan because Japan would start another war later. He needed to end the war quickly before he lost too much support. Also a long bloody battle involving many American casualties wasn't appealing. And for the record the first atomic weapons were tested in the desert here in America, do you think we would drop the bomb without testing it?

Answer 7

I think that by the time the United States developed the atomic bomb, Germany had already been reduced to powerlessness by conventional warfare and only Japan was still left in the war.

Answer 8

The war in Europe was over before the bomb was ready.

The bomb was used on Japan to bring the war to a swift end, which it did. While many lives were lost, many more were saved by ending the war as quickly as possilbe.

George W. Bush was elected president by the people of the United States of America.

Answer 9

Germany already surrendered.. And Japan was not likely to do so. The Americans wanted to avoid another long-lasting war (think of all the islands there) and knew that surrender was not a choice for the Japanese. So they decided to drop the bomb.

Answer 10

The bombs were dropped on Japan because at that time, Germany was already under the control of the Allies when the bomb was completely developed. Sad for Japan because it was in their country that the testing was done.