A New Perspective

[David Morris]

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/08/why-did-world-war-ii-end-2/

August 6: Hiroshima bomb dropped.

August 8: Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria.

August 9: Nagasaki bomb dropped.

August 10: Emperor Hirohito breaks the cabinet deadlock and decides that
Japan must surrender.

So what really caused the Japanese to finally give up? Was it America’s
atomic bombs, or was it the Soviet Union’s entrance into the Pacific war?