Surrender of Japan, 2 September 1945

  For nearly seven decades, the American public has accepted one version of the events that led to Japan’s surrender. By the middle of 1945, the war in Europe was over, and it was clear that the Japanese could hold no reasonable hope of victory. After years of grueling battle, fighting island to island across the Pacific, Japan’s Navy and Air Force were all but destroyed. The production of materiel was faltering, completely overmatched by American industry, and the Japanese people were starving. A full-scale invasion of Japan itself would mean hundreds of thousands of dead GIs, and, still, the Japanese leadership refused to surrender.  
   America unveiled a terrifying new weapon, dropping atomic bombs on Hirosh ima and Nagasaki( American airmen dropped Little Boy
 on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by Fat Man over Nagasaki on 9 August.). In a matter of days, the Japanese submitted, bringing the fighting, finally, to a close.

 (^ the Japanese surrender) 
 On Aug. 6, the United States marks the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing’s mixed legacy. The leader of our democracy purposefully executed civilians on a mass scale. Yet the bombing also ended the deadliest human conflicts.







source:http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/whistory.   (^ the Japanese surrender)hy_did_japan_surrender/?page=1  wiki:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki