They don't teach this in school
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Yeah but the US wanted unconditional surrender
The conditions they got were the same the Japanese proposed in Switzerland in any case.
If a statesman had been President in 1944, 30,000 American lives would not have been lost.
In a way, this is much like the quiet man who just wants to be left alone. Japan was a MENACE for years before we got involved. Once Pearl Harbor roused us, we weren’t going to accept anything other than Japan NEVER being able to wage an offensive war at least in their lifetimes.
There was never going to be a statesman back channel surrender. Japan had lost the ability to strike the US mainland by then, and no one was in a peaceful mood.
Commies in the US state dept. Pretty much forced the Japanese to attack us. Stalin was in a panic,he needed the troops he had facing the japs,moved to the west to fight Hitler.
That's the reason we're told, but not the real reason. Truman was determined to see the Manhattan Project succeed after seeing just how much money had been pumped into the program.