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1 day ago · By late 1941, many observers believed that hostilities between the United States and Japan were imminent. A Gallup poll just before the attack on Pearl Harbor found that 52% of Americans expected war with Japan, 27% did not, and 21% had no opinion.
- December 7, 1941; 81 years ago
I want to know how many Japanese died fighting against the Americans during WW2. I've seen numbers of Japanese casualties in WW2 around 2.000.000 but this seems to include those killed in mainland China. According to the Library of Congress 500.000 Japanese died in mainland China. That gives us a number of around 1.500.000 Japanese killed ...
1 day ago · In Asia and the Pacific, the number of people killed by Japanese troops remains contested. According to R.J. Rummel, the Japanese killed between 3 million and more than 10 million people, with the most probable case of almost 6,000,000 people.
- Allied victory
3 days ago · On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing 80,000 people instantly. The American people learned about the new weapon from a White House press release (Document D).
2 days ago · Formally, Japanese rule ended on 2 September 1945 upon the Japanese defeat in World War II in 1945. Postwar Korea was jointly occupied by Soviet and American forces, with political disagreements leading to the separation of the peninsula into two independent nations. This eventually escalated into the Korean War. Latin America
18 hours ago · The older Ikemoto was among 31 men killed when their C-46 transport plane hit a cliff while attempting to land in Okinawa, Japan, on August 13, 1945. "I'm just happy that he got recognized ...
4 days ago · During World War II, the United States rounded up more than 125,000 people of Japanese descent. The U.S. imprisoned those people inside what were called internment camps until the end of the war.
