1. The Bombing of Hiroshima
In July, when the general learned that Japan had asked Russia to negotiate surrender with United stated, he told his staff: "This is it. ... The United States was worried about an emerging Russian threat. ... "The demonstration of the bomb," Byrnes thought, "might impress Russia with America's military might (Giovannitti and Freed 65-6)." ... If that was the case why did the United States attack Japan and not Russia? ... Ever since the first contact between the English settlers and the Powhatans in Virginia in 1607, a then the arrival of Africans in 1619, race has been significant in ...
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