During this march, an estimated 5,200 POW lives were lost to cruel treatment of prisoners. ... Even though some critics believed choosing Hiroshima and Nagasaki as target cities for retaliation for the Bataan Death March and Pearl Harbor was inhumane, the truth is that it had to be done to make up for Japan's role in bringing the United States into the war. ... After the public knew how ruthless the Japanese were with their POWs, their attack on Pearl Harbor, and their inhumane battle strategies, everyone in the United States agreed that the war needed to be ended. ...

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The Importance and Effects of U.S. Involvement in World War I and II Only about two hundred years old, the United States had developed into a major world power by the beginning of the 20th Century. The 1900's marked the beginning of a drastic change in the economy, communications and technologie...

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