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Stalin and WW2?
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i found somewhere that another reason for dropping the a-bomb on japan was to keep stalin out of the pacific. but i don't get did they mean the pacific ocean or what? and how did stalin help influence the bombing of the japan.
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Within three months of the end of the war with Germany, Stalin agreed to enter the war against Japan on the side of the Allies, in the hopes of regaining what had been lost at the end of the Russo-Japanese war from 1904-1905.
He took some persuading but by the time he agreed the other leaders were having doubts about him. Between the meetings to discuss this the USA had successfully tested the A-Bomb and President Truman's advisors were urging him to use it on Japan. Stalin was only told there was a powerful new bomb and did not ask any questions about it.
Truman was advised that dropping the bomb and not mentioning it's power to Stalin would avoid an invasion of Japan, thereby saving thousands of American soldiers lives. It also had the effect of stopping the Soviet Union's chances of occupying territories in the Far East (the Pacific countries, not the ocean), and extending the Communist influence.
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