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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Before August 1945, military leaders in Japan repeatedly asked the Allies for terms of surrender. refused Allied requests for their surrender. mounted a final offensive against Allied troops. were unaware that the Allies had defeated Germany.

jagr2713 (jagr2713):

Well what do you think?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

refused Allied request for there surrender but m not 100% sure

jagr2713 (jagr2713):

Well your correct "On August 6, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Late in the evening of August 8, 1945, in accordance with the Yalta agreements, but in violation of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and soon after midnight on August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union invaded the Imperial Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Later that same day, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb, this time on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Following these events, Emperor Hirohito intervened and ordered the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War to accept the terms the Allies had set down in the Potsdam Declaration for ending the war. After several more days of behind-the-scenes negotiations and a failed coup d'état, Emperor Hirohito gave a recorded radio address across the Empire on August 15. In the radio address, called the Gyokuon-hōsō ("Jewel Voice Broadcast"), he announced the surrender of Japan to the Allies."

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Yay! :)

jagr2713 (jagr2713):

See how they refused then finally gave up later and surrendered in sept 2

jagr2713 (jagr2713):

Great Job :D

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