Honor and Surrender

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After Italy and Germanys surrender， the only enemy of Allies was Japan.To protect their honor， Japan refused to surrender.To end the world war II in a faster way， a new weapon with huge antipersonnel force-- Atomic bombs， were used by American air force.The use of the A-bomb led to Japans surrender， but for the cost， it took thousands of peoples lives away.

By the fall of 1944， the Allies were moving onto Japan.To strike bake， Japan let kamikaze entry into the war.From 1944 to 1945， though Japan lost more people than American， it successfully gave Americans material damage and heavy pressure.After Okinawa， the next step for Allies was to invade Japans homeland.President Turmans advisers had informed him that invasion of Japan homeland might cost the Allies half a million lives because Japanese preferred to die than surrender.

Americans have started to research A-bombs since 1942 in the top-secret Manhattan project.To make the war end faster， President Turman decided to use A-bombs to force Japans surrender.On August 6，1945， the United States dropped the first A-bomb named “Little boy” on Hiroshima， about 70，000 or 80，000 people died in the attack.Three days later， on August 9， Americans targeted Kokura， a military stronghold in Fukuoka， and got ready for dropping the second A-bomb.But pilots fond that Kokura had bad weather， so General Charls W.Sweeney changed the goal to Nagasaki.Because of being a hilly area， the damage of the second A-bomb “Fat man” was less than Little boys， but it also killed more than 70，000 people.At last the Allies destroyed Japans honor.

Japan reluctantly chose to surrender.On August 15， 1945.Japan announced its surrender， and on September 2nd， they surrendered to General Douglas MacArthur， the ceremony took place at the U.S.battle ship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.With Japans surrender， World War II finally came to an end.

The war ended， but A-bomb is still affecting Japanese life.Because the pollution and the radiation caused cancer， more Japanese died after the war.Even now， the center of where American dropped the A-bomb still cant plant anything.The victory of the World War II also is a lesson to all countries， it used blood and tears to show everybody that the peace is the only honor in the world.