HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Victory Over Japan Day, Hirohito
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Harry truman and the cold war: the war in the pacific us major conflict, successful island hopping strategy, even though. The manhattan project after einstein says germany is developing a weapon of mass destruction, manhattan project is led by gen. leslie groves and physicist j. robert oppenheimer, Truman wanted to have an immediate surrender of japanese, drops nuclear bomb, to save us sacrifice a. b: robert oppenheimer. Aug. 8 russians declare war on japan and invade manchuria. Good vs evil, communism continues to be spread throughout europe, how will us stop them: george kennan"s long telegram, ussr determined to make better and more powerful weapons that us, kennan, us expert on. Ussr affairs, writes mindset of soviets, developed intense anti-capitalist outlook, believe they are at war with capitalism, have brutal leader joseph stalin, soviets will continue to undermine. Capitalist goals in europe and around the globe, britain tells us they must step up to ensure that.
