Question

What choices did Truman struggle with in the summer of 1945?

Answer 1

To end the war in summer of 1945,President Truman had only two chpices to end the war with japan.

1)Invade

2) use the bomb

After giving some thought to the choices he ended up choosing the later and a bomb was droped on hiroshima killing more than 70,000 people.

Later after 3 days ,a plane droped the second bomb on nagasaki .Many peple died of radiationa even after the disaster.

Answer 2

He could authorize an invasion of Japan.

He could blockade Japan and continue bombing.

He could demonstrate the bomb in some remote area.

He could drop the bomb on a Japanese city.