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The Empire of Japan surrendered to the United Nations on this day 77 years ago...
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:26 am
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:26 am
August 14, 1945.
The Japanese government announced that they had accepted the terms offered to them at the Potsdam Conference back on July 18. Spontaneous celebrations broke out all over the world as, for the first time in six years, the planet was at peace. While the formal surrender ceremony wouldn't take place in Tokyo Bay until September 2, millions of Allied servicemen could now breathe a sigh of relief as Operation Downfall - the invasion of Japan - would no longer be happening. The Second World War was over and, in its wake, were an estimated 70-80 million dead and trillions of dollars in damage.
YouTube - radio announcements of the surrender
The Japanese government announced that they had accepted the terms offered to them at the Potsdam Conference back on July 18. Spontaneous celebrations broke out all over the world as, for the first time in six years, the planet was at peace. While the formal surrender ceremony wouldn't take place in Tokyo Bay until September 2, millions of Allied servicemen could now breathe a sigh of relief as Operation Downfall - the invasion of Japan - would no longer be happening. The Second World War was over and, in its wake, were an estimated 70-80 million dead and trillions of dollars in damage.
YouTube - radio announcements of the surrender
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Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:28 am to RollTide1987
Significant event in world history
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:29 am to RollTide1987
Idiocracy is happening.
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:36 am to RollTide1987
Thank you J. Robert Openheimer. He saved 250,000 or more American lives not having to invade mainland Japan.
This post was edited on 8/14/22 at 9:37 am
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:37 am to RollTide1987
I didn’t realize the United Nations declared war on Japan.
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:38 am to Havoc
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I didn’t realize the United Nations declared war on Japan.
oh yeah, they used to be tPOS, they'd declare war at the drop of a hat
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:38 am to Havoc
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I didn’t realize the United Nations declared war on Japan.
OP is right in the sense that someone from 1945 would have considered his post title perfectly acceptable.
Nevertheless, it reminded me of the "Time Machine" from Idiocracy.
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:39 am to RollTide1987
Japan was then free to pursue other endeavors such as Tentacle Porn and Gojira movies.
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:46 am to LSUPilot07
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Thank you J. Robert Openheimer. He saved 250,000 or more American lives not having to invade mainland Japan.
it's been posted on here before but supposedly the purple heart medals made in preparation for the anticipated casualties for an invasion of Japan are still in stock
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:52 am to Havoc
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I didn’t realize the United Nations declared war on Japan.
For your reading pleasure:
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The Declaration by United Nations was the main treaty that formalized the Allies of World War II and was signed by 47 national governments between 1942 and 1945. On New Year's Day 1942, during the Arcadia Conference, the Allied "Big Four"—the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China—signed a short document which later came to be known as the United Nations Declaration, and the next day the representatives of 22 other nations added their signatures.
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The guy in the radio broadcast in the YouTube video I posted even refers to the alliance as the "United Nations."
This post was edited on 8/14/22 at 9:54 am
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:53 am to 777Tiger
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it's been posted on here before but supposedly the purple heart medals made in preparation for the anticipated casualties for an invasion of Japan are still in stock
I remember in the late 1980s seeing .50 cal ammo with lot dates from WWII. Also saw the same thing on 155mm rounds.
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:54 am to Darth_Vader
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I remember in the late 1980s seeing .50 cal ammo with lot dates from WWII. Also saw the same thing on 155mm rounds.
a lot of WWII surplus ordinance and MREs were used in Vietnam too
Posted on 8/14/22 at 9:57 am to RollTide1987
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The Second World War was over and, in its wake, were an estimated 70-80 million dead and trillions of dollars in damage.
This is crazy.
Posted on 8/14/22 at 10:00 am to BigPerm30
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This is crazy.
it's really fricked up how people are towards each other
Posted on 8/14/22 at 10:58 am to RollTide1987
Alot of people don't know just how dominating the Japanese were in WWII. Let's just say they didn't really lose alot of territory until they were nuked.
This video has everyday listed in the war. You can watch the territory change over time but it's incredible how much the Japanese had until the very last days. Only in the very last days does the lines change much.
war in the Pacific by every day map
This video has everyday listed in the war. You can watch the territory change over time but it's incredible how much the Japanese had until the very last days. Only in the very last days does the lines change much.
war in the Pacific by every day map
Posted on 8/14/22 at 11:28 am to 777Tiger
At least something is in stock.
Posted on 8/14/22 at 11:48 am to RollTide1987
Halsey
Fletcher
Spruance
Nimitz
This post was edited on 8/14/22 at 12:16 pm
Posted on 8/14/22 at 12:00 pm to RollTide1987
We didn't punish the Japanese enough.
Posted on 8/14/22 at 12:03 pm to RollTide1987
It’s wild that WWII only lasted 6 years. Probably felt like a lifetime in the thick of it especially if you lived in Europe. and provided so much to study that it’s still a major field decades later.
Of course america never stopped being at war from this point on. Which is a shame.
Of course america never stopped being at war from this point on. Which is a shame.
Posted on 8/14/22 at 12:35 pm to Kino74
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This video has everyday listed in the war. You can watch the territory change over time but it's incredible how much the Japanese had until the very last days. Only in the very last days does the lines change much.
Notice the light blue color on the map that represents allied countries not at war with Japan. That’s the Soviets, and it stays light blue until the very end when it changes to dark blue, then almost immediately large portions of Japanese controlled China, Manchuria, and Korea fall under communist control.
Manchuria had been a puppet state of Japan since the early 1930’s, and over a million Japanese civilians had settled there.
The Japanese were terrified of Soviet brutality. The Soviets and Japanese also had a peace pact similar to the one Stalin and Hitler signed at the beginning of WW2. Japan was using the Soviets to negotiate a conditional surrender to the Allies. Japan didn’t surrender until Soviets entered the fight against Japan, all hopes of a conditional surrender were over, and two million Soviet troops were storming through Japanese territorial land.
The Japanese were some stubborn bastards. Not even two bombs could force them to unconditionally surrender. It wasn’t until the Soviets entered the fray that they finally capitulated.
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