Unit Five > Chapter 34

Guide to Ch. 34

1. What did Admiral Suzuki's government try to do in April 1945?

2. How did Stalin impede these efforts?

3. Why did Stalin impede these efforts?

4. What event removed the need for an invasion of Japan?

5. What happened two days after that?

6. What happened the day after #5 after that?

7. What condition did the Japanese government put on Japanese surrender?

8. By when had all the Japanese armies surrendered?

9. Who was in charge in Japan after that?

10. What effect did the Japanese victories have on the position of the European powers?

11. Who set up a government in northern Vietnam?

12. Who resumed control in the south of Vietnam?

13. Whom did they (#12) set up as their puppet ruler?

14. What was the policy of the new Labour government towards India?

15. What had to be done before this policy could be put into effect?

16. When did India gain its independence?

17. What happened immediately after that?

18. Which Indian principality was unable to decide peaceably which country to join?

19. Who were the two antagonists in China, and what factions did they lead?

20. Which side did Stalin support in this conflict?

21. When did war break out?

22. Who won, and what was set up? Links:

Learning Curve Heroes and Villains page on Harry Truman and the decision to drop the A-bomb.

Doug Long's excellent and comprehensive site called "Hiroshima: Was it Necessary?"

Books:

Bird, K. and ? American Prometheus A biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. Excellent on the whole Manhattan Project.

Rhodes, Richard, The Making of the Atomic Bomb An excellent history not only of the making of the bomb, but also the debate over whther or not to use it.