US Actions

Values: Unconditional Surrender The Potsdam declaration asked for Japans unconditional surrender or face..

Complete and utter destruction

Value: Unconditional surrender. When was the potsdam decliration presented

26 July 1945

Experience: WWII How many men had the US lost before Aug 1945

more than 100,000

Experience: WWII How many calsulties was a invasion on Japan said to cause

132,000

Value/Belief: Four Freedoms What were the four freedoms

Freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, Freedom from want, Freedom from fear

Value/Belief: Four Freedoms When and who introduced the four freedoms?

President Roosevelt in 1941

Experience: Beginning of Cold War. United States felt that Japan’s surrender could

help them to increase their power against the Soviet Union.

Experience: Beginning of Cold War The Soviet Union had expanded into

China, Korea and Manchuria during WWII