Events in 1945-1980 that Affected the United States History

The Korean war was very useful for American history. While preserving Japan, the country will retain and promote the interests of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). In addition, due to the Korean War, it encouraged the US Cold War policy to further expand the scope of Asian military bases and military defense and gave them reasons. In addition, the Korean War created the idea of ​​restricted war in later conflicts. It is because all the advantages of all countries have avoided the full war between them to prevent the use of millions of deaths and nuclear weapons.

However, events in Japan showed the beginning of the Cold War between the United States of America and the Soviet Union, though they approached the Second World War. Between the 1945s and the end of the 1980s, the two sides invested heavily in nuclear weapons and largely increased inventory to constrain conflict. The threat of catastrophic destruction by "bombs" wraps everyone. The school conducted a nuclear air raid exercise. The government built a bomb shelter. Homeowners dug a bunker in their backyard

In World War II, only two nuclear weapons were deployed in the battle of Japan with the United States. The first case was the morning of August 6, 1945, the US Army Air Force launched a uranium gun device named "Little Boy" in Hiroshima City and killed 70,000 people including 20,000 Japanese combatants It happened when. And 20,000 Korean slave laborers. The second incident occurred three days after the US Army Air Force dropped the codenamed sputum implosion device of "Fatty" in Nagasaki City. As a result, 39,000 people including 27,578 Japanese soldiers, 2,000 Korean slave labor and 150 Japanese fighters died. These explosions killed a total of 119,000 people. (For details, see the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki)