Which best describes why the united states dropped two atomic bombs on japan?

The US dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end the war more quickly and without so much bloodshed. The fighting, as the US got closer to Japan was so bloody that it made American planners believe that something like one million American troops would be killed or wounded in an invasion of Japan.

        i'm fairly sure that the correct answers are 2 and 3.

        i used both my knowledge of world history and the process of elimination to obtain these answers. option 1 cannot be a possible selection because the mandate of heaven belongs to ancient chinese philosophical belief. option 4 sounds like it would benefit the region than detriment it. however, both 2 and 3 explain a potential reason for what could have contributed to the fall of the roman empire.

      hope this ! if i were you, i'd get a second opinion, because i haven't taken this course for a year. best of luck!

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this is a good question! i'll do some research and come back when i have the answer!