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World War 2 (Part 5--Fall of Japan and Beginning of the Cold War)

Dr. J Season 2 Episode 93

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The United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan.  Why?  What was the reasoning of the US at that time?  And what did the US do for its allies, and even its former enemies immediately after World War 2?  And how did we get such states as communist North Korea and communist China?  The answers all lie in what happened at the end of this war and its aftermath.