Lmao

but japanese didn’t surrender because of your uncle, he was lying to you

@@inrainbowman As I said it was a joke.

​@@jimgallagher2979I'm betting your uncle also told you how he saw grown men crying tears at the news now knowing they would live

​@jimgallagher2979 Ignore the idiots on line. Bless your uncle.

Damn. Time sure does fly

Truman looks great for 130

@@Daniel-dp6up Can't even tell he is a head in a jar.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

⁠@@gregthorne4292 The US has a head in a jar now.

Little bit later "oh shit"

Narrator: (He was, in fact, not bluffing.)

"Here comes the sun" goes brr

until the Fat Man and Little Boy were dropped...

BOOM

People knew he would make trouble

he was bi- ass mason. fk him

Many Japanese in power viewed Truman as a mild-mannered haberdasher from the mid-west who could easily be overwhelmed. Well, he was a mild-mannered haberdasher (a term falling into disuse, but I like it) from the mid-west. He wasn't overwhelmed.

Dude was not metal, he was mental!

how?@@warren2010

Lmaooo I love this comment

"No, MacArthur. We ain't nuking Korea 8 times." -Harry S. Truman, 1950

@@champagnegascogne9755China*

HAHAHAHAHA

our last GREAT president

On G, no cap.

Truman was right.

i wonder if he actually said that to oppen back in the day..

its just for drama guys.@@motorbreathjz

​@@michaelhutchings6602 "this is maga country now" Truman.

@@motorbreathjz no. the words are true, but historically, Truman said it after Oppenheimer left the oval office and not to his face.

That’s after he fully understood the bomb, he was mostly scared of what it was capable of, and looking back decades later, he was right

New threats arise. Japan, The US and others have a common enemy now and it’s at their best advantage to be allies.

That’s what happens when you drop two atomic bombs on a country.

The USA controls and monitors Japan, so of course it has to be an ally. People love Japan now because it's not a successful economy anymore, although there was plenty of Japanophobia in the 1980s if you do research.

@@sacredprovenance Allies? Bullshit they are our subject

USA and Japan make each other too much money to fight

"Fuck around and find out" - Truman

He should've showed footage of the bomb and their tests, and footage of them loading the bomb, and footage from the pilot hovering over Japan. It would've spared the lives of all those Japanese civilians.

@@UnitedStatesofAmerica1984 knowing the mind of the Japanese militarists, they wouldn't have believed it. Their plan was to kill as many Americans as possible and scare the Americans into coming to terms favourable to Japan. BTW, the rice harvest of 1945 failed. The Americans could have waited until their were millions dead of starvation and a communist revolution. The a-bombs were the best option.

​@@UnitedStatesofAmerica1984Japan probably wouldn't have surrendered, even seeing the footage

We firebombed all their cities burning their women and children alive and shocking them into surrendering. Then set up a military administration regime that dictated every aspect of their lives for 10 years. Now we're best friends. I'm pretty sure that's called Stockholm syndrome.

@@haydengalloway5177 Like Germany, Japan realized they can dominate the world peacefully and be more successful than their imperialist predecessors ever could. One of the great new realities about the post WW2 world is that it allowed both small countries (Example: Singapore) and demilitarized countries (Example: Japan) to nonetheless achieve great power and living standards. This was not possible before WW2.

There are no permanent allies nor enemies. Only interest.

More like defeated and conquered.

Yeah that's how the world's been like for millenia. Civilizations fight each other in some periods, and in other they become allies. I'm quite certain there will be a time in the next 100 or 200 or so years when the US & Japan will become enemies again, and perhaps fight. The world keeps spinning after all.

@Donovan Stone the problem is that if they did that, or showed the testing of the first bomb in New Mexico, they would have faced serious issues had the second bomb not functioned properly. It was an extremely untested technology, one issue could have caused the bomb to not function and that would have has major effects on US and Japanese confidence

@@fogpivvl8341 before the first bomb atomic energy was super hyped in media, there is one interview you can look up where a reporter actually asks Eisenhower to clarify if atomic weapons would ever be used by police. The soldiers who were a mile from the first bombs hypocenter in a trench were absolutely horrified afterwards but it was a great success for the time and the soldiers were banned from speaking of it to anyone unless the wanted to be tried for treason. The engineers who created it feared it and if I recall correctly suggested that it be used as a demonstration at first. The public afterwards was pretty pro atomic bombs still, until years later when people started to be exposed to stories of Japanese survivors. Even some Japanese citizens welcomed the bomb because it saved them from being sent to a definitive death sentence by their emperor. Crazy times.

@@fogpivvl8341 Yep! Four warheads were built after the Gadget (used at Trinity as the first nuke): Fat Man and Little Boy were just two of them. In fact, Little Boy was not supposed to be used on that mission: they were going to use one named Thin Man instead, but it was found to have a defect that had ruined the warhead over time. Little Boy was, simply put, the Plan B. The last one was set aside as a backup for Fat Man if memory serves: thing is, Fat Man’s deployment was pretty much flawless.

@@melodycryderman110 Yep. Also, the next target planned if they hadn’t surrendered after Nagasaki? The city of Tokyo, itself, including the Imperial Family which had refused to disgrace themselves by hiding away. America basically said, “Thought we didn’t have another? We’re not stupid. We also know Hirohito is in Tokyo, and what you all think of him. Now: Say “Uncle Sam”, or we’re wiping your prized living god, and all of the backups, from Earth’s hard drive. Clear?”

Reminds me of attack on titan, the world refuse to back off then Eren launch the rumbling

Truman go

tbh first when i learned about ww2, i was like, they should not have nuked japan but this single video changed my mind so japan was basically asking for it

Explore The internet The Japanese believed that the best thing a person could do is to die in war and the worst thing is surrendering

@@greenoranges9156 so In short, They were being STUPID CASE CLOSED

DO IT AGAIN TRUNMAN

He holding beer in the Hell as a killer of 250k innocent civillians.

...back when Presidents knew what they were doing..

Éamon De Valera lol trump knows what he's doing, its the last few presidents that didnt

@@jadenn.hernandez7784 lolllll yeah he does lol

Éamon De Valera None of them knew what they were doing

Jaden N. Hernandez you are legit the turkey that voted for Christmas

It is ironic that the B29 was designed for high altitude precision bombing of targets in Germany from bases on the US east coast in the event of loss of Great Britain as a bomber base. It ended up being used at medium altitudes employing incendiary bombs on a carpet bombing technique on Tokyo. While the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the most noted bomber raids of WW2 each of the fire storm raids on Dresden and Tokyo caused more tha 100,000 deaths EACH.

@@kegginstructure you're repeating leftist garbage

@@kegginstructure A-bomb was a decisive factor. One A-bomb on Tokyo = no emperor to reign. And I believe Japan was in American zone of control so Soviets could not occupy any part of mainland Japan after she surrendered. Allies had specified those zones during three conferences in Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam as part of plan for New World Order.

then Truman lost his war dept.. paid reparations to Japan and Germany.. and made UN the law and subject to NATO.. USA is a vassal and broke

@@jgdooley2003 there's only 25.000 death in Dresden raid. Stop spouting Goebbels propaganda and go study the finding that's been conducted by the city of Dresden itself.

I had read that MacArthur's estimate was 1 million allied soldiers, because he knew the mind of the Japanese, having spent much of his young life in that part of the world. He knew they would never stop, because in that day they believed their emperor was a god, and would gladly all sacrifice themselves for him. He recommended drastic action...the nuclear bomb. I recommend the book American Caesar, which is a biography of him. He was truly a great man. I really believe without him the war in the Pacific would have been much worse.

Dropping nukes was completely immoral. You forgot to mention that.

@Trannykiller9000 In October 1905, MacArthur received orders to proceed to Tokyo for appointment as aide-de-camp to his father. A man who knew the MacArthurs at this time wrote that: "Arthur MacArthur was the most flamboyantly egotistical man I had ever seen, until I met his son."[27] They inspected Japanese military bases at Nagasaki, Kobe and Kyoto, then headed to India via Shanghai, Hong Kong, Java and Singapore, reaching Calcutta in January 1906. In India, they visited Madras, Tuticorin, Quetta, Karachi, the Northwest Frontier and the Khyber Pass. They then sailed to China via Bangkok and Saigon, and toured Canton (Guangzhou), Qingdao, Beijing, Tianjin, Hankou and Shanghai before returning to Japan in June. As I stated "that part of the world", which included time in Japan. He knew the oriental mindset. However apparently some research says he was against using the bomb, which appears to differ from the book American Caesar. I stand by my statement though, in that he had spent much of his young life in that part of the world. Last time I looked, the Phillippines was in THAT part of the world!

@@alanduncan1980 As opposed to what other aspect of war? The best thing is to end it quickly, and hopefully in your favour. That is what the A-bomb did.

@@lilyflower4962 Seems fair enough to me after the Japanese spent almost a decade prior to the war, and the war itself massacring, raping, murdering, torturing every one of their neighbors they could for material gain. Then attack the United States with complete knowledge that they could never win anyway. Play imperialist games, win imperialist prizes.

Godzilla is their defense

@N O Godzilla exists fucking everywhere...

Eminem created Godzilla

Now that’s funny

I mean besides Zilla it's amazing the movies they made after getting nuked, it truely takes horror to make art

That’s epic

Oppenheimer showed up at the white house, telling Truman they had the blood of millions on their hands. Truman said " no, it on MY hands"and kicked him out. ( as reported in TRUMAN , the great book by David McCollough. ) met Truman when I was a child. My grandfather was a Lawyer in Independence, MO. They knew eachother when HT was a judge.

@@jefolson6989 That is an insane connection. Very cool

@@jefolson6989 balls of steel!

Is that what your cow said, really? What about your goat silent .

I wrote an essay about Truman's choice for my college history final. My thesis was that I'd hate to be Truman.

It also lead to >200k innocent people dying...

@@darrenmc1986 it was estimated millions would die in a full-scale invasion of Japan. The scale of a naval force needed to invade Japan to end the war would have dwarfed the invasion of Normandy - and the invasion of Normandy cost over 400,000 lives, twice what the atomic bombs did. Women and children had been trained to fight the allied forces every step of the way. Now imagine if you had invaded Japan to the tune of millions of Japanese and American lives and at the end of the war, people found out you had a weapon that could have ended things months earlier - do you think those people would be happy to find out you instead chose to send their brothers and sons to their deaths?

@@darrenmc19861 million more would have most likely died if the invasion took place though so lives were in fact saved

​@@darrenmc1986Germany lost 6 to 7 million people in WW2, at least 500K of them were civilians. Are you going to moan about us beating the Nazis too?

Not worth it

Much respect.

@@mattcorcoran7082 Consider repenting for such a crappy statement. Being a prisoner in any Japanese camp was unfathomably hard. And do some digging into what the Japanese did to Manila as they retreated. They did need to be smacked down...and smacked down hard.

@@mattcorcoran7082 lmao sick burn

My dad was an ensign aboard a tender in Adm Spruance's navy. No bomb, no go home. He would have been in the south Pacific throughout the invasion of the home island. Who knows what would have happened

Japan was going to surrender as soon as Russia joined the war against them. In fact they did not immediately surrender after the bombs, but when Russia officially declared war(3 days later).

@@zacharysymons7389 Lol even when the bombs dropped the military attempted a coup to reverse the emperor's decision for peace. Having a very destructive weapon that you do not know how many amounts the US have is much scarier than any conventional army could. So much for your Soviet theory

And ironically America preserved his regime. So the USA didn’t really need to nuke Japan lol

@@mmmhmmm8236 Japan feared the USSR more than they did the Americans. Nuking a city is like fire bombing. Tokyo looked just like Hiroshima and Nagasaki after WW2. It’s why they didn’t surrender after the first two bombs. Japan feared being destroyed by the Soviet Union like they did in Eastern Europe and the Japanese knew that if they at least surrendered to the United States their society would be preserved. (And the USA made Japan one of the greatest nations on Earth) And US officials knew this, Truman was wanting to show a sign of strength to intimidate Stalin, many U.S. officials knew the nukes wouldn’t scare Japan, they were gonna keep fighting until the end but when Stalin got involved that’s when the Emperor finally avicated.

@John Jennen that doesn’t mean Japan wasn’t scared enough of the USSR to end up surrendering to the USA.

Are Japanese are more evil than German's? Or they knew it this is only power of 3rd world country, best place for nuclear experiment on human civilization? Actually American were cowards, until or unless they attacked in Pearl Harbour they didn't bother about it. For them this is just a European war affairs nothing else. Hitler did mistake to engage with Russian and Japanese did mistake in Pearl Harbour else they will till rule almost half of world.

Telling a country that you will target their women and children if they don't surrender is a pretty outrageous comment.

@@haydengalloway5177 War is hell, and tough decisions need to be made. Besides, you’re being disingenuous. He said nothing about targeting women and children. He gave the Japanese fair warning. They didn’t yield, surrendered, or listened. The rest is history.

"After we're done with you, your new source of pride as a nation will be making cartoons and backward comic books about schoolgirls." Total own by the U.S.

@@haydengalloway5177 Women and children were killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. Anything to say about that?

Baka -cow lolol

japan is being a sussy baka

@@marthaindahouse1010 Truman cooked them too long in that microwave

​@@booqrdoit9138😂

And unfortunately japanese still have Stockholm Syndrom lol.

I'm not sure about that. I think McArthur wanted to use nukes during the Korean War but Truman said no

I think he means if Truman was president now and had America’s current nuclear abilities

@MegaMrblackguy they were able to say it in a civilized way though.

@MegaMrblackguy Do you like making yourself look like an idiot over the internet?

@MegaMrblackguy and America still has nuclear weapons

Nani?

*Japan: -_-

Last Democrat I would vote for. End of Story.

and they again did not surrender because of that but because russia betrayed them

@@Rivan98 Hirohito surrendered but the Japanese Soldiers didn't

He's a puppet, he just did what he was told.

And God Almighty is not bluffing, and brought him to hellfire for eternity, because this guy was 10000x worse then Hitler!

Defeatism could get you killed in the Japanese or German governments of the time.

@@usul573 bruh

He is scary? LMAO. I guarantee you that japan was much more scarier. If japan had the nukes, america probably would be a radioactive wasteland

@@MLarios97 Yeah, nothing screams scary like a relatively underdeveloped country of manlets

how would you have surrendered? please elaborate

You never cave to American apes. Luckily for the world, America probably won't be around all that much longer.

@@l337pwnage all you accomplished here was making me laugh a year later at my own joke 👍🏻🇺🇸

@@nittany272 What's really funny is China salvaged all those sunk American vessels. 🤣 And I just watched a vid about some Amerimutt who got himself killed in Ukraine. So, enjoy your laugh, and go eat some McDonalds, lol.

My father was on a new air craft carrier heading to Japan to become the flagship of the invasion force. I'm guessing that there would be a good chance of the same for me.

My dad had also just finished basic training at the time this was broadcast. I used to argue with him though that it wasn't just the bombs that ended the war. The japanese military didn't care, as far as they were concerned the war wasn't over until every single citizen was dead. What led to the emperor making his decision to over-ride the military was 3 things. 1- the bombs. 2- The Soviet invasion of manchuria and 3- the horrible starvation that was affecting the entire population.

@@vernfb5189 Add to that Hirohito's intervention in the war council which was evenly split. It was risky, and he knew it had to be the right time, or the military may have held a coup.

Good to hear you are so optimistic.

USSR entry to the war would have made Japan sue for peace anyway.

@@Chaddest_Maximus They were raping and pillaging China for 8 years, "occupied" Korea for 35. There is no justice in war. Don't start a war if you can't handle the repercussions.

@@qsr1776 Japan liberated Korea from the Russian Empire. China was rapidly turning Communist during the 1930s.

disgusting comment. you are a heartless person. People like you are whats wrong with the world

The nuke was unjustifiable. All you Americans like to talk about how nuking two cities was necessary to end the war. Pick up a history book because your education system has clearly failed you

​@@charlesburns7391 tell that to the marines. had they not dropped those nukes, the whole Philippines might have been pulverized. the battle of manila and the manila massacre, where around 100k-500k civilians were killed (mostly babies, children and women used as human shields by IJA), were two of the reasons why the US dropped those bombs on Japan.

But isn't that "destiny."

Ok, boomer.

And now he's swimming in hellfire. Well done!

Marshall Aid rebuilt Europe.

They are both strong cultures full of pride and not afraid to work hard. Other cultures just come to america to sponge off us while complaining about anerica. It's the reason Mexico will never be a world power.

Make no mistake, if Germany today knew it could conquer the U.S., they would in a heart beat. They are only our allies because they still believe we have superior might. The only reason an American should ever use a pistol is because his battle rifle is out of ammunition.

True, but it says even more about the USA and allies and how they treated their conquered countries. Marshall Plan (Google it) and the truly benevolent USA/Japan occupation after the war before we handed back Japan as a sovereign country.

And Veitnam.

A greatly underrated president to those who don't study the history.

A great man. We haven't seen his equal since.

He was the poorest president. He left the white house and went to his home state on a train where the people saluted him.

His biggest criticism was getting involved in the Korean War right after WWII.

@@miketackabery7521 Definitely the last decent Democrat.

You are probably from a South or Central American country then.

First test of the bomb was July 16th. Until then, no one knew for sure that it would be a viable weapon.

I think he was In hopes they would negotiate peace, to make a phone call to order death to anyone would be a sick feeling, that many that fast is terrible but the other would be a long terrible process sending troops, I guess it would be hell to start a war and then he’ll to finish it should keep us out of war but the biggest commanders never walk the battlefields

@@dave-ltd688 I think at this moment they knew they are near to succeeding on finishing the bomb, it was just a matter of time

Joy when murdering thousands of innocent people? If so Truman was a true psychopath. It was a war crime

Imagine having the most powerful weapon of the world in your hands, and you are an american. Truely, the most dangerous combination of things imaginable.

There was barbarism on both sides. Americans took plenty of Japanese skulls as war trophies. The following quote from a February 1946 issue of The Atlantic by war correspondent Edgar L. Jones says it all: 'We shot prisoners in cold blood, wiped out hospitals, strafed lifeboats, killed or mistreated enemy civilians, finished off the enemy wounded, tossed the dying in a hole with the dead, and in the Pacific boiled the flesh off enemy skulls to make table ornaments for sweethearts, or carved their bones into letter openers.'

@Warbr33d Ofcourse there are deviants in any society but it was more so with the Japanese. This caused a reciprocal response amoung some Americans. These horrible acts were hidden from the public were some peoples and cultures embrace savage evil. This is the problem with the moslems and their pagan religion. Only idiots and evil people ignore and condon evil. As a father and grandfather the way to stop evil is to "eliminate" it.

@@Warbr33dwhat’s your point? Causality is still relevant as is context and intent. Up until they invaded Pearl the US was engaged in peace talks and wasn’t particularly motivated to ho to war in Europe or the pacific. Japan made a series of very bad decisions regarding the US and they hot what they got. “War is hell” there is no polite war and there will always be winners and losers. Plenty of civilians died because a few power hungry men had bad intentions including Germans and Japanese, but those people chose not to revolt against those men and instead participate through indifference. It’s almost 2024 as I write this and how unsurprising it is that we have conflict in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and to nobody’s surprise civilians are still paying the price for the hatred and greed of a few men. I certainly wish the US wasn’t involved and I’m concerned that things will escalate but I’m also perfectly fine with whatever happens because “war is hell”

prove it

@@Warbr33d Japanese were worse than the Nazis in WW2.

And now Japan is full of Japanese, and America is full of mongrels, lol.

The speech is from 1945.

@@timdyer5903 that’s why it’s hard to believe

​@timdyer5903 no, it was posted 8 years ago, are you blind?

Japand declared war in the US because the US had blockaded its access to oil. The US wanted war with Japan and at the end even though they didnt need to use those nukes they did it anyway to so how powerful they were to their adversaries. It mattered niot, the Sovites were were well on their way to getting their own bomb. Those 300,000 Japanese were murdered simply for show. Dropping those two bombs was an act of pure evil and of course a crime against humanity. The decision makers are all war criminals.

​@@specialkcitizen6263 the Soviets didn't have a functioning nuclear bomb until 1949, and that was after sympathetic Manhattan Project scientists give them info. As for the influence of the bombs on Japan's surrender, it's literally quoted in the Japanese surrender speech.

@handsup4055 lol fact!!

And there’s video game nerd.

@@neoneherefrom5836 Can't say they didn't win tho

They were taught to speak like that so that when you would be recorded your voice was clearer, and since film tape was so expensive the Mid-Atlantic accent would narrow down attempts at redoing the recording

yeah but could he define America in one word? "fhjhjkashjkdakjfjkasafiuimsorry"

@@hypnos9336 you’re right, of course. And how could i forget his wisdom - “you ain’t black if you don’t vote for me”

George Dubya, I presume? "Fool me once"...

That was the plan all along and the Js knew it. The unconditional surrender thing was propaganda for the home front. MacArthur knew that the Emperor was the key to control of Japan.

The Japanese were culturally primitive. Killing their dictator would have caused a civil war.

Japan did unconditionally surrender. USSR haha Can russians do anything but lie?

Some Japanese officers put out feelers to the US, suggesting they'd surrender if the Emperor were to stay on. But Washington was still pretending that nothing but unconditional surrender would do! Don't believe the "Nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the only thing to do" line!

False.

Yeah, but that's inconvenient for my irrational, childlike pacifism, so I'm just going to pretend it's not true and lie to your face if you tell me otherwise. (/s)

They were about to surrender. Especially the second bomb was not necessary for that anymore, it only served scaring Russia from taking over Hokkaido and the three islands that they then took anyways. For me, that second bomb was a war crime and you can hear in every Truman speech or interview how he didn't care for the civilians they killed.

@@L0REN0R2Z0RR0 Nice far-left conspiracy theory. No facts to back it up, though. Try reading a book: "Hell to Pay, Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan." It draws from primary sources (do you know what those are?) and makes it very clear how Japan had every opportunity to surrender.

they were on verge of surrendering , you are stupid

​@@L0REN0R2Z0RR0bro is jealous he's not american

Such a very cringe comment

​@@alixfarron6730Ahh. I see your humor died in one of the air raids.

He deserves more credit than he's gotten, stepping up to the plate after FDR passed. His administration was as much FDR's as it was Truman's, following the same game plan. It's why the Allies prevailed. It was a global team effort.

@@sanswithoutsans his humor got carpet bombed

No, he's in hellfire lol.

Fake quotation.

​@@JamesRichards-mj9kwNo, it isn't. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said this exact quote after Pearl Harbor. Sit down son. L + ratio + skill issue + get told.

@@lelouchvibritannia4028 It was invented for the 1970 flop "Tora! Tora! Tora!".

Cue Tony Iommi's classic dinosaur riff!

Get out of fiction

Wow can’t believe your father was lewis strauss

Did he ever meet captain america? 🤔

That's why i'm saying drugs are too easy to obtain nowadays.

Absolutely! Some people in these replies really don't understand history

we truly are the best people on the planet

@@MatthewCaruso-ky4uz Not the best. But the US leadership saw an opportunity to make the world a better place, and for the most part they succeeding in doing so.

:DDDDDDD americans are sick

That's when we still had honor and dignity. Can't say that I see that anymore with the nonsense I see these days.

@@anitamccarty6784 You think the fucking 40s were a time of honor and dignity? Do you know anything about the 40s at all?

That was never an option.

Who were the others?

@@goldencrisp4671 George ,Lydon

Wayne Edward LBJ was a HORRIBLE president

@@goldencrisp4671 TR is one.

Wayne Edward Lyndon B. Johnson? You think he was good? We had some bad Vice Presidents becoming POTUS, just like the other Johnson.

Spoken like a true follower of Christ

Let me rephrase that for you This is a real Murderer😂

@@chanulmalwenna6094unit 731 😂

@@chanulmalwenna6094🤡

@@chanulmalwenna6094 yes he was, and he was brave enough to admit to it and not feel shame for his decisions afterwards. Being a real leader isn't about being the best or most moral person, it's about making the hard decisions that will make your group successful... and he did that. Being a "real president" as the OP put it, i think is about being a real leader who works to make the US win, and not what we have now.