23. Document Project 23: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

Quiz for Document 23.8 U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, 1946

Quiz for Document 23.8: U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, 1946

Document 23.8: U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, 1946

Choose the best answer to each question.

Question 1

1. According to the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey , when did Hirohito decide that the war should end, even if it meant acceptance of defeat on Allied terms? (See also Chapter 23.)

Four weeks before the bombing of Hiroshima

The day of the bombing of Nagasaki

After the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima

Three months before the bombing of Nagasaki

Question 2

2. Prior to the survey, what did Americans believe was necessary to convince Japan to accept surrender terms?

Threat of invasion

Atomic bombs

Increased aerial bombing

Propaganda

Question 3

3. What did the authors mean when they wrote that Japanese leaders “read correctly the true situation” regarding the end of the war?

Japan was on track to win the war.

Japan was going to lose the war.

Europe was withdrawing from the war.

The Americans were about to surrender.

Question 4

4. To what did the investigators attribute Japan’s ultimate decision to surrender?

The atomic bombs

The land invasion

Air superiority

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