From 1939-1945 there was a disasterous war that would change the way countries
             around the world looked at each other forever, this war was World War 2. The one major
             turning point of this war was the bombing on Hiroshima. Proubably the most stunning
             thing that has ever happened on the face of this earth. This bomb changed the ways that
             countries looked at new age warfare forever, this bomb was the atomic bomb. While the
             war was about over in Europe with Hitler commiting suicide, Japan thought they still
             stood a chance against the other countries in the war to try to gain more natural resources.
             The U.S. had to stop the Japanesse from trying to become more powerfull.
             The war in the pacific had continued after Germany's surrender, and the
             battles there were among the hardest fought. Beginning in June 1944, the Battle of the
             Philippine Sea wreaked havoc on the Japanese Navy, forcing the resignation of Japanese
             Prime Minister Tojo. ( War, Victory, and the Bomb Paragraph 1) by February 1945, U.S.
             forces had taken Manila. Next the U.S. Set its sight on the island of Iwo Jima in the
             Bonin Islands, about halfway between the Marianas Islands and Japan. U.S. finally took
             the island by mid-march, but not before losing the lives of some 6,000 marines
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