Harbor President Roosevelt stopped sending oil to Japan. The
             U.S. and Japan played tug-of-war for four years until the United States had had enough. Newly
             elected President Harry Truman warned the Japanese. He told them if they did not surrender they
             could expect a "rain of ruin from the air" (Beck et al p. 841). The United States heard no
             response from the Japanese. On August 6, 1945 the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima,
             Japan (Beck et al p.841). A Japanese journalist describes the terror:
             Within a few seconds the thousands of people in the streets and the
             gardens in the center of town were scorched by searing heat. Many
             were killed; others lay withering on the ground, screaming in agony
             from the intolerable pain of their burns. Everything standing upright in
             the way of the blast, wall, houses, factories, and other buildings, was
             That day 73,000 of 365,000 died in the city of Hiroshima (Samurai and Swastika). Three
             days after Hiroshima the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb over Japan. This time the bomb
             dropped on the city of Nagasaki. The bomb killed 37,500 instantly; the radiation later killed
             more. The two bombs devastated Japan.
             The nation of Japan was torn between wanting to continue the war and wanting to
             surrender. The Japanese government finally agreed to the surrender terms from the United States.
             The Japanese Emperor urged the Japanese to lay down their weapons. They surrendered to
             General Douglas MacArthur of the United States on September 2, 1945. The surrender took
             place aboard the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay (Beck et al p.841). The
             surrender was first signed by the Japanese foreign minister and then by General Umezu Yoshijiro.
             The surrender concluded with a separate surrender with China in Nanking on September 9, 1945
             (Britannica). This final surrender ended World War II.
             In the surrender with the Uni...