HW 18

Japan was defeated in WWII largely due to the destruction of the morale caused by the dropping of the atomic bomb, the lack of raw materials and a mismanagement of resources. The destruction caused by the dropping of the atomic bombs on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were so widespread that it caused the Japanese government to surrender. The lack of raw materials was accounted for after cotton, rubber, nickel and oil supplies ran low. This may not have been fatal, but it certainly did not make things easy for the Japanese government. The Japanese had focus much too heavily on the construction of battleships instead of aircraft carries, which proved to be a naval miscalculation.