Course 2, Volume 1A. American Foreign Policy in Growth and Action Page: 95
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THE UNITED STATES WINS WORLD LEADERSHIP IN WAR
mand the Japanese Imperial Government . . . at once
to liberate all allied prisoners of war and civilian
internees. . . . The authority of the Emperor and the
Japanese Government to rule the state shall be sub-
ject to the Supreme Commander for the Allied
Powers who will take such steps as he deems proper
to effectuate these terms of surrender.
With this act the war of 1939-1945 was over.
The United States had emerged from the 45
months of its involvement un-
A vision of scathed physically. Together with
world peace the British, the Americans had de-
veloped a weapon that far out-weighed the potentialities of anything used by any
of the other warring powers. Along with nearly
50 other nations the Big Three had created a new
mechanism which they hoped would insure the
preservation of peace. The character of this
organization, its promises, its formation, its struc-
ture, its accomplishments-the hopes with which
it was born-are part of the story of the next
section of this discussion of America's place in a
world suddenly rendered fragile and perishable by
the fact of the atomic bomb.95
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Air University (U.S.). Extension Course Institute. Course 2, Volume 1A. American Foreign Policy in Growth and Action, book, April 1959; Alabama. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1077937/m1/109/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting National WASP WWII Museum.