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Why did they need to unconditionally surrender?

• flerchin 5y ago
  Mostly to free Korea, Burma, and China.
  • user-the-name 5y ago
    Why would that be needed for that? "Conditional surrender" doesn't mean there are no conditions the other way.
    • flerchin 5y ago
      Japan rejected losing the occupied territories.
      • user-the-name 5y ago
        And nothing other than murdering thousands of civilians with an atomic bomb could change that?