Desperate Coup in Japan! (WWII Emergency! The Kyujo Incident 1945)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Jimmy Akin
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In August 1945, Americans welcomed the news that Japan had surrendered and World War II would soon be over. Yet Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli reveal that a desperate last-minute coup plot by the military in the face of humiliating surrender almost derailed peace and prolonged the war.
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| 0:59.0 | Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America, |
| 1:11.5 | was suddenly and deliberately attacked by a naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. |
| 1:19.6 | I asked that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack a state of war |
| 1:30.5 | has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire. |
| 1:37.2 | A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness |
| 1:51.4 | to the enemy. It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. |
| 1:59.3 | The first from which the sun draws this power has been lost against those who brought war to the far |
| 2:06.5 | perceived this afternoon a message from the Japanese government in reply to the message forwarded |
| 2:12.4 | to that government by the Secretary of State on August 11. Ideem this reply a full acceptance |
| 2:19.0 | of the Putsdam Declaration, which specifies the unconditional surrender of Japan. Arrangements |
| 2:25.8 | are now being made for the formal signing of the surrender terms at the earliest possible moment. |
| 2:31.9 | General Douglas MacArthur has been appointed the Supreme Allied Commander to receive the Japanese |
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