What's funny is that russia did not get any war tech from Japan and the US destroyed or Sank anything they could not carry back to the States...Seems like the only thing Russia got was North Korea which turned into a Warzone almost imediately

IV. The Japanese Search for Soviet Mediation

Document 29: "Magic" – Diplomatic Summary, War Department, Office of Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, No. 1204 – July 12, 1945, Top Secret Ultra
Source: Record Group 457, Records of the National Security Agency/Central Security Service, "Magic" Diplomatic Summaries 1942-1945, box 18

Since September 1940, under the covername "Magic," U.S. military intelligence had been routinely decrypting the intercepted cable traffic of the Japanese Foreign Ministry. The National Security Agency kept the 'Magic" diplomatic and military summaries classified for many years and did not release the series for 1942 through August 1945 in its entirety until the early 1990s. This summary includes a report on a cable from Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo to Ambassador Naotake Sato in Moscow concerning the emperor's decision to seek Soviet help in ending the war. Not knowing that the Soviets had already made a commitment to its Allies to declare war on Japan, Tokyo fruitlessly pursued this option for several weeks. The "Magic" intercepts from mid-July have figured in Gar Alperovitz's argument that Truman and his advisers recognized that the emperor was ready to capitulate if the Allies showed more flexibility on the demand for unconditional surrender. This point is central to Alperovitz's thesis that top U.S. officials recognized a "two-step logic" that moderating unconditional surrender and a Soviet declaration of war would have been enough to induce Japan's surrender without the use of the bomb.[22]

Document 32: Cable to Secretary of State from Acting Secretary Joseph Grew, July 16, 1945, Top Secret
Source: Record Group 59, Decimal Files 1945-1949, 740.0011 PW (PE)/7-1645

The draft of the proclamation to Japan that reached Truman contained language that modified unconditional surrender by promising to retain the emperor.  When former Secretary of State Cordell Hull learned about that development he outlined his objections to Secretary of State Byrnes. The latter was already inclined to reject that part of the draft but Hull’s arguments may have reinforced his decision.

Document 33: "Magic" – Diplomatic Summary, War Department, Office of Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, No. 1210 – July 17, 1945, Top Secret Ultra
Source: Record Group 457, Records of the National Security Agency/Central Security Service, "Magic" Diplomatic Summaries 1942-1945, box 18.

Another intercept of a cable from Togo to Sato shows that the Foreign Minister rejected unconditional surrender and that the emperor was not “asking the Russian’s mediation in anything like unconditional surrender.”  Incidentally, this “Magic’ Diplomatic Summary” indicates the broad scope and capabilities of the program; for example, it includes translations of intercepted French messages (see pages 8-9). [Page 14 missing from original]

Wrong?
Japan would have accepted unconditional surrender except for the removal of the emperor. I can repeat that again if you'd like.
We didn't get our information from Russia, we got it by intercepting cables TO Russia.

Just read the documents, every single time, the ONE argument that prevented negotiation was removal of the emperor.

An argument i've read is that the Germans would have won the air "Battle of Britain" if they had stayed focused on air-fields and military facilities, but the idea that terrorizing the populace would work better is what ultimately took the pressure off the RAF enough to allow them to regroup.

Really Germany's defeat in WWII was an object lesson in how going out of your way to be evil just hurts you yourself: they wasted a great lot of resources burning Jews (and even tried to up the timetable on the Holocaust as the war turned sour, when if they had just put it on hold and prioritized killing Soviet soldiers over Jewish civilians, they could have done something), or switching the focus of the battle of Britain to a civilian terror campaign, or their rotten treatment of Soviet civilians (could've gotten a lot more on their side than they did if they had gone out of their way to show that their enemy was Stalin and not the Slavic Peoples)

That was just a conflict of ideology I consider. After the communist had risen to power they colaborated to defeat Nazi threat until the Japan nuke incident.Cold War would be like launches of proxy wars throught the world (Vietnam, Congo, Bolivia, Cuba), arms race(nukes), strategic missile placements etc...

This is what i dont get. Why did Hitler invads Russia after they had a pact? That was so dumb! They may have conquered Leningrad but The Stalingrad battle put them on their ass's. I read a few times that Stalin wad low-key scared of Hitler and it took him a while to react to the reports that Nazi Germany invaded Russia

Im glad that they tried to invade Russia though because they probably could still be in power over those contries in Europe now.. Maybe

Almost assuredly so, simply because Germany was just so much more ready for total war than anyone on the continent. Even though America and Britain were ultimately stronger, Germany surely could have attempted a second blitz of Britain in 1941 or early 1942 if they didn't have those resources spread out from Leningrad to the Sea of Azov.

Basically if you take out any one of Germany's major mistakes: their invasion of the USSR, the resources used in the Holocaust, Hitler's inept management style, or their priorities in Britain

I'm sure there's a definitive answer for Hitler's invasion, but my guess is that it was either due to ego (they've got land, we need land, we can crush them), or because he was just as afraid of Stalin betraying him as Stalin was afraid of Hitler.

Honestly it doesn't really annoy me when people say that the Atomic Bomb ended World War II.
What annoys me is that everyone actually believes that we "saved 1 million American lives" with the bomb. Of course at the time it may have seemed like that, but in hindsight we can see that it was clearly an exaggerated number. So why are people still acting like it's true? I guess that's the way people are, but it's annoying.

Also, I wouldn't mind it so much if I didn't see it myself, but people really need to stop making Pearl Harbor seem much bigger than it is. There were way too many people who were happy when the earthquake hit Japan, saying they deserved it.

Anyway, only reason I even care is because I had to deal with some of this stuff growing up as a half-Japanese male.

The Russians certainly couldn't trust America after that, they were like close allies before the nuclear bombs were dropped

Yes.  Wrong.  Again, Sato was talking to russia mostly to PREVENT russia from invading while they stalled out the US and actually didn't want to surrender.  They weren't goint to sell Sato anything.  Though again... those cables show the exact opposite of what you think they do regardless.

If you read those cables.  You'll see SATO says to Togo that russia would require unconditional surrender EXCEPT for removal of the emperor.

While Togo says they would accept NO unconditional surrender even if it protected the emperor.

The specific Magic cables your talking about in fact talk about what they'd do once the war was over

No they weren't.  Both the US and Russia considered fighting each other after the fall of Germany.