Your Textbook Reports That During World War II,after America Dropped

question 72

Multiple Choice

Your textbook reports that during World War II,after America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,fewer than 5 percent of Americans polled felt that we should not have used the weapons,and 23 percent felt we should have used even more such bombs.All of the following except ____ most likely contributed to American's harsh attitude towards doing harm to Japanese civilians.

• A)the callous,unsympathetic nature of the American people
• B)a gradual "foot-in-the-door" adjustment to increasingly negative attitudes towards the Japanese
• C)self-justification processes reducing dissonance after causing harm to others
• D)government propaganda attributing negative traits to the Japanese people as a whole

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