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• Retention/control of Australia was crucial for Allied powers
• Retention/control of Australia was crucial for Allied powers

  Aim to counter Japanese advances and expansionism and maintain control in the Pacific
• US forces provided military assistance to secure Australia’s defense for controlling the Pacific
• Japan was an Axis Power
• Australia said


  Hirohito is to be blamed for what the Japanese did
• Australia wanted Hirohito put on trial as a war criminal and the Americans said no
• Americans said no


  If Hirohito was put on trial, the Japanese would rise up against and fight again, justifying the 2 atomic bombs in Japan
• 1945: Britain, America convinced that there going to be another war against the Soviet Union
• Britain, America


  Convinced that there going to be another war against the Soviet Union if Hirohito was put on trial and found guilty
• Hirohito would’ve been found guilty and harmed and large population of Japan would transform to communism
• Chief justice of QLD
• Chief justice of QLD pushed the Australians’ line that Hirohito was to be blamed
• 6 senior Japanese soldiers were hanged
• Scapegoats


  Individuals or groups who are made to bear the blame for others