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Because after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nakasaki, Japan finally surrendered. This ended the war in the Pacific Theater and because the war in Europe had already ended, WWII had ended entirely.

AnswerIt wasn't. It was the ending point of the war, not the turning point. Another stabLtCol Jimmy Doolittle's raid on the Japanese homeland in April, 1942, demonstrated to the Japanese that their homeland was vulnerable. It was more of a moral victory than a military one, but many believe that this bombing raid forced the Japanese to accept the fact that they were not invincible and to take on a more defensive strategy in the war. I'm not sure this was a "turning point" per se in the war, but it was certainly a significant turn of events.
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The Japanese Navy had built up a large, strong force of aircraft carriers, escort ships, and top-level warplanes and pilots. Further, the US forces did not know where all these ships were until they were on their way to attack and occupy the US-held island of Midway. US code breakers learned of the attack early enough that Admiral Kincaid and Admiral Spruance, second in command (but first into action) were quietly sent with their respective carrier groups to a position northeast of Midway to await the Japanese attackers. They were totally successful.

The reason that the resulting battle was a turning point is that the US carriers and planes thoroughly whipped the Japanese Navy forces by sinking carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu. Without carriers to land on, many Japanese planes and pilots were lost. Japan could not afford to lose that many experienced war pilots, and was weak in planes and pilots until the war ended. This battle also showed US citizens and military people that the US could beat the Japanese, after all.

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The detonations of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, and, later, Nagasaki, forced the Imperial Command to ask the Emperor to offer surrender.

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