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

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