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Recent Event Highlights: Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and 3 more...

Created by Kangyan on Jan 23, 2011

Last updated: 01/23/11 at 07:01 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Jan 23, 2011 5:29 AM

• Surrender of Japan
  Aug 15, 1945

  On this date, Japan surrendered unconditionally due to the shock and devastation brought by the atomic bombs. Thus, bringing WW2 to an end.

• Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan
  Aug 9, 1945 10 am

  The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki by the US. The bomb, nicknamed "Fat Man", destroyed 30% of the industry district. Nearly 74 000 were killed and a similar number injured. However, the impact was not as bad as Hiroshima, due to the uneven terrain at Nagasaki
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/9/newsid_3580000/3580143.stm

• Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
  Aug 6, 1945 7 am

  American B-29 Super-fortress, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on Hiroshima. The bomb caused widespread devastation and more than 60% of the buildings there were destroyed
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_3602000/3602189.stm

• Potsdam conference
  Jul 16, 1945 to Aug 2, 1945

  The big three allied leaders, President Harry S Truman, Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill, decided a suitable punishment for Germany and also a way to end the war with Japan