Title: The end of WW II Category:History / War & Conflicts Details: Words: 1378 | Pages: 5.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The end of WW II
'A bright light filled the plane. We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud . . . boiling up, mushrooming.' (www.csi.ad.jp) What could cause such devastation? Fat Man and Little Boy, the bombs that ended World War II and brought the world into the nuclear age.
In September 1940, after the fall of France, Hitler and Mussolini made an alliance with Japan. The Tripartite Pact provided the right of entry of Japanese troops into Indochina. Japan quietly extended her …showed first 85 words of 1378 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1378 total…of the geographic structure of Nagasaki. It is estimated approximately seventy thousand people died by the end of the year because of the bombing.
President Harry S. Truman warned that more bombs would follow unless an immediate surrender was secured. With no other choice, Japan agreed to the United States demands for unconditional surrender.
After years of fighting, the Japanese finally surrendered to the United States. On September 2, 1945, Japanese leaders signed the surrender document that ended the war that lasted six years and one day.
