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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and goes into WWII
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Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer becomes main person for the Manhattan Project. Project came to counter for Nazi Germany.
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Germany agrees to surrender; ending war with Europe.
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US detonates the worlds first atomic bomb at Trinity test site in the desert of New Mexico.
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First atomic bomb to be used as a weapon destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:15 a.m. It is nicknamed "Little Boy", the bomb is released from Enola Gay. It killed 80,000 people. Bomb was to get Japan to surrender.
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Bomb dropped over Nagasaki, Japan. It was nicknamed "Fat man"; It killed 75,000 people
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Three days after bombing at Hiroshima,Truman speaks to nation over radio and by that time, US dropped 2nd bomb on Nagasaki.
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The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the Japanese government said to surrender under the terms of the Potsdam declaration of July 26th which it had previously ignored.
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Two days after the bombing of Nagasaki, a message was dispatched from Major General Leslie R. Groves to Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell, who was directing him to organize a special Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb Investigating Group.
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Japan surrenders, ending WWII.
