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World War II, start and end.
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The Manhattan Project, from when the preparations were made, to when the first atomic bomb was tested.
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The Imperial Japanese Navy launched their suprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the American Naval Base in Hawai'i
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The firebombing of Tokyo was estimated to have been one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
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They dropped the first atomic bomb for a test.
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President Truman knew he held the end of the war in his hands and that he should use it, he would risk exposion of the worst weapon known to man.
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The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It instantly killed approximately 80,000 people.
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The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. It killed around 75,000 people instantly. It was supposed to have been dropped on Kokura, Japan on August 11; but, because of clouds, it was dropped on Nagasaki which was the alternate site.
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Just three days after the Hiroshima bombing, and on the day of the Nagasaki bombing; President Truman tells the United States that the first atomic bomb had been dropped on a military base, Hiroshima.
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Japanese sign the surrender document in Tokyo Harbor abord the U.S.S. Missouri.
