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Japan throws a bomb on Pearl Harbor and America enters World War II.
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Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer becomes the director of a U.S. government program created to privately build and test an atomic bomb. This program was known as the Manhattan Project. Originally, this project began to counter Nazi Germany.
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The war is ended in Europe when Germany agrees to surrender
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The first and most powerful atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb is released from the Enola Gay. The bomb exploded 2,000 feet off the ground and instantly killed 80,000 people. The purpose of the bomb was to get Japan to surrender.
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Three days after an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagaski.
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Japan finally surrends and that ends World War II.
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Japan ends the Pacific World War officially by signin the instrument of surrender.
