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The creation of the world's first atomic bomb. America was only six years away from bombing Hiroshima at this time...
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What started out as a quiet and peaceful Sunday morning would take a really sharp turn as the Japanese forces soared the Pacific to shoot up and bomb Pearl harbor on Oahu, Hawaii.
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Pres. FDR delivers his famous post-Pearl Harbor speech exactly a day after the bombings.
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American forces began training for their big, historic sweeping on Japan.
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Pres. Harry S. Truman discovers how powerful an atomic bomb could be. He then orders for the American forces to drop this bomb right on Japan.
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After the American aerial forces dropped their bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Land of the Rising Sun was forced to surrender, enough to end WWII.
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The news of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki spread throughout the world. Despite its aftermath and leaving all survivors of the bombings shaken, many people had favored the bombings, some even saying that more atomic bombs should've been dropped on Japan before they ever had the chance to surrender.