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The US blocked all imports on Japan. That caused the attack on Pearl Harbor
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a bunch of japanese planes attacked the US naval base in honolulu hawaii. It lasted 2 hours and it was left completely destroyed.
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Robert Oppenheimer becomes the director of the Manhattan Project. It is a U.S. government program formed to secretly build and test an atomic bomb.
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Hitler commits suicide because Germany surrendered the war
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Germany surrendered and the war in Europe ended
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The US tested the bomb and they were ready to drop it on Japan.
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The first bomb was dropped on Heroshima, Japan. Enola Gay was a b-29 bomber and it was pioleted by Paul Tibbets. It killed 80,000 people.
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President Truman went onto the radio and notified that the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. This is surprising because our president would never do that.
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Charles Sweeney dropped the bomb on Nagasaki and it killed 75,000 people.
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Jappan surrender thus ending the war. 457,062 were killed due to the bombing and radiation after.
