Modern History

By Cecilia Brady28

  • D-Day June 6th 1944

    The battle of Normandy began

  • V-J Day August 15th 1945

    The day Japan surrendered

  • April 12th 1945

    The day Franklin Roosevelt died and Harry Truman took over as president.

  • July 16th 1945

    The first atomic bomb was dropped in the New Mexico dessert.

  • Hiroshima atomic bomb

    On August 6th 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

  • Nagasaki atomic bomb

    On August 9th 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

  • V-E Day Tuesday May 8th 1945

    The end of the war with Germany