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Bombing Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and goes into WWII -
Manhattan Project
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer becomes main person for the Manhattan Project. Project came to counter for Nazi Germany. -
Germany surrenders
Germany agrees to surrender; ending war with Europe. -
First atomic bomb
US detonates the worlds first atomic bomb at Trinity test site in the desert of New Mexico. -
Attack on Hiroshima
First atomic bomb to be used as a weapon destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:15 a.m. It is nicknamed "Little Boy", the bomb is released from Enola Gay. It killed 80,000 people. Bomb was to get Japan to surrender. -
Attack on Nagasaki
Bomb dropped over Nagasaki, Japan. It was nicknamed "Fat man"; It killed 75,000 people -
Truman speaks
Three days after bombing at Hiroshima,Truman speaks to nation over radio and by that time, US dropped 2nd bomb on Nagasaki. -
After bombing at Nagasaki
The day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, the Japanese government said to surrender under the terms of the Potsdam declaration of July 26th which it had previously ignored. -
Two days after bombing at Nagasaki
Two days after the bombing of Nagasaki, a message was dispatched from Major General Leslie R. Groves to Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell, who was directing him to organize a special Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb Investigating Group. -
Japan surrenders
Japan surrenders, ending WWII.
