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Hiroshima
The first atomic bomb used as a weapon is dropped on Hiroshima, killing 80,000 people instantly. -
News in America
The news travels to America and is put in newspapers. This is the first time American citizens knew about the bomb being dropped. -
U.S.S.R. declares war on Japan
Since Japan didn't surrender, the Soviet Union entered Manchuria and defeated Japanese forces. -
Nagasaki
A second atomic bomb is dropped in Nagasaki from a B-29, causing more chaos. -
Seeking peace
Emperor Hirohito and Japanese Prime Minister Suzuki decide to seek an immediate peace with the Allies. -
Tokyo asks for peace
Tokyo petitions for peace as long as Emperor Hirohito can retain his throne. -
US responds to surrender offer
Harry Truman put in a diary entry, “Ate lunch at my desk and discussed the Jap offer to surrender which came in a couple of hours earlier. They wanted to make a condition precedent to the surrender. Our terms are ‘unconditional’. They wanted to keep the Emperor. We told ’em we’d tell ’em how to keep him, but we’d make the terms.” -
Japan breaks their promise
Japan sank an American destroyer and an American landing ship, breaking the peace treaty promise. -
Japan accepts the peace
Emperor Hirohito declared that peace was preferable to destruction. He ordered the Japanese government to prepare a surrender. -
The surrender
Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signed on behalf of the Japanese government. General Yoshijiro Umezu then signed for the Japanese armed forces and the war was over. -
