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Japanese leaders wanted to take control of all of East Asia by seizing the colonial lands and they could do this because British could not stop them becaues they were busying fighting Hitler
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United States knew that Japan was going to attack because they had cracked their communication code but they did not know where they would attack
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2,402 Americans killed
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President Frankling Delano Roosevelt dies at the age of 63
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Little boy, the codename for the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, kills 90,000–166,000 people
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Fat man, a codename for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, kills 60,000–80,00 people
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Japan offically surrenders
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