Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and VJ Day 1

The bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima was a devastating event that still affects countries all over the world to this day. They happened towards the end of World War Two. U.S. President Harry S. Truman gave the order to attack the Empire of Japan. Hiroshima was bombed on Monday August 6, 1945, with a nuclear bomb nicknamed "Little Boy". Then again, on August 9 of that same year, the bomb named "Fat Man" was dropped on the town of Nagasaki. These are the only attacks on record using nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.
The bombs killed around 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80, 000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945. Even after the fact, thousands of people died from injuries or illnesses due to exposure to radiation, and in both cities the majority of people killed by the explosions were civilians.
Six days after the U.S. detonated "Fat Man" over Nagasaki, on August 15th, Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers, and on September 2 they signed the Instrument of Surrender, which ended the Pacific War and WWII. The bombings led to Japan adopting Three Non-Nuclear Principles, which stopped that nation from nuclear armament.
Without the bombing of the two Japanese cities, World War II would have probably come to a more difficult ending. Many people would debate that the loss of the innocent human lives was too high of a cost to end the war, but if the war would have continued even more human lives could have been lost.
Though the past is past, we can still look back on the things that people did to give us our freedom and safety, and express our gratitude. For without the past, our future is meaningless.



http://www.floridamemory.com/FlordiaHighlights/V-J_Day/


Question: T/F Nagasaki was hit by a nuclear bomb named "Little Boy"
Answer: False Nagasaki was hit by a nuclear bomb named "Fat Man"

Question: What was the date of the bombing of Hiroshima by the United States?
Answer: August 6, 1945

Question: Did people continue to die after the bombing on both cities? If so, what did most people die of?
Answer: Yes, exposure to radiation

-This is a the mushroom cloud that was caused by the bombing on Hiroshima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki


-This is the ground view of the cloud created by the bomb hit on Nagasaki











http://www.vce.com/hironaga.html




-This picture was taken after the bombing on Hiroshima over 60,000 building were destroyed and killed 42,000 people

http://www.vce.com/hironaga.html



This is a map to show where the bombs hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki


-This is the bomb "Little boy"
August 6th 1945
It was dropped on Hiroshima






Far right: Is the bomb "Fat boy"
Closest: Is a before and after
picture of Hiroshima. Top, is
before it was hit and the bottom
part is after it had been hit

-This is the plane that carried and dropped the bomb "Fat man"











http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/nagasaki.htm

-This is the flight path that they took to get to Nagasaki

http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/hiroshima.htm (Plane picture)

both pictures are at this site (fat man and little man) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Fat_man.jpg/200px-Fat_man.jpg