1945

and landing B-29 bombers closer to the enemy island was necessary to have the control to harm Japan. The Volcano Island, Iwo Jima was selected with about 575 miles of the Japanese coast. In fact, the alight of three Marine divisions on February 19, 1945, with the previous naval bombing was the Battle of Iwo Jima as knowing the Battle of the Pacific War. The underground installations constructed by the Japanese men with around 23,000 in it made difficult for the U.S. Navy and Marines to fight.…

had poisoned their six children and themselves the following day. On April 15 1945 the british found sixty thousand prisoners in the Bergen Belsen Concentration camp. Thousands of dead bodies on the camp grounds. The camp was later burned down with flamethrowers. The name Belsen refers to the events at Bergen Belsen DP camp. About another 9,000 died in April. By the end of June in 1945 another 4,000 died. In April 22 1945 at the Sachsenhausen Concentration camp was about 3,000 sick and weak…

that was held in possession by the United States to end war. On August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Japan killing thousands of people in the city of Hiroshima (Dudley 119). Prior to dropping an atomic bomb, Japan failed to respond to the proposed ultimatum for the country to surrender. Harry S. Truman became the President of the United States after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945 (Dudley 119). In 1945 Harry S. Truman argued that the U.S. should use a bomb against Japan…

president who took over after Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945, gives the point of view that he had to authorize the use of the atomic bomb(s) on the Empire of Japan to ensure a speedy surrender and prevent further American casualties in the Pacific War (Bernstein, 1998). Some analysts have also concluded that…

August 6, 1945, the dropping of the atomic bomb is still one of the most controversial debates still going on today. So, after putting a few ideas together and selecting a topic about what the role the Military had, or if they had any say in dropping the atomic bomb for my project. The query that I am interested in is during the summer of 1945, to what extent do some of today scholars’ interpretations of the documents /memoirs; suggest that the atomic bomb was a brilliant military move to end…

Potsdam Germany which the USA offered japan to unconditionally surrender on may 1945. The Manhattan project was the name given to the research program that developed the first atomic bomb. Lead by the world’s top physicists Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein that created a letter that had the atomic bombs origins then was sent to president franklin D Roosevelt in 1939. The atomic bomb was in tested in New Mexico on 16th July 1945. The test was codenamed ‘trinity’ which…

became an important element in American strategy to end WW2. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb named “Little Boy” on an important military and communications center in the Japanese city of Hiroshima and caused a total devastation for five square miles. After a second bomb was released over Nagasak, Japan surrendered unconditionally on August 15, 1945. Since the first nuclear test explosion on July 16, 1945, at least eight nations have detonated 2,054 nuclear test…

On 06 August 1945 an American Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber named Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb named Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A massive blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT destroyed four square miles of the city and immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people. And three days later another bomb, named Fat Man, was dropped on the city of Nagasaki; killing nearly 40,000 more people. In the following weeks and months tens of thousands of people died…

Russians had Bormann (1), or that he had killed himself following Hitler's example. His trial was set for November 20, 1945 (2), and he was charged broadly with Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes Against Peace, and War Crimes. For specifics on what he was charged with, please see the Bormann subpage. Due to his absence, a public notice was given to Bormann of his trial starting Oct 22, 1945. If he did not show up, he would be tried in absentia without the ability to defend himself. If he was found…

project and the project cost a total of 2 billion dollars. The first test was done on June 16, 1945 at the Los Alamos laboratory in the New Mexican desert. The gigantic explosion was flash of light and has to visible for many miles, a tremendous heat wave. The destructive force of dynamite formed that was half a mile wide that created mushroom cloud rose over 12000 meters into the sky. August 6, 1945 America dropped two nuclear bombs to Japan. The first uranium bomb…