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In which John Green teaches you about World War II, a subject so big, it takes up two episodes. This week, John will teach you how the United States got into...
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- 4.5M
- CrashCourse
- The Manhattan Project
- No Surrender For The Japanese
- Why Did The U.S. Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
- Aftermath of The Bombing
Even before the outbreak of war in 1939, a group of American scientists—many of them refugees from fascist regimes in Europe—became concerned with nuclear weapons research being conducted in Nazi Germany. In 1940, the U.S. government began funding its own atomic weapons development program, which came under the joint responsibility of the Office of...
By the time of the Trinity test, the Allied powers had already defeated Germany in Europe. Japan, however, vowed to fight to the bitter end in the Pacific, despite clear indications (as early as 1944) that they had little chance of winning. In fact, between mid-April 1945 (when President Harry Trumantook office) and mid-July, Japanese forces inflic...
Hiroshima, a manufacturing center of some 350,000 people located about 500 miles from Tokyo, was selected as the first target. After arriving at the U.S. base on the Pacific island of Tinian, the more than 9,000-pound uranium-235 bomb was loaded aboard a modified B-29 bomber christened Enola Gay(after the mother of its pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets)....
At noon on August 15, 1945 (Japanese time), Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s surrender in a radio broadcast. The news spread quickly, and “Victory in Japan” or “V-J Day” celebrations broke out across the United States and other Allied nations. The formal surrender agreement was signed on September 2, aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri, anc...
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Feb 6, 2024 · World War II Casualties edit source. Casualty generally refers to any soldier lost to active military service due to death, injury, desertion, having been captured, or soldiers that are missing. Rosters of World War II Dead (all services) FS Library microfiche 6362382-6362392. United States Army, Quartermaster General's Office.
Nov 1, 2019 · Noboru Seki of the 442nd Infantry Regiment recalls the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese-American internment camps, and proudly serving his country in combat ...
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- Memoirs of WWII
Jul 22, 2020 · World War II marked the first—and only—wartime use of atomic weapons. The U.S. bombing of Japan helped to bring an end to the deadliest war in history, but resulted in many more civilian deaths. Featured Document Display: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | National Archives Museum
e. Japan participated in World War II from 1939 to 1945 as a member of the Axis and encapsulates a significant period in the history of the Empire of Japan, marked by significant military campaigns and geopolitical maneuvers across the Asia-Pacific region. Spanning from the early 1930s to 1945, this tumultuous era witnessed Japan's expansionist ...
Sep 2, 2022 · By Bruce Henderson. September 2, 2022 7:00 AM EDT. Henderson is the author of Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II (Knopf). T he ...
