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May 13, 2024 · The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were American bombing raids on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, which marked the first use of atomic weapons in war. Little Boy , the bomb dropped on Hiroshima , was a gun-assembly fission bomb using uranium , whereas Fat Man , the bomb dropped on Nagasaki , was an ...
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4 days ago · Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.
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1 day ago · Hirohito [a] (29 April 1901 – 7 January 1989), posthumously honored as Emperor Shōwa, [b] was the 124th emperor of Japan, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He was one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world, with his reign of 62 years being the longest of any Japanese emperor. Hirohito was born in Aoyama, Tokyo, during the ...
- 25 December 1926 – 7 January 1989
- Emperor Taishō
- 24 February 1989, Musashi Imperial Graveyard, Hachiōji, Tokyo
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2 days ago · The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, [43] was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the vast Pacific Ocean theater, the South West Pacific theater, the Second Sino ...
- 7 December 1941 – 2 September 1945, (3 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
May 15, 2024 · By Sam McGowan. As the Japanese delegation stood on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri on September 2, 1945, preparing to sign the documents that ended World War II, a large formation of Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers swooped low over Tokyo Bay as a reminder of the terrible destruction that had befallen their nation and turned Japan’s cities into ruins.
1 day ago · World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, participated in the conflict, and many invested all available economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities in pursuit of total war, blurring the distinction between ...
