Nuclear attack on Japan

• The USA started the Manhattan Project (making a nuclear bomb)


  1942
• The first bomb was made and test


  July 1945
• By July 1945 the Germans had surrendered. Japan was still fighting though.
• The Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan


  August 6, 1945
• 240000 were killed in the Hiroshima bombing
• The Americans dropped a second nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, Japan


  August 9, 1945
• 90000 were killed in the Nagasaki bombing
• The USSR joined in the war with Japan


  August 9, 1945
• Japan surrendered


  August 15, 1945
• The nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first and only time in history that nuclear weapons have been used on a target
• The nuclear attacks are important as one big part of the Cold War was the nuclear arms race
• The USSR developed nuclear weapons


  1949