August 1945
Atomic bombs dropped
August 1945 marks the end of World War II in popular memory.
The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9), Japan surrendered on August 15, and the formal surrender was signed September 2.
The phrase often serves as shorthand for the dawn of the nuclear age: The world changed in August 1945.
- HiroshimaFirst nuclear-struck city
- NagasakiSecond city bombed atomically
- atomic bombFission-triggered mass destruction device
- atomicOf elemental particles
- bombExplosive device or disaster
nuclear · surrender · Japan · Enola Gay · bombing raid · mushroom cloud · ground zero · radiation · Trinity · Manhattan Project · Truman · emperor · unconditional surrender · V-J Day · war's end · fallout · devastation · Little Boy
- Atomic Bombingatomic bomb, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, atomic bombing, Little Boy
- Colonial KoreaJapanese occupation, Japanese rule, colonial rule, occupation period, independence movement
August 1945September 1939
WWII's opening month
Pearl Harbor · invasion of Poland · 1939 · 1941 · declaration of war
August 1945conventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
August 1945Armistice Day
WWI ceasefire commemoration
armistice · war of attrition · diplomatic resolution · Treaty of Versailles · Paris Peace Conference