1. T he Bombings of
Hir oshima and
Nagasaki
By
Hunter McJenkin

2. Before Bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki
 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Malaysia, Wake Island,
Guam, Thailand, Shanghai, and Midway on December 7th and 8th
of 1941.
 Japan thought United States would react slowly and take years to
organize their fleet. Japan was wrong and only destroyed 3 ships
out of 17.

3. The Initial Act
 The Allies firebombed city's of Japan and planned for a costly
invasion so the Japanese would surrender.
 The United states called for a surrender of Japan by letting the
Japanese sign the Potsdam Declaration, The United states said
that if you don’t sign the Declaration we would utterly destroy you.
 The Japanese never surrendered and would rather commit
suicide then sign the treaty.

4. The Manhattan project
 The leader of the project was Major General Leslie Groves and
began in 1939
 The project was a research and development program meant to
come up with first two Atomic bombs to destroy Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.

5. The First Bombing
 The Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945
 The atomic bomb was called “little boy”.
 In Hiroshima over 100,000 people died instantly because of the
radiation and the force of the explosion.
 The Japanese didn’t believe it was an atomic bomb and didn’t
surrender.

6. The Second Bombing
 The Atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on December 9th,
1945
 The bomb was called “fat boy”.
 In Nagasaki over 70,000 people died instantly because of the
radiation and force of the bomb.
 When they dropped “little boy” it exploded on land but when they
dropped “fat boy” it exploded at the altitude of 1,650 feet which
cause more destruction.

7. The Aftermath
 Half of the deaths occurred on the first day.
 The health department estimated that 60% died of from flash or
flame burns, 30% from debris “buildings falling over”, and 10%
from diseases on the first day of the bombings.
 If you were a mile away from ground zero you would have gotten
3rd degree burns.

8. Japan surrenders
 Six days after the bombings Japan announces there surrender
and signs the Instrument of Surrender on September 2nd ending
World War ll.
 The United States for bided Japan on using any atomic material
which was a law called three Non-Nuclear Principles which Japan
still justifies to this day.

9. Sources
 http://
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 http://
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