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WORLD WAR - II |
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Date-wise Events |
- September 01, 1939:
- Invasion of
Poland, including air strikes on Warsaw, triggered the
second world war.
- December 12, 1941:
- The United Kingdom declared war on Bulgaria.
- Hungary and Romania declared war on the United
States.
- India declared war on Japan.
- August 06, 1945:
- USA dropped two
atomic bombs on Japan towards the end of World War II: one
an untested gun-type fission bomb called “Little Boy”
on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945; and
- August 09, 1945:
- USA dropped another
implosion-type bomb called “Fat Man” on
Nagasaki. Together these two bombs killed
some 200,000 Japanese citizens by the end of 1945, with
additional deaths subsequently from cancer and other
diseases attributable to radiation exposure.
- August 15, 1945:
- Japan surrendered, with the surrender documents
finally signed aboard the deck of the American
battleship USS Missouri on 2 September 1945, ending the
war.
- September 02, 1945:
- The surrender by Japan was formalised on this day
with the surrender documents finally signed aboard the
deck of the American battleship USS Missouri.
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Description |
It was marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the
Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed)
and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres
(in which approximately one million were killed, and which
included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it
resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities.
These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history. |
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