Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Flashcards

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

Japanese city devastated during World War II when the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Aug 8th, 1945.

United States weapon of mass destruction dropped on Japan forcing them to surrender

A secret research and development project of the US to develop the atomic bomb. Its success granted the US the bombs that ended the war with Japan as well as ushering the country into the atomic era

Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

Name of the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima

September 2, 1945

The deadly pollution that descends through the air after a nuclear bomb explosion.

American B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945.