Atomic bombing of Hiroshima
1945 · Event
US B-29 Enola Gay drops first nuclear weapon used in war; ~140,000 dead by year's end.
On these timelines: Master, Japan, The Manhattan Project, World War II, USA
Around 1945
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)