Atomic bombing of Nagasaki
1945 · Event
Second nuclear weapon used in war; ~70,000 dead by year's end; Japan accepts unconditional surrender within days.
On these timelines: Japan, Master, The Manhattan Project
More from Japan
- Edo period (1603)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi unifies Japan (1590)
Around 1945
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)