WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
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1 week
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3 weeks
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2 months
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28 days
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Detailed explanation-1: -15, days after the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, Japanese Emperor Hirohito broadcast a surrender message to his people on the radio.
Detailed explanation-2: -Japan formally surrendered in writing two weeks later, on September 2, 1945.
Detailed explanation-3: -Yoshijiro Umezu signed their names on the Instrument of Surrender. The time was recorded as 4 minutes past 9 o’clock.
Detailed explanation-4: -It noted that the unwillingness of Allied troops to take prisoners in the Pacific theatre had made it difficult for Japanese soldiers to surrender.
Detailed explanation-5: -The general interpretation of the intercepts at the time was that Japan might be on the road to surrender, and they perceived there was a sympathetic “peace party” in their high command, but that Japan was ultimately not yet ready to accept unconditional surrender.