Exhibits
Location: Government Documents
On September 2, 1945 more than 250 Allied warships lay anchored in Tokyo Bay. From battleships and submarines to minesweepers and tank landing ships, the armada... View "Ho Chi Minh declares an independent Vietnam; Japanese surrender in Philippines; British re-enter Singapore" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
Two weeks after the Japanese emperor's broadcast of defeat, the first major contingent of Allied occupation forces land near Tokyo, but not before voluminous amounts of documents... View "Soviets secure Manchuria; emperor of Vietnam abdicates; Japanese surrender in China" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
On August 15 the Japanese Emperor's announcement of the nation's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, recorded the previous day, is radio broadcast to a stunned people. For a nation whose... View "Soviets capture key cities in Manchuria; Japanese coup d'état attempt; medical supplies parachuted into POW camps in Japan" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
Uncle Joe fulfills his promise from the Yalta Conference: exactly three months after the defeat of the Third Reich, the Soviets declare war on Japan August 8. Stalin wastes... View "Special Japanese attack aircraft tested; Allied bombing of Tokyo and other cities" Exhibit
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The United States feels options have run out in face of the fanatical militarism of Japan. How to bring an end to a war that could... View "Japanese special attack forces last sortie; Sado Island POW massacre" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
At the Potsdam Conference, only two out of the original three Allied leaders of the Yalta Conference are the same. But they are able to reach agreements on... View "New Prime Minister of Britain elected; Potsdam Declaration issued; POWs die from medical experimentation in Rabaul" Exhibit
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Congress approves the Bretton Woods Agreements Act (named after Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, for the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference), authorizing U.S. entry into... View "Japanese medical experimentation on POWs in Rabaul, New Britain; redeployed U.S. troops arrive in the Philippines; British sorties against Japan" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
As France celebrates French National Day for the first time since being invaded by Germany in 1940, U.S. scientists (with British collaboration) ignite a nuclear bomb in... View "Important Japanese airfield near Shanghai bombed; Italy declares war on Japan; U.S. tests nuclear bomb in New Mexico" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
American bombing of Japanese targets on the home islands and in China increase in number and in tonnage as never before. Thousands of mines are... View "Airfields from Iwo Jima and Okinawa utilized for bombing missions; Japan attempts peace treaty with the Soviets; Philippines come under Allied control" Exhibit
Location: Government Documents
With the fall of Okinawa, the southernmost of the main islands of Japan--Kyushu--is within 350 miles of American forces. At a conference in Hawaii General MacArthur... View "Bombing of Japanese cities; Balikpapan oil fields captured" Exhibit
