Japan Surrenders 1945
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Shows Japan's international activities, 1931-1945: troops embark for Manchuria; Shanghai lies in ruins (1937); Japans delegation leaves the ...all » Shows Japan's international activities, 1931-1945: troops embark for Manchuria; Shanghai lies in ruins (1937); Japans delegation leaves the League of Nations; war rages in China; Italian troops invade Ethiopia; Franco's troops guard Madrid; a party celebrates the Axis pact of 1940; Chinese refugees clog the streets; Pearl Harbor is attacked; remnants of the U.S. fleet assemble; the amphibious assault on Guadalcanal; Gen. MacArthur returns to the Philippines; Iwo Jima is attacked; Gen. Buckner watches Japanese surrender on Okinawa; kamikaze planes attack aircraft carriers; B-29's bomb Japan; the Navy bombards Hokaido; the atom bomb devastates Hiroshima; the Potsdam Conference meets; a parade in Moscow; Hirohito rides in a procession; Pres. Truman announces the Japanese surrender; and New York City rejoices. Other personages: Adm. Halsey, Pres. Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek, Adm. Nimitz, Sec. of State Byrnes, Sec. of War Stimson, Sec. of the Navy Forrestal, Cordell Hull, Adm. Leahy, Molotov, Stalin, Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin. ARC ID: 39075 Keywords: Aircraft carriers; Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936; Parades; Potsdam Conference, 1945; Refugees; Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Attlee, Clement Richard; Bevin, Ernest; Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr., Gen.; Forrestal, James Vincent; League of Nations; Leahy, William Daniel, Adm.; Philippine Islands Russia--Moscow; Spain--Civil War, 1936-1939; Stimson, Henry Lewis; New York (New York state, United States, North and Central America) inhabited place; Pearl Harbor (Oahu, Honolulu county, Hawaii, United States, North and Central America) harbor; Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975; "Halsey, William Frederick, 1882-1959; "Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989; "MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964; "Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William), 1885-1966; "Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; "Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972; Byrnes, James Francis; "Hull, Cordell; "Molotov, Vyacheslav; United News«