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Conference at Yalta, in the Crimea in the Ukraine, USSR,
February 1945. The "Big Three": Churchill, left; FDR, center; Stalin, right.
Atomic bombs on Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki, August
1945
Soviet tanks in Manchuria, August 1945
80 YEARS AGO
ON AUGUST 6, 1945, THE U. S. DROPPED
AN ATOMIC BOMB ON HIROSHIMA.
THREE DAYS LATER, ON AUGUST 9, 1945,
THE SOVIET UNION INVADED MANCHURIA
AND THE U. S. DROPPED AN ATOMIC BOMB
ON NAGASAKI.
SIX DAYS LATER, ON AUGUST 15, 1945,
THE JAPANESE SURRENDERED.
THUS ENDED A WORLD WAR STARTED BY
JAPAN.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Manchuria
THE END OF WORLD WAR TWO
V-J DAY
Victory Over Japan Day
80 YEARS AGO - 15 August 1945
WORLD WAR TWO / SECOND WORLD WAR, declared in
Europe on 1 September 1939, ENDED
THE PACIFIC WAR, declared in Europe and the
Pacific on 1 September 1939 and in the
Pacific on 7 December 1941, ENDED
Japan broadcasts intention to surrender -
14 August 1945
President Truman announces the Japanese surrender -
14 August 1945
Japan broadcasts surrender - 15 August 1945.
Formal surrender of Japanese leaders to General Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945.
In Britain and the Commonwealth, V- J Day is on 15 August.
In the United States, V-J Day is on 2 September.
IMPORTANT EVENTS:
PRESIDENT TRUMAN WARNS JAPS TO GIVE UP
Universal Newsreel
1 June 1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSgq0jMJYT4
TRINITY
FIRST TEST OF THE ATOM BOMB
The Trinity Test
July 16, 1945
Scientists working on the atomic bomb conducted a test, exploding with a force of 18.6 tonnes of TNT, in Alamogordo, New
Mexico.
Episode 5 of the 1980 biographical TV series Oppenheimer
Portrayals of J. Robert Oppenheimer, George Kistiakowsky
and General Leslie Groves - the three persons most instrumental in producing the atomic bomb.
1 hr. 47 sec.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8mve1u
POTSDAM DECLARATION / ULTIMATUM TO JAPAN
JAPAN MUST SURRENDER UNCONDITIONALLY
After Germany's surrender, the leaders of the victorious Allies - President Harry Truman of the U. S., Prime Minister
Winston Churchill of Britain and Marshal Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union - met in Potsdam, Germany to discuss the
future.
Potsdam Declaration
26 July 2025
Prepared by President Harry S. Truman of the U. S. with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain
An ultimatum to Japan to surrender unconditionally or face destruction
Excerpts:
'We, the President of the United States, the President of the National Government of China and the Prime Minister of Great
Britain, representing hundreds of millions of our countrymen . . .
'We call upon the government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces, and to
provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.'
Truman and Churchill issued the proclamation in Potsdam.
Truman sent a copy to Chiang Kai-shek, President of China, by the American ambassador in Chungking, China.
Stalin did not sign the proclamation because the USSR was not yet at war with Japan.
The proclamation was announced over the radio on the evening of 26 July 1945.
Japan did not respond to the ultimatum.
HARRY TRUMAN
The Potsdam Ultimatum
Outtakes 1964, 1965
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH-MqdSUPNM
HIROSHIMA
Canadian-Japanese movie 1995
The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and Nagasaki on 9 August 1945.
3:05:20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ulEVymmrWs
THE BOMB
February to September 1945
Episode 24 of The World at War
26-episode 1973 British documentary television series narrated by Laurence Olivier
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x94jtdy
MANCHURIA
A documentary film about the Soviet invasion of Manchuria
on 9 August 1945 and the subsequent Soviet invasions of
the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kuril Islands, and northern
China.
Episode from the documentary series Battlefield
1:37:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBuMDG2TvcY
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Father of the Atomic Bomb
Interview
CBS News
1965
Excerpt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdtLxlttrHg
News reports in the U. S.
Tokyo Radio announcements
14 August 1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pmBEZPuQU
U. S. PRESIDENT TRUMAN ANNOUNCES JAP SURRENDER
August 14, 1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjwtTHdAZI&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Radio commentary following Truman's announcement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXD_kwPrNJE
Prime Minister Clement Atlee of Britain
Japan's surrender is announced
Midnight, 14 / 15 August 1945
GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS
VICTORY AND PEACE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCIrNYUCuMg&t=7s
Nation Celebrates
VJ-Day
British Pathé
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66EOCMdEqCI
JAPAN SURRENDERS
Newsreel
Late August 1945
10 min. 53 sec.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaU_hio1ITE&t=8s
10 min. 13 sec.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS4TO7ikryw
JAPANESE SURRENDER TO GENERAL MACARTHUR
2 SEPTEMBER 1945
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Allied Supreme Commander,
accepts Japanese surrender
U. S. S. Missouri
Tokyo Bay
2 September 1945
United News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7REAvk0iJQ
Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcnH_kF1zXc
Excerpt from a documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxUk0STBRIU
JAPANESE SURRENDER TO BRITISH IN SINGAPORE
12 SEPTEMBER 1945
Singapore Surrender
Pathé Gazette
The Instrument of Surrender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orz-3fl7nKM
JAPANESE SURRENDER TO MOUNTBATTEN
SINGAPORE
12 SEPTEMBER 1945
Japs surrender to Lord Louis
Movietone News
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander,
South East Asia Command
Municipal Building
Singapore
12 September 1945
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-TwLXjvORY
Surrender and Occupation of Japan
September 1945
25 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUn07eYE45M
Japanese Surrender More Territory
Newsreels
China, Philippines, Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gWbvOf0Vrs
The Hills of Manchuria
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=098v4nw2biU
The Hills of Manchuria
Central Military Band of the Russian Ministry of Defence
Instrumental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmVKv9xQyrg
God Bless America
Kate Smith
1943
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AOAH2lv3H0
Don't Fence Me In
Roy Rogers
Hollywood Canteen
1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg_zurRBHlg
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