Surrender of The Empire of Japan

Surrender Of The Empire Of Japan

The Surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, brought World War Two to an end. On July 1945, the Empire Of Japan was not capable of conducting operations. The surrender of the Japanese was due to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using two different atomic bombs, Little Boy and Fat Man respectively. These two bombs are a deadly kind of nuclear bombs which destroyed both cities , just by using a single bomb.

On August 6 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Late in the evening of August 8 1945, the Soviet Union declared war with the Empire of Japan, and on midnight of August 9 1945, the Soviet Union invaded Japan's Manchukuo. Later that day, the United States dropped another atomic bomb, this time on the city of Nagasaki.The Emperor Of Japan announced the surrender of the Empire of Japan to the Allies soon after.

Throughout the day, confused reports reached Tokyo that Hiroshima had been the target of an air raid, which had leveled the city with a "blinding flash and violent blast" when news of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

U.S Flag

Some found it hard to believe that the United States had built an atomic bomb. The Chief of the Naval General Staff, argued that even if the United States had made one, they could not have many more. American strategists, having anticipated a reaction like that, dropped a second bomb shortly, to convince the Japanese that the U.S. had a large supply of these bombs.

Mushroom Shaped Fog
 when Atomic Bomb was dropped

Official surrender of the Japanese taking place.

MacArthur arrived in Tokyo on August 30 to state several rules such as no Allied personnel were to assault Japanese people, no Allied personnel were to eat the scarce amount of Japanese food and flying the Hinomaru  flag was severely restricted.

The formal surrender occurred on September 2, 1945 when representatives from the Imperial Of Japan signed the Japanese Instrument Of Surrender in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri.

USS Missouri

The state of war between the United States and Japan officially ended when the Treaty Of San Francisco took effect on April 28, 1952. Japan and the Soviet Union formally made peace four years later, when they signed the Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956.


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan ( Date Found: 18 February 2013 )
Video URL : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EqRTWMVqMY ( Date Found: 18 February 2013 )
Images from Google Image ( Date Found: 18 February 2013 )