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Elections in Britain result in a Labour Party landslide; Clement Attlee succeeds Churchill as prime minister.
6 Aug.
The U.S. Superfortress bomber Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing more than 50,000 people and leveling four square miles of the city.
8 Aug.
The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and attacks Japanese forces in Manchuria the next day.
9 Aug.
The United States detonates an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing more than 40,000 people and destroying a third of the city.
10 Aug.
The Japanese Supreme Council votes to accept the surrender terms of the Potsdam Declaration.
14 Aug.
The Soviet government concludes a treaty with the Chinese Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek.
15 Aug.
V-J Day. The Allies accept the unconditional surrender of the Japanese. The French sentence Petain to death as a Nazi collaborator; the sentence is later commuted to life imprisonment.
28 Aug.
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