History of the United States II / Unit 12 USH2 1702 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hiroshima
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The idea
At eight fifteen on the morning of August sixth, nineteen forty-five, the bomber Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb called Little Boy on Hiroshima.
In practice
Two-thirds of the city's buildings destroyed.
Where people slip
The anchor gives about seventy thousand killed in the blast and as many again from radiation; the Yawp gives over one hundred thousand civilians killed.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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