Journal 72 – Hiroshima’s tragedy the 52 anniversary

Today is August 6, 2007. All people in the world remember Hiroshima, this Japanese city on which the first atomic bomb used was dropped.
It was the summer time in the year 1945. The Second World War was over in Europe in May 9, 1945. In the Pacific Ocean WW II was still going; it Japanese didn’t surrender. In April 1945, President Delano Roosevelt passed away. Hurry Truman took power after Roosevelt’s death. The United States plane dropped a single atomic bomb on the center of the city. Three days later, the Allies dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki. Japan surrendered to the Allied forces on September 2, 1945. The atomic bomb destroyed about 5 square miles of the city. About 100,000 people are estimated to have been killed by the bomb. Many people died later from the effects of radiation.
Hiroshima, which lies on islands formed by a river delta on the shore of the Inland Sea, was rebuilt after the war.