Harry S. Truman: Statement Announcing the Use of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

( 1945 ) Commentary by Tom Lansford, University of Southern Mississippi

Glossary

Churchill Winston Churchill, British prime minister during World War II
Pearl Harbor the site of a U.S. naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, drawing the United States into World War II
Potsdam a German city southwest of Berlin, Germany, and the site of a major peace conference among the Allied powers after World War II
Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt, thirty-second U.S. president and president during most of World War II
TNT abbreviation for 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, a chemical whose explosive power is often the standard by which other explosives are measured

Harry S. Truman (Library of Congress)

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