Question

What is the significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

They were Japanese leaders who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.
They were cities in Japan where decisive land battles were fought.
They were cities in Japan where the US dropped atomic bombs.
They were Pacific islands captured by US forces as they approached Japan.

Answer 1

C.) They were cities in Japan where the US dropped atomic bombs.

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Answer 2

C. They were cities in Japan where the US dropped atomic bombs

Hiroshima
City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

Nagasaki
Japanese city devastated during World War II when the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Aug 8th, 1945.