What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima? (What Was?)

by Jess Brallier (Author) Tim Foley (Illustrator)

What Was the Bombing of Hiroshima? (What Was?)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade
Series: What Was?
Hiroshima is where the first atomic bomb was dropped. Now readers will learn the reasons why and what it's meant for the world ever since. By August 1945, World War II was over in Europe, but the fighting continued between American forces and the Japanese, who were losing but determined to fight till the bitter end. And so it fell to a new president--Harry S. Truman--to make the fateful decision to drop two atomic bombs--one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki--and bring the war to rapid close. Now, even seventy years later, can anyone know if this was the right choice? In a thoughtful account of these history-changing events, Jess Brallier explains the leadup to the bombing, what the terrible results of it were, and how the threat of atomic war has colored world events since.
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Jess Brallier
Jess Brallier is the publisher of Planet Dexter and the author of more than 20 books. He lives in Reading, MA.
Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781524792664
Lexile Measure
870
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Publication date
March 20, 2020
Series
What Was?
BISAC categories
JNF025130 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | Military & Wars
JNF061010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology | Inventions
JNF038020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | Asia
Library of Congress categories
History
World War, 1939-1945
Japan
Atomic bomb
Bombardment, 1945
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Hiroshima-shi

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