World War II altered the landscape of social and political structures across the globe. A denazification program in Germany led to the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg trials as well as the removal of all former Nazis from power.
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
On August 6 and August 9, 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The detonations killed between 129,000 and 226,000 individuals, almost all of whom were civilians. Weapons were never used in armed conflict again.
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