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May 1945 - Summer of Trinity

May 1945 - Summer of Trinity

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A introduction to the state of the world in May 1945.

  • FDR is dead.
  • Truman is President, only three months after he became vice-president.
  • The Battle of Okinawa is ongoing - it had started on April 1st.
  • USS Indianapolis is in San Francisco for repairs from a kamikaze attack in the waters around Okinawa, just before the invasion began.
  • The USSR has just ended its non-agression pact with the Empire of Japan.
  • Mussoline is dead, killed on April 28
  • Hitler is dead by suicide on April 30.
  • Nazi Germany is defeated on May 8.
  • The long-term coalition government in the UK ends with the victory over Germany.
  • Churchill has requested that elections be held, around the beginning of July.
  • In Los Alamos, the Manhattan Project team awaits deliveries of uranium and plutonium to use in their Little Boy and Fat Man designs.
  • And although nobody realizes it for certain, the war is nearly over.

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