Educational Media Awareness Campaign/History/POTD


Hiroshima after the Atomic Bomb
This photograph shows a view over the Japanese city of Hiroshima after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city in 1945. The Hiroshima bombing was one of two atomic attacks on Japan which effectively ended the Second World War and killed about 140,000 to 220,000 inhabitants in the short term. Click on the image for a full size version which you can freely re-use and modify. Print it and use it for your lessons, integrate it into your pages on Wikiversity, or use it in other learning resources and websites. Use the links below to find more images like this one.

Images of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Images of World War II - Images of the history of Japan
The Wikimedia Atlas of World War II
History images in general


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