Question

With reference to the newspaper headline given below, what is meant by V-J Day and what made Japan to surrender to the Allies.

Answer 1

About 1,50,000 persons died instantly as a result of the bombing of Hiroshima, and almost three-fourths of the city’s buildings were destroyed. About 50,000 people died at Nagasaki as well, and almost one-third of the city was destroyed. On August 14, 1945, Japan submitted to the Allied Powers because she could not afford to suffer this devastation.