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When did the Soviet Union invade Manchuria?
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atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A gigantic mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, after a U.S. aircraft dropped an atomic bomb on the city, immediately killing more than 70,000 people.
The Soviet Union declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945, and invaded Manchuria early on August 9, 1945.12