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1945 The year is 1945. The world has finally started to recover from the great depression and things are starting to go well economically. Swing music and dancing along with jazz are in full swing. Women are starting to be seen more in the work place and our boys were winning the war. People seem happy on the outside, but on the inside people are living in fear. All over the world mothers are wondering if their sons are going to make it home alive from the war. Wives of these brave men are wondering the same. People everywhere are living in fear knowing that the atomic bomb could be dropped any minute, anywhere. Towards the end of the war in 1945, people were living in fear. As everyone knows, the year 1945 marks the end of World War II. In February the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union met to decide the fate of the soon to be defeated Germany. They decided that Germany would be divided along with all of its acquisitions. The Soviet Union would get half of Poland. Then the Soviet Union decided to declare war on Japan. By now almost all of the mess that Germany had created had been delt with and ended. On May 8, 1945, Germany surrendered. They had been invaded from all directions. The United States and Britain moved in from the East, and the Soviet Union moved in from the West. Adolf Hitler had committed suicide eight days earlier on April 30, 1945 in his underground bunker. Germany was defeated. Now the big problem was the Japanese. Japan was a great problem to the United States. After all it was Japan that drug the United States into the war by bombing Pearl Harbor. Both side had been fighting back and forth for a long while and nether was really getting anywhere, although the United States probably had the upper hand. The war had been dragging on for almost six years and it needed to be ended. For a long time the United States had been toying with the idea of the atomic bomb. But there was still a great deal of uncertainty. Because of this uncertainty people lived in fear everyday knowing that it could come at any moment. The people tried to prepare with practice drills in case of an air raid. The drills really wouldn’t help to save them and people knew it in the back of their minds.

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