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Hiroshima
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
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- She was in Hiroshima when the United States Air Force dropped an atom bomb on that city in an attempt to end World War II.†
p. 7.4 *Hiroshima = port city in Japan that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
- Many still died from the disease, even though the atom bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima nine years before.†
p. 13.2
- The atom bomb—the Thunderbolt—had turned Hiroshima into a desert.†
p. 16.8
- In 1958 the statue was unveiled in the Hiroshima Peace Park.†
p. 64.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(Hiroshima) port city in Japan; on August 6, 1945 it was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)