On This Day - What happened 10 August 1945 AD - Historydraft

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Japan
Friday Aug 10, 1945
Harry S. Truman
Japan agreed to surrender
Japan
Friday Aug 10, 1945
Japan agreed to surrender the following day.

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Korea
Friday Aug 10, 1945
Korean War
The Red Army had begun to occupy the northern part of the Korean Peninsula
Korea
Friday Aug 10, 1945
By 10 August, the Red Army had begun to occupy the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.

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Washington D.C., U.S.
Friday Aug 10, 1945
Korean War
Dividing the Korean Peninsula into Soviet and US occupation zones
Washington D.C., U.S.
Friday Aug 10, 1945
On the night of 10 August in Washington, US Colonels Dean Rusk and Charles H. Bonesteel III were assigned with dividing the Korean Peninsula into Soviet and US occupation zones and proposed the 38th Parallel.

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Tokyo, Japan
Friday Aug 10, 1945
Hirohito
The Cabinet drafted an "Imperial Rescript Ending The War"
Tokyo, Japan
Friday Aug 10, 1945
Everything changed after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet declaration of war. And on August 10, the cabinet drafted an "Imperial Rescript ending the War" following the Emperor's indications that the declaration did not compromise any demand which prejudiced the prerogatives of His Majesty as a Sovereign Ruler.

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