Page 98 - DK Life Stories Albert Einstein by AELC

By 1945, the Nazis were losing the war.

Finally, in April, soldiers from the Soviet Union
surrounded the German capital of Berlin.

Hitler chose to take his own life rather than
be captured, and Germany surrendered

shortly after that.
Japan, however, was determined to

continue the war in the Pacific. US president
Harry S. Truman (Roosevelt had died by this

point) realized that this could mean many more
years of fighting. So, he decided to allow the

military to use two of the atomic bombs
created through the Manhattan Project.

Hot off the press—Allied
soldiers read about
Germany’s surrender
in The Stars and Stripes
military newspaper,
May 1945.

96

US_092-101_Albert_Einstein_Chapter_9.indd 96 31/07/18 2:37 PM