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Hiroshima is perhaps best known as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the ___MASK60___ Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) dropped an atomic bomb on the city ( and later on Nagasaki ) at 8 : 15 a . m . on August 6 , 1945 , near the end of World War II . The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New ___MASK95___ in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of ___MASK96___ . Its area is about 50 , 000 square km . The Rabaul caldera , or Rabaul Volcano , is a large volcano on the tip of the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain , ___MASK96___ , and derives its name from the town of Rabaul inside the caldera . The caldera has many sub - vents , Tavurvur being the most well known for its devastating eruptions over Rabaul . The outer flanks of the highest peak , a 688 - metre - high asymmetrical pyroclastic shield , are formed by thick pyroclastic flow deposits . There is no sign of a pyroclastic shield along the rim of the caldera , making the location likely underwater , on the caldera ' s floor . The Holocaust ( from the Greek ': " hólos ", " whole " and " kaustós ", " burnt "), also referred to as the Shoah "' ( Hebrew : , " HaShoah ", " the catastrophe "), was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler ' s ___MASK6___ and its collaborators killed about six million Jews . The victims included 1 . 5 million children and represented about two - thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe . Some definitions of the Holocaust include the additional five million non - Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders , bringing the total to about 11 million . Killings took place throughout ___MASK6___ , German - occupied territories , and territories held by allies of ___MASK6___ . An ocean ( the sea of classical antiquity ) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet ' s hydrosphere . On Earth , an ocean is one of the major conventional divisions of the ___MASK22___ Ocean , which covers almost 71 % of its surface . These are , in descending order by area , the Pacific , Atlantic , Indian , Southern ( ___MASK87___ ), and Arctic Oceans . The word " sea " is often used interchangeably with " ocean " in American English but , strictly speaking , a sea is a body of saline water ( generally a division of the world ocean ) partly or fully enclosed by land . New Britain , is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago ( named after Otto von Bismarck ) of ___MASK96___ . It is separated from the island of New Guinea by the Dampier and Vitiaz Straits and from New Ireland by St . George ' s Channel . The main towns of New Britain are Rabaul / Kokopo and Kimbe . The island is roughly the size of Taiwan . While the island was part of German New Guinea , it was named Neupommern (" New Pomerania "). During ___MASK22___ War II , the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second and , to date , last city in the ___MASK22___ to experience a nuclear attack . An island or isle is any piece of sub - continental land that is surrounded by water . Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets , skerries , cays or keys . An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait , and a small island off the coast may be called a holm . A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago , e . g . the ___MASK24___ . A bay is a body of water connected to an ocean or lake , formed by an indentation of the shoreline . A large bay may be called a " gulf ", a " sea ", a " sound ", or a " bight ". A " cove " is a smaller circular or oval coastal inlet with a narrow entrance ; some coves may be referred to as bays . A " fjord " is a particularly steep bay shaped by glacial activity . Vitiaz Strait is a strait between New Britain and the Huon Peninsula , northern New ___MASK95___ . Otto Eduard Leopold , Prince of Bismarck , Duke of Lauenburg ( 1 April 1815  30 July 1898 ), known as Otto von Bismarck , was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890 . In the 1860s , he engineered a series of wars that unified the German states , significantly and deliberately excluding ___MASK73___ , into a powerful ___MASK4___ under Prussian leadership . With that accomplished by 1871 , he skillfully used balance of power diplomacy to maintain Germany ' s position in a Europe which , despite many disputes and war scares , remained at peace . For historian Eric Hobsbawm , it was Bismarck who " remained undisputed world champion at the game of multilateral diplomatic chess for almost twenty years after 1871 , [ and ] devoted himself exclusively , and successfully , to maintaining peace between the powers ." Rabaul is a township in East New Britain province , on the island of New Britain , in the country of ___MASK96___ . New Britain is an island about 60 kilometres to the east of the island of New Guinea . Rabaul was the provincial capital and most important settlement in the province until it was destroyed in 1994 by falling ash of a volcanic eruption . Wide Bay is a bay located to the south of Rabaul , on the southern coast of Gazelle Peninsula of New Britain . It was the location of the Battle of Wide Bay during ___MASK22___ War II in 1945 . New ___MASK95___ ( or , historically , "") is a large Island in the South West Pacific region . Pomerania is a region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe , split between ___MASK76___ and ___MASK19___ . Gazelle Peninsula is a large peninsula in north - eastern New Britain , ___MASK96___ , at . The peninsula was named by Georg Gustav Freiherr von Schleinitz after his ship . The Rabaul caldera is located on the tip of this peninsula . ___MASK96___ ( PNG Hiri Motu : " Papua Niu Gini "), officially the Independent State of ___MASK96___ , is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia , a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia . Its capital , located along its southeastern coast , is Port Moresby . The western half of New Guinea forms the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua . Kimbe is the capital of the province of West New Britain in ___MASK96___ . It is a port town on the great Kimbe Bay which boasts more than 60 percent of the coral species of the entire Indo - Pacific . The bustling town of Kimbe is the third largest port in ___MASK96___ and is the fastest growing city in the South Pacific . Accommodation in Kimbe is readily available in many high - class resorts and hotels , as well as many budget guesthouses and motels dribbled along the province . The town of Kimbe is served by Hoskins Airport . ___MASK79___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK77___ ( ROC ), is a state in East Asia . Neighbors include ___MASK77___ ( officially the People ' s Republic of ___MASK77___ , abbreviated as PRC ) to the west , Japan to the northeast , and the Philippines to the south . ___MASK79___ is the most populous state that is not a member of the United Nations , and the one with the largest economy . Geologically , a fjord or fiord is a long , narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs , created by glacial erosion . There are many fjords on the coasts of Alaska , British Columbia , ___MASK38___ , ___MASK5___ , ___MASK11___ , the Kerguelen Islands , New Zealand , Norway , Novaya Zemlya , Labrador , Nunavut , Newfoundland , Scotland , and Washington state . Norway ' s coastline is estimated at with fjords , but only when fjords are excluded . The ___MASK60___ dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 , 1945 , respectively , during the final stage of World War II . The ___MASK60___ had dropped the bombs with the consent of the United Kingdom as outlined in the ___MASK89___ Agreement . The two bombings , which killed at least 129 , 000 people , remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history . Kokopo is the capital of East New Britain in ___MASK96___ . The capital was moved from Rabaul in 1994 when the volcanoes Tavurvur and Vulcan erupted . As a result , the population of the town increased more than sixfold from 3 , 150 in 1990 to 20 , 262 in 2000 . ___MASK22___ War II ( often abbreviated to WWII or WW2 ), also known as the Second ___MASK22___ War , was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 , although related conflicts began earlier . It involved the vast majority of the ___MASK22___ ' s nations  including all of the great powers  eventually forming two opposing military alliances : the Allies and the Axis . It was the most widespread war in history , and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries . In a state of " total war ", the major participants threw their entire economic , industrial , and scientific capabilities behind the war effort , erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources . Marked by mass deaths of civilians , including the Holocaust ( in which approximately 11 million people were killed ) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres ( in which approximately one million were killed , and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities . These made ___MASK22___ War II the deadliest conflict in human history . German New ___MASK95___ was the first part of the German colonial empire . It was a protectorate from 1884 until 1914 when it fell to Australian forces following the outbreak of the First World War . It consisted of the northeastern part of New ___MASK95___ and several nearby island groups . The mainland part of German New ___MASK95___ and the nearby islands of the Bismarck Archipelago and the North Solomon Islands are now part of ___MASK96___ . The Micronesian islands of German New ___MASK95___ are now governed as the Federated States of Micronesia , the Marshall Islands , Nauru , the Northern Mariana Islands and Palau .