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End Of War In The Pacific

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20 August 2022
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Which statement best describes the Manhattan Project during World War II?
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It was a large project that employed many people at several sites across the United States.
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What was a major concern of scientists who left Nazi Germany for the United States before World War II?
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They feared Germany was trying to develop nuclear weapons.
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The town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, was built by the US government in the early 1940s as a site
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for research on atomic weapons.
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Which scientist is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" because of his work as the head of the Manhattan Project?
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Robert Oppenheimer
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How did the US change the government of Japan after World War II?
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It created a democratic government.
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Changes made by the United States after World War II affected the agricultural system in Japan by
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allowing farmers to buy the land they farmed.
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Which caused the US Army to take over atomic research in the early 1940s?
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the US entry into World War II
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A strategy President Truman and his advisers considered to end World War II was
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continuing to fight the war the same way.
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Supporters of using the atomic bomb against Japan believed it would
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save American lives.
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A result of the atomic bombs dropped by the US on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was that
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Japan surrendered within a few days.