World Flash cards U7.4

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Manhattan Project

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United States project in World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

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During the holocaust of WWII, who did the Nazis persecute?

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Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Jehovah Witnesses and others

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The end of the war in the Pacific is known as

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V.J. Day

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The two cities destroyed by American atomic bombs were: Hiroshima and Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tokyo and Nagasaki, Hokaido and Nagoya

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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The biggest reasons President Truman decided to use nuclear bombs on Japan was his belief that it would end the war sooner and save: $1 trillion dollars, 5 more years of war, over 1 million American soldiers' lives, the loyalty of Japanese-American citizens

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over 1 million American soldiers' lives

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Who was Dr. Robert Oppenheimer?

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a physicist who led the atomic bomb project for the United States

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The United States airplane that delivered the nuclear bombs was

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B-29

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When did United States President Franklin D Roosevelt die?

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Shortly before Soviet troops entered Berlin Germany and the war in Europe ended.

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The Potsdam Declaration

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specified the Allies would warn Japan before using the new atomic bomb

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The planned extermination of Jewish people in death camps was called

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The Final Solution