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Question 1

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.

Question 2

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.

Question 3

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.

Question 4

What was the result of the Trinity Test in 1945?

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Scientists realized how powerful the nuclear bomb was.

Question 5

Although Leo Szilard conducted the first atomic research, he was opposed to

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dropping atomic bombs on Japan.

Question 6

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

Question 7

What was a concern of some scientists after the Manhattan Project?

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With Germany defeated, they did not think there was a need for an atomic weapon.

Question 8

Which caused the US Army to take over the atomic research project being conducted at Columbia University in the early 1940s?

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a letter from Albert Einstein

Question 9

Supporters of using the atomic bomb against Japan believed it would

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save American lives.

Question 10

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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