THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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recruit men for the military services
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defend New Your City against a nuclear attack
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increase economic production to meet wartime demands
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work on the development of an atomic bomb
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Manhattan Project was started in response to fears that German scientists had been working on a weapon using nuclear technology since the 1930s-and that Adolf Hitler was prepared to use it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eight months after the United States entered World War II, the federal government launched the Manhattan Project, an all-out, but highly secret, effort to build an atomic bomb – and to build one before the Germans did.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Manhattan Project was the US government program during World War II that developed and built these first atomic bombs. Detonation of these first nuclear bombs signaled arrival of a frightening new Atomic Age.
Detailed explanation-4: -Far away from public sight, the most consequential scientific innovation during World War II was the creation of the atomic bomb through the top-secret Manhattan Project.