HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the plan to attack New York
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Hitlers building of the atomic bomb
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FDRs response to building the atomic bomb
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Japan’s plan to attack America
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Detailed explanation-1: -Roosevelt responded by forming a scientific committee to study whether a nuclear weapon was feasible. Later, he established the “Manhattan Project, ‘’ a top-secret effort to build an atomic bomb. At a 1944 conference in Hyde Park, FDR and Churchill agreed to keep the bomb project secret from Soviet leader Stalin.
Detailed explanation-2: -What did the Manhattan Project do? The Manhattan Project produced the first atomic bomb. Several lines of research were pursued simultaneously. Both electromagnetic and fusion methods of separating the fissionable uranium-235 from uranium-238 were explored at Oak Ridge in Tennessee.
Detailed explanation-3: -In August 1939, Einstein wrote to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him that the Nazis were working on a new and powerful weapon: an atomic bomb.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.