HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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proposing the Lend-Lease Act
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creating the Manhattan project
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declaring war on the Axis powers
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In late 1941, the American effort to design and build an atomic bomb received its code name-the Manhattan Project. At first the research was based at only a few universities-Columbia University, the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley.
Detailed explanation-2: -Einstein had written to inform Roosevelt that recent research on fission chain reactions utilizing uranium made it probable that large amounts of power could be produced by a chain reaction and that, by harnessing this power, the construction of “extremely powerful bombs” was conceivable.
Detailed explanation-3: -President Truman authorized the use of the atom bombs in an effort to bring about Japan’s surrender in the Second World War. In the days following the bombings Japan surrendered. The Manhattan Project was the US government program during World War II that developed and built these first atomic bombs.