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This order, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorized the evacuation from the West Coast of all persons deemed a national security threat to relocation sites further inland.
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During World War II, the Manhattan Project was a research and development project that resulted in the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States, with the United Kingdom and Canada on board.
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The G.I. Bill, also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a statute that granted a variety of benefits to returning World War II soldiers. Although the original G.I. Bill was repealed in 1956, the name "G.I.
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Roosevelt's physical condition began to deteriorate throughout the last years of the war, and he died on April 12, 1945, less than three months into his fourth term. Vice President Harry S. Truman was elected president and oversaw the Axis forces' acceptance of capitulation.
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In August 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 210,000 people, including children, women, and men. In an effort to force Japan's surrender in World War II, President Truman authorized the deployment of atomic weapons.
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No individual shall be elected to the office of President more than twice, and no person shall be elected to the office of President more than once if he or she has held the office of President, or functioned as President, for more than two years of a term to which another person was elected President.
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The first hydrogen bomb was constructed by Edward Teller, Stanislaw M. Ulam, and other American scientists and tested on November 1, 1952, at Enewetak Atoll. On August 12, 1953, the Soviet Union conducted the first hydrogen bomb test.
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From 1953 until 1961, Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States.