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Rosevelt recieves letter from Einstein suggesting power of new atomic weapon. Rosevelt also orginized the Manhattan project to build the bomb.
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The Manhattan Project was the code name for a group of people working on a nuclear weapon.
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Fermi and his group were able to split the atom in a controlled chain reaction in a labratory.
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D Day is a day where a combat attack or an operation is initiated. This spiciffic D Day is the best one known by people and was the day of the Normandy Landings.
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This bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki was the second atomic bomb that the United States dropped. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only two atomic bombs in the war that were dropped by the United States.
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On this day, Germany finnaly surrendered to their allies and thats what ended World War II. The general of Germany, Alfred Jodl signed the surrender of East and West Germany.
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The bomb was tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico. It was the first atomic bomb that was ever detonated. It was even more power than they inticipitated. Windows on homes 100 miles away got shattered by the bombs explosion.
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The United States droped the fuirst atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was dropped on Japan's main island called Honshu.
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Japan was forced to surrender, due to all of the damage that the bomb left that the United States dropped on them. But they did not want to at first. Eventually everyone did surrender making the war come to an end.
