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The day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gave the go-ahead to scientists to develop an atomic bomb. This site gives a good overview of the war in the Pacific against Japan, the increasing successes of the US navy, and the debate about whether an atomic bomb should be dropped on Japan in 1945. Included are suggested student exercises in regard to the information. [pdf]
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admiral nimitz, admiral yamamoto, atomic boming of japan, battle of the coral sea, digital history, doolittle raid, general curtis lemay, general douglas macarthur, interim committee, iwo jima, kamikaze, manhattan project, midway island, okinawa, pacific theater, port moresby naval battle, president harry s. truman, word war ii, atomic bomb, war against japan, war in the pacific
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- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
- This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information