The letter of the Einstein-Szilard warned President Roosevelt in 1939 that Germany was experimenting for nuclear weapons. The letter was written by Szilard with his two assistants Hungarian physicists (Teller and Wigner) and was signed by Albert Einstein. It stated that Germany may start making nuclear bombs and that the United States had better watch out for this.
President Franklin Roosevelt had a swift response to this and started the Manhattan Project, which was a research project that developed and produced the first atomic explosive/bomb during the time of Second World War.
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Nelson Mandela set up the African National Congress' armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), in 1961 when he lost hope that passive and non-violent resistance to the apartheid government would bear fruit.
The correct statement that shows the impact of President Roosevelt’s executive order is Option D) Japanese Americans were hired for defense jobs as a show of good faith by the US government.
With World War II already in swing by 1941, the Japanese were increasingly characterized as the enemies. Things had further deteriorated after the Pearl Harbor bombings.
Japanese were discriminated against and were known by the racial slur 'Japs'
The President's executive order helped to improve the situations of Japanese Americans.
In 1989, a group of students led a protest in Tiananman Square, in Central China. After the Cultural Revolution has ended with the death Mao Zedong in 1979, there was economic and civil unrest. Because of this movement spearheaded by Mao, China faced poverty that they had never seen before. Shortly before his death Dong Xioaping was made the de facto leader of China in 1978. Reforms were set up by him and this led to a huge downturn. Deaths of prime political figures and a disembodied education system were to follow in only 11 years time. In 1989, a group of brave students took arms in the forms of words and signs to protest to demand scholarships for higher education, these "riots" were seen by the un-democratic and corrupt government of China as a threat, and military action was taken. It resulted in a huge causality rate, that of a massacre.
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<span>B. They allowed for greater economic, political, and cultural freedom than before.</span>
