The federal government did not have enough power causing the states to be chaotic due to how much power they had under the Articles of Confederation.
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The most notable is the atomic bomb. Roosevelt became aware that the Nazis were trying to develop one, so he started the "Manhattan Project" which was a group of elite scientists tasked with developing their own atomic bomb. They eventually succeeded, and in 1945, we dropped the bomb on Japan.