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AssignmentMultiple Choice

War Crimes and the Holocaust

Question 1 • LUSD-US History(B) (A-G)

Which statement best summarizes the purpose of the Manhattan Project?

Answer
A
to study the potentially dangerous consequences of using atomic weapons
B
to gauge how close Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were to developing atomic weapons
C
to process uranium and use it to build and perfect atomic weapons

Explanation

The Manhattan Project was the U.S.-led program during World War II to develop the first atomic bombs. It included processing uranium and other materials and designing and testing the weapons, so choice C best summarizes its purpose. Studying the dangers of atomic weapons was not the project’s main goal, and it was not primarily a program to assess Soviet progress.

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