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35 Cards in this Set
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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the president that orders an effort to create the atomic bomb
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december 6, 1941
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Pearl Harbor
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Leslie Groves
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the military head of the Manhattan project
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Robert Oppenheimer
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the scientific head of the of the Manhattan project
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Claus Fuchs
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Russian spy in Los Alamos
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Paul Tibbets
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leader of the unit that dropped the bomb
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little boy
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the uranium bomb
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fat man
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the plutonium bomb
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harry truman
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the president after FDR that completed the Manhattan Project
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august 9th, 1945
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fat man was dropped on Nagasaki
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august 6th, 1945
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little boy was dropped
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august 15th, 1945
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japan surrenders - victory in Japan Day
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What type of organism uses endotoxin?
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Most gram- bacteria and Listeria
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abstinence
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self-restraint
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notorious
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widely but unfavorably known
infamous |
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philanthropies
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goodwill to others
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hedonistic
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living a life of pleasure/self-indulgence
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incendiary
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causing or designed to cause fires
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convivial
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social - jovial
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xenophobic
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having a fear or a hatred of foreigners
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repugnant
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distasteful, offensive, disagreeable
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conflagration
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a large destructive fire
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automaton
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a person acting on a mechanical way
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apathetic
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indifferent
unemotional |
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dilapidation
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the condition of falling to pieces
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razed
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completely destroyed to the ground
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compelling
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forceful
demanding attention |
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cremate
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to burn a body after death
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refugee
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one who flees to escape danger
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inconsolable
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incapable of being comforted
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moribund
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approaching death
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disheveled
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marked by disorder or dismay
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capricious
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sudden, unpredictable
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verdancy
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green vegetation
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exhilarate
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make cheerful
enliven excite |
