Chapter 23

Quiz for Document 23-6: Harry Truman, Statement by the President Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb at Hiroshima (1945)

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Question 1

President Harry Truman’s announcement that the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima includes considerable detail about why and how the atomic bomb program was located in the United States and why the scientific knowledge and technology associated with the project had been kept secret. Truman most likely decided to include this information in his announcement in order to justify his decision to whom?A. The American people
B. The Japanese
C. The allies of the U.S.
D. The international scientific community

Question 2

What reason does Truman give for having housed a joint U.S.-British operation entirely inside the United States?A. American scientists had superior technical knowledge.
B. Great Britain remained vulnerable to Germany.
C. The United States was closer geographically to Japan.
D. Uranium was more plentiful in North America.

Question 3

Truman announces that, contrary to the generally accepted way in which scientific knowledge is communicated, the production of atomic energy would remain a closely guarded secret becauseA. atomic energy production must be controlled as it presents the risk of sudden mass destruction.
B. Russia will use the knowledge to enslave Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia.
C. the U.S. has invested too much money on the research to share it with others.
D. U.S. economic and political structures are the only remaining stable structures on the globe.

Question 4

What event, according to Truman, led the U.S. to use the new atomic weapons on Japan?A. Hirohito’s agreement to join the war with Nazi Germany
B. Imperial Japan’s treatment of American POWs at Bataan
C. Japanese rejection of the Potsdam ultimatum
D. Russia’s invasion of the Korean peninsula