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FDR (1)
FDR (1)
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initials of
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
, (1882 - 1945) thirty-
second
president
of the US from 1933 to 1945. During
World War II
(1939 - 1945),
Roosevelt
began the
research
project
which produced the
atomic bomb
, a weapon that after his
death
brought a quick but highly controversial end to the
war
. He died a few weeks before
Germany
surrendered and before the end of the
war
with Japan.
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