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1945

Franklin Roosevelt dies in April, and Vice President Harry Truman succeeds to the presidency and the burdens of wartime leadership.

The atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima in August, and the world first learns of the role that the Hanford Engineering Works in Eastern Washington played in its production.
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