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D. Guam was just one of the islands the United States gained in the 10-week Spanish-American War. It also gained Puerto Rico and the Philippines and great influence over a newly independent Cuba. The Philippines gained its independence after World War II. During that war, both Guam and the Philippines were captured and occupied by Japan and later recaptured by the United States.
B. Japan’s defense minister warned that his nation could shoot down any North Korean missiles fired at Guam.
C. On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. The bombing came three days after the world’s first nuclear attack devastated the city of Hiroshima. Within the first two to four months following the bombings, the acute effects of the atomic bombings had killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 in Nagasaki. Japan surrendered six days after the Nagasaki bombing.
A. Metropolitan Seoul houses about half of South Korea’s 51 million people and is well within the range of 15,000 North Korean cannons and rocket launchers on the border just 35 miles away from the city.