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On 23 February, the 28th Marine Regiment reached the summit of Suribachi, prompting the now famous Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima picture. Navy Secretary James Forrestal, upon seeing the flag, remarked "there will be a Marine Corps for the next 500 years." The flag raising is often cited as the most reproduced photograph of all time and became the archetypal representation not only of that battle, but of the entire Pacific War. For the rest of February, the Americans pushed north, and by 1 March, had taken two-thirds of the island. But it was not until 26 March that the island was finally secured. The Japanese fought to the last man, killing 6,800 Marines and wounding nearly 20,000 more. The Japanese losses totaled well over 20,000 men killed, and only 1,083 prisoners were taken. Historians debate whether it was strategically worth the casualties sustained.

Question: What marine regiment reached the summit of Mount Suribachi?
Answer: 28th

Question: When was the summit of Mount Suribachi reached by U.S. marines?
Answer: 23 February

Question: Who said "there will be a Marine Corps for the next 500 years"?
Answer: Navy Secretary James Forrestal

Question: When was the island of Iwo Jima secured by the Americans?
Answer: 26 March

Question: How many Japanese prisoners were taken on Iwo Jima?
Answer: 1,083
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During April, Fourteenth Army advanced 300 miles (480 km) south towards Rangoon, the capital and principal port of Burma, but was delayed by Japanese rearguards 40 miles (64 km) north of Rangoon at the end of the month. Slim feared that the Japanese would defend Rangoon house-to-house during the monsoon, placing his army in a disastrous supply situation, and in March he had asked that a plan to capture Rangoon by an amphibious force, Operation Dracula, which had been abandoned earlier, be reinstated. Dracula was launched on 1 May, but Rangoon was found to have been abandoned. The troops which occupied Rangoon linked up with Fourteenth Army five days later, securing the Allies' lines of communication.

Question: What was the capital of Burma?
Answer: Rangoon

Question: What was the principle port of Burma?
Answer: Rangoon

Question: When was Operation Dracula launched?
Answer: 1 May

Question: What force was delayed by Japanese rearguards north of Rangoon?
Answer: Fourteenth Army

Question: What month was a delay caused by Japanese rearguards north of Rangoon?
Answer: April
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By April 1945, China had already been at war with Japan for more than seven years. Both nations were exhausted by years of battles, bombings and blockades. After Japanese victories in Operation Ichi-Go, Japan were losing the battle in Burma and facing constant attacks from Chinese Nationalists forces and Communist guerrillas in the country side. The Japanese army began preparations for the Battle of West Hunan in March 1945. Japanese mobilized 34th, 47th, 64th, 68th and 116th Divisions, as well as the 86th Independent Brigade, for a total of 80,000 men to seize Chinese airfields and secure railroads in West Hunan by early April. In response, the Chinese National Military Council dispatched the 4th Front Army and the 10th and 27th Army Groups with He Yingqin as commander-in-chief. At the same time, it airlifted the entire Chinese New 6th Corps, an American-equipped corps and veterans of the Burma Expeditionary Force, from Kunming to Zhijiang. Chinese forces totaled 110,000 men in 20 divisions. They were supported by about 400 aircraft from Chinese and American air forces. Chinese forces achieved a decisive victory and launched a large counterattack in this campaign. Concurrently, the Chinese managed to repel a Japanese offensive in Henan and Hubei. Afterwards, Chinese forces retook Hunan and Hubei provinces in South China. Chinese launched a counter offensive to retake Guangxi which was the last major Japanese stronghold in South China. In August 1945, Chinese forces successfully retook Guangxi.[citation needed]

Question: In 1945, how many years had Japan already been at war with China?
Answer: seven

Question: What battle did the Japanese Army begin to prepare for in March 1945?
Answer: Battle of West Hunan

Question: How many Japanese soldiers were mobilized to capture the Chinese airfields and railroads in West Hunan?
Answer: 80,000

Question: Who was the Chinese commander-in-chief of the 10th and 27th Army Groups?
Answer: He Yingqin

Question: When did Chinese forces retake Guangxi?
Answer: August 1945
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The largest and bloodiest American battle came at Okinawa, as the U.S. sought airbases for 3,000 B-29 bombers and 240 squadrons of B-17 bombers for the intense bombardment of Japan's home islands in preparation for a full-scale invasion in late 1945. The Japanese, with 115,000 troops augmented by thousands of civilians on the heavily populated island, did not resist on the beaches—their strategy was to maximize the number of soldier and Marine casualties, and naval losses from Kamikaze attacks. After an intense bombardment the Americans landed on 1 April 1945 and declared victory on 21 June. The supporting naval forces were the targets for 4,000 sorties, many by Kamikaze suicide planes. U.S. losses totaled 38 ships of all types sunk and 368 damaged with 4,900 sailors killed. The Americans suffered 75,000 casualties on the ground; 94% of the Japanese soldiers died along with many civilians.

Question: How many B-29 bombers were airbases need for in Okinawa?
Answer: 3,000

Question: How many squadrons of B=17 bombers were airbases need for in Okinawa?
Answer: 240

Question: How many Japanese troops were on Okinawa?
Answer: 115,000

Question: When did the United States land forces on Okinawa?
Answer: 1 April 1945

Question: How many U.S. ships were lost at Okinawa?
Answer: 38
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Hard-fought battles on the Japanese home islands of Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and others resulted in horrific casualties on both sides but finally produced a Japanese defeat. Of the 117,000 Japanese troops defending Okinawa, 94 percent died. Faced with the loss of most of their experienced pilots, the Japanese increased their use of kamikaze tactics in an attempt to create unacceptably high casualties for the Allies. The U.S. Navy proposed to force a Japanese surrender through a total naval blockade and air raids.

Question: What percent of Japanese troops died on Okinawa?
Answer: 94

Question: Using a total blockade and air raids, what did the US Navy hope to force?
Answer: Japanese surrender

Question: How many Japanese troops defended Okinawa?
Answer: 117,000

Question: How did the Japanese attempt to cause high Allied casualties?
Answer: kamikaze tactics
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Towards the end of the war as the role of strategic bombing became more important, a new command for the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific was created to oversee all U.S. strategic bombing in the hemisphere, under United States Army Air Forces General Curtis LeMay. Japanese industrial production plunged as nearly half of the built-up areas of 67 cities were destroyed by B-29 firebombing raids. On 9–10 March 1945 alone, about 100,000 people were killed in a conflagration caused by an incendiary attack on Tokyo. LeMay also oversaw Operation Starvation, in which the inland waterways of Japan were extensively mined by air, which disrupted the small amount of remaining Japanese coastal sea traffic. On 26 July 1945, the President of the United States Harry S. Truman, the President of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek and the Prime Minister of Great Britain Winston Churchill issued the Potsdam Declaration, which outlined the terms of surrender for the Empire of Japan as agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference. This ultimatum stated that, if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter destruction."

Question: Who was over the new U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific command?
Answer: General Curtis LeMay

Question: How many people were killed in the incendry attack on Tokyo on March 9-10, 1945?
Answer: 100,000

Question: Who oversaw Operation Starvation?
Answer: General Curtis LeMay

Question: When was the Potsdam Declaration issued?
Answer: 26 July 1945

Question: What ultimatum stated that Japan would face "prompt and utter destruction" if it did not surrender?
Answer: Potsdam Declaration
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On 6 August 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in the first nuclear attack in history. In a press release issued after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Truman warned Japan to surrender or "...expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth." Three days later, on 9 August, the U.S. dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, the last nuclear attack in history. More than 140,000–240,000 people died as a direct result of these two bombings. The necessity of the atomic bombings has long been debated, with detractors claiming that a naval blockade and aerial bombing campaign had already made invasion, hence the atomic bomb, unnecessary. However, other scholars have argued that the bombings shocked the Japanese government into surrender, with Emperor finally indicating his wish to stop the war. Another argument in favor of the atomic bombs is that they helped avoid Operation Downfall, or a prolonged blockade and bombing campaign, any of which would have exacted much higher casualties among Japanese civilians. Historian Richard B. Frank wrote that a Soviet invasion of Japan was never likely because they had insufficient naval capability to mount an amphibious invasion of Hokkaidō.

Question: America dropped what on August 6, 1945?
Answer: atomic bomb

Question: What was the forst Japenese city nuked by the United States?
Answer: Hiroshima

Question: When did American drop a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki?
Answer: 9 August

Question: What was the name of the blockade and bombing of Japan planed to make them surrender?
Answer: Operation Downfall

Question: Who wrote that a Soviet invasion of Japan was unlikely?
Answer: Richard B. Frank
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The Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation began on 9 August 1945, with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and was the last campaign of the Second World War and the largest of the 1945 Soviet–Japanese War which resumed hostilities between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan after almost six years of peace. Soviet gains on the continent were Manchukuo, Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia) and northern Korea. The rapid defeat of Japan's Kwantung Army has been argued to be a significant factor in the Japanese surrender and the end of World War II, as Japan realized the Soviets were willing and able to take the cost of invasion of its Home Islands, after their rapid conquest of Manchuria and Invasion of South Sakhalin island.

Question: When did the soviet Union invade Manchukuo?
Answer: 9 August 1945

Question: What was the last campaign of World War II?
Answer: Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation

Question: What was the largest campaign of the Soviets against Japan?
Answer: Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation

Question: Who gained Manchukuo, Mengjiang, and northern Korea after the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Campaign?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: When did hostilities between Japan and the Soviet Union resum after six years of peace?
Answer: 9 August 1945
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The effects of the "Twin Shocks"—the Soviet entry and the atomic bombing—were profound. On 10 August the "sacred decision" was made by Japanese Cabinet to accept the Potsdam terms on one condition: the "prerogative of His Majesty as a Sovereign Ruler". At noon on 15 August, after the American government's intentionally ambiguous reply, stating that the "authority" of the emperor "shall be subject to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers", the Emperor broadcast to the nation and to the world at large the rescript of surrender, ending the Second World War.

Question: How did the Japanese refer to the atomic bombings and the Soviet invasion?
Answer: "Twin Shocks"

Question: When did Japan surrender?
Answer: 15 August

Question: What was the one condition Japan wanted before accepting the Potsdam terms?
Answer: "prerogative of His Majesty as a Sovereign Ruler"

Question: What was the reply to Japan about the surrender condition?
Answer: "authority" of the emperor "shall be subject to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers"

Question: What was it called when the Japanese Cabinet accepted the Potsdam terms?
Answer: "sacred decision"
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In Japan, 14 August is considered to be the day that the Pacific War ended. However, as Imperial Japan actually surrendered on 15 August, this day became known in the English-speaking countries as "V-J Day" (Victory in Japan). The formal Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed on 2 September 1945, on the battleship USS Missouri, in Tokyo Bay. The surrender was accepted by General Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, with representatives of several Allied nations, from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu and Yoshijiro Umezu.

Question: What date does Japan consider the end of the Pacific War?
Answer: 14 August

Question: What day is know in the United States as "V-J Day"?
Answer: 15 August

Question: When did Japan formally have signed the surrender?
Answer: 2 September 1945

Question: On what battleship was the surrender document signed by the Japanese delagation?
Answer: USS Missouri

Question: Who accepted the Japanese surrender?
Answer: General Douglas MacArthur
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A widely publicised example of institutionalised sexual slavery are "comfort women", a euphemism for the 200,000 women, mostly from Korea and China, who served in the Japanese army's camps during World War II. Some 35 Dutch comfort women brought a successful case before the Batavia Military Tribunal in 1948. In 1993, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono said that women were coerced into brothels run by Japan's wartime military. Other Japanese leaders have apologized, including former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2001. In 2007, then-Prime Minister Shinzō Abe claimed: "The fact is, there is no evidence to prove there was coercion."

Question: How many women are believed to have been sexual slaves for the Japenese Army?
Answer: 200,000

Question: In 1948, how many Dutch women brought a case to the Batavia Military Tribunal?
Answer: 35

Question: In 2001 which Japanese Prime <Minister apologized for the brothels.
Answer: Junichiro Koizumi

Question: In 2007 which Japenese Prime Minister said there was no proof of coercion of women to be sexual slaves?
Answer: Shinzō Abe

Question: Where were the sexual slave women mostly from?
Answer: Korea and China
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Australia had been shocked by the speedy collapse of British Malaya and Fall of Singapore in which around 15,000 Australian soldiers became prisoners of war. Curtin predicted that the "battle for Australia" would now follow. The Japanese established a major base in the Australian Territory of New Guinea in early 1942. On 19 February, Darwin suffered a devastating air raid, the first time the Australian mainland had been attacked. Over the following 19 months, Australia was attacked from the air almost 100 times.

Question: About how many Australians were taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore and British Malaya?
Answer: 15,000

Question: In what year did Japan establish a base in New Guinea?
Answer: 1942

Question: What date was the Australian mainland first attacked?
Answer: 19 February

Question: What mainland Australian city was attacked by the Japanese on February 19?
Answer: Darwin

Question: For how many months was Australia attacked from the air by Japan?
Answer: 19
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With an estimated population of 1,381,069 as of July 1, 2014, San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest in California. It is part of the San Diego–Tijuana conurbation, the second-largest transborder agglomeration between the US and a bordering country after Detroit–Windsor, with a population of 4,922,723 people. San Diego is the birthplace of California and is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches, long association with the United States Navy and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology development center.

Question: Which city in Mexico does San Diego border?
Answer: Tijuana

Question: Of all military branches, which one has the strongest presence in San Diego?
Answer: United States Navy

Question: Aside from healthcare, which employment sector has strongly emerged in San Diego?
Answer: biotechnology development

Question: Of the top 10 largest cities in the country, which place does San Diego rank?
Answer: eighth

Question: What is unique about San Diego's harbors?
Answer: deep-water

Question: Which city in Mexico doesn't San Diego border?

Question: Of all military branches, which one has the weakest presence in San Diego?

Question: Aside from healthcare, which employment sector has weakly emerged in San Diego?

Question: Of the top 5 largest cities in the country, which place does San Diego rank?

Question: What isn't unique about San Diego's harbors?
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Historically home to the Kumeyaay people, San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States. Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo claimed the entire area for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later. The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California. In 1821, San Diego became part of the newly-independent Mexico, which reformed as the First Mexican Republic two years later. In 1850, it became part of the United States following the Mexican–American War and the admission of California to the union.

Question: Who claimed the San Diego Bay area for Spain in 1542?
Answer: Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo

Question: In what year did San Diego become part of the United States?
Answer: 1850

Question: What native people lived in the San Diego area before the Europeans arrived?
Answer: Kumeyaay

Question: After the land was claimed for Spain, how many years passed before the settlement of Alta began?
Answer: 200

Question: Who claimed the San Diego Bay area for Spain in 1524?

Question: In what year didn't San Diego become part of the United States?

Question: What native people never lived in the San Diego area before the Europeans arrived?

Question: What native people lived in the San Diego area before the Mexicans arrived?

Question: After the land was claimed for Spain, how many years passed before the settlement of Atlanta began?
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The first European to visit the region was Portuguese-born explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sailing under the flag of Castile. Sailing his flagship San Salvador from Navidad, New Spain, Cabrillo claimed the bay for the Spanish Empire in 1542, and named the site 'San Miguel'. In November 1602, Sebastián Vizcaíno was sent to map the California coast. Arriving on his flagship San Diego, Vizcaíno surveyed the harbor and what are now Mission Bay and Point Loma and named the area for the Catholic Saint Didacus, a Spaniard more commonly known as San Diego de Alcalá. On November 12, 1602, the first Christian religious service of record in Alta California was conducted by Friar Antonio de la Ascensión, a member of Vizcaíno's expedition, to celebrate the feast day of San Diego.

Question: Who was sent to survey the California coast in 1602?
Answer: Sebastián Vizcaíno

Question: What was the name of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's ship?
Answer: San Salvador

Question: Who was the harbor named for?
Answer: Catholic Saint Didacus

Question: Who conducted the first Christian service to be recorded in Alta?
Answer: Friar Antonio de la Ascensión

Question: Where did Cabrillo leave from to embark on his journey to the West Coast?
Answer: Navidad, New Spain

Question: Who was sent to survey the California coast in 1620?

Question: What was the name of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo's car?

Question: Who wasn't the harbor named for?

Question: Who conducted the last Christian service to be recorded in Alta?

Question: Where did Cabrillo leave from to embark on his journey to the East Coast?
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In May 1769, Gaspar de Portolà established the Fort Presidio of San Diego on a hill near the San Diego River. It was the first settlement by Europeans in what is now the state of California. In July of the same year, Mission San Diego de Alcalá was founded by Franciscan friars under Junípero Serra. By 1797, the mission boasted the largest native population in Alta California, with over 1,400 neophytes living in and around the mission proper. Mission San Diego was the southern anchor in California of the historic mission trail El Camino Real. Both the Presidio and the Mission are National Historic Landmarks.

Question: Who did Junipero Serra commission to found the Mission San Diego de Alcala in 1769?
Answer: Franciscan friars

Question: What historic trail starting point developed at Mission San Diego?
Answer: El Camino Real

Question: What was developed on a hill by the San Diego River?
Answer: Fort Presidio of San Diego

Question: How many neophytes resided in the San Diego area in 1797?
Answer: 1,400

Question: What are the Presidio and Mission considered today?
Answer: National Historic Landmarks

Question: Who did Junipero Serra commission to found the Mission San Diego de Alcala in 1796?

Question: What historic trail ending point developed at Mission San Diego?

Question: What was developed on a hill by the San Francisco River?

Question: How many neophytes resided in the San Diego area in 1799?

Question: What are the Presidio and Mission considered in history?
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In 1821, Mexico won its independence from Spain, and San Diego became part of the Mexican territory of Alta California. In 1822, Mexico began attempting to extend its authority over the coastal territory of Alta California. The fort on Presidio Hill was gradually abandoned, while the town of San Diego grew up on the level land below Presidio Hill. The Mission was secularized by the Mexican government in 1833, and most of the Mission lands were sold to wealthy Californio settlers. The 432 residents of the town petitioned the governor to form a pueblo, and Juan María Osuna was elected the first alcalde ("municipal magistrate"), defeating Pío Pico in the vote. (See, List of pre-statehood mayors of San Diego.) However, San Diego had been losing population throughout the 1830s and in 1838 the town lost its pueblo status because its size dropped to an estimated 100 to 150 residents. Beyond town Mexican land grants expanded the number of California ranchos that modestly added to the local economy.

Question: Who was elected as the Mission's first municipal magistrate?
Answer: Juan María Osuna

Question: What was the name of the Mexican territory San Diego became part of in 1821?
Answer: Alta California

Question: Why did San Diego lose its pueblo status in 1838?
Answer: its size dropped to an estimated 100 to 150 residents

Question: What happened as the population shifted to more level ground below Presidio Hill?
Answer: The fort on Presidio Hill was gradually abandoned

Question: Who was in the running for the first alcalde position, but was defeated in the election?
Answer: Pío Pico

Question: Who was elected as the Mission's last municipal magistrate?

Question: What was the name of the Mexican territory San Diego became part of in 1812?

Question: Why did San Diego lose its pueblo status in 1883?

Question: What happened as the population shifted to more level ground above Presidio Hill?

Question: Who was in the running for the last alcalde position, but was defeated in the election?
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In 1846, the United States went to war against Mexico and sent a naval and land expedition to conquer Alta California. At first they had an easy time of it capturing the major ports including San Diego, but the Californios in southern Alta California struck back. Following the successful revolt in Los Angeles, the American garrison at San Diego was driven out without firing a shot in early October 1846. Mexican partisans held San Diego for three weeks until October 24, 1846, when the Americans recaptured it. For the next several months the Americans were blockaded inside the pueblo. Skirmishes occurred daily and snipers shot into the town every night. The Californios drove cattle away from the pueblo hoping to starve the Americans and their Californio supporters out. On December 1 the Americans garrison learned that the dragoons of General Stephen W. Kearney were at Warner's Ranch. Commodore Robert F. Stockton sent a mounted force of fifty under Captain Archibald Gillespie to march north to meet him. Their joint command of 150 men, returning to San Diego, encountered about 93 Californios under Andrés Pico. In the ensuing Battle of San Pasqual, fought in the San Pasqual Valley which is now part of the city of San Diego, the Americans suffered their worst losses in the campaign. Subsequently a column led by Lieutenant Gray arrived from San Diego, rescuing Kearny's battered and blockaded command.

Question: Who commissioned Captain Archibald Gillespie to lead 50 men on horseback to the north?
Answer: Commodore Robert F. Stockton

Question: What battle took place in the San Pasqual Valley?
Answer: Battle of San Pasqual

Question: Who led the group from San Diego that rescued Kearny's men?
Answer: Lieutenant Gray

Question: What extreme measure did the Californios take to try to draw the Americans out of the pueblo?
Answer: The Californios drove cattle away from the pueblo

Question: How many weeks did Mexican partisans hold San Diego before it was recaptured by Americans?
Answer: three weeks

Question: Who commissioned Captain Archibald Gillespie to lead 500 men on horseback to the north?

Question: What battle took place in the San Francisco Valley?

Question: Who led the group from San Francisco that rescued Kearny's men?

Question: What extreme measure did the Californios take to try to draw the Natives out of the pueblo?

Question: How many weeks did Mexican partisans hold San Francisco before it was recaptured by Americans?
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Stockton and Kearny went on to recover Los Angeles and force the capitulation of Alta California with the "Treaty of Cahuenga" on January 13, 1847. As a result of the Mexican–American War of 1846–48, the territory of Alta California, including San Diego, was ceded to the United States by Mexico, under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. The Mexican negotiators of that treaty tried to retain San Diego as part of Mexico, but the Americans insisted that San Diego was "for every commercial purpose of nearly equal importance to us with that of San Francisco," and the Mexican-American border was eventually established to be one league south of the southernmost point of San Diego Bay, so as to include the entire bay within the United States.

Question: What treaty was used by Stockton and Kearny on January 1, 1847?
Answer: Treaty of Cahuenga

Question: What was established after negotiations over San Diego between the Mexcians and Americans?
Answer: Mexican-American border

Question: Which war played a role in ceding San Diego to the United States?
Answer: Mexican–American War of 1846–48

Question: What was the name of the treaty developed between Mexico and the United States in 1848?
Answer: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Question: Why was the border between Mexico and the United States established one league south of San Diego Bay's most southern tip?
Answer: to include the entire bay within the United States

Question: What treaty was used by Stockton and Kearny on January 1, 1874?

Question: What was established after negotiations over San Francisco between the Mexcians and Americans?

Question: Which war played a role in ceding San Francisco to the United States?

Question: What was the name of the treaty developed between Mexico and the United States in 1884?

Question: Why was the border between Mexico and the United States established one league south of San Diego Bay's most northern tip?
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The state of California was admitted to the United States in 1850. That same year San Diego was designated the seat of the newly established San Diego County and was incorporated as a city. Joshua H. Bean, the last alcalde of San Diego, was elected the first mayor. Two years later the city was bankrupt; the California legislature revoked the city's charter and placed it under control of a board of trustees, where it remained until 1889. A city charter was re-established in 1889 and today's city charter was adopted in 1931.

Question: In what year did San Diego officially become a city?
Answer: 1850

Question: Who was San Diego's first mayor?
Answer: Joshua H. Bean

Question: What happened two years after San Diego elected it's first mayor?
Answer: the city was bankrupt

Question: Who controlled San Diego's charter for 2 years after it was revoked by California legislature?
Answer: a board of trustees

Question: When was San Diego's current charter adopted?
Answer: 1931

Question: In what year did San Francisco officially become a city?

Question: Who was San Diego's last mayor?

Question: What happened two years after San Diego elected it's last mayor?

Question: Who controlled San Diego's charter for 4 years after it was revoked by California legislature?

Question: When was San Francisco's current charter adopted?
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The original town of San Diego was located at the foot of Presidio Hill, in the area which is now Old Town San Diego State Historic Park. The location was not ideal, being several miles away from navigable water. In 1850, William Heath Davis promoted a new development by the Bay shore called "New San Diego", several miles south of the original settlement; however, for several decades the new development consisted only a few houses, a pier and an Army depot. In the late 1860s, Alonzo Horton promoted a move to the bayside area, which he called "New Town" and which became Downtown San Diego. Horton promoted the area heavily, and people and businesses began to relocate to New Town because of its location on San Diego Bay convenient to shipping. New Town soon eclipsed the original settlement, known to this day as Old Town, and became the economic and governmental heart of the city. Still, San Diego remained a relative backwater town until the arrival of a railroad connection in 1878.

Question: What was the main flaw of San Diego's original location?
Answer: several miles away from navigable water

Question: Who developed New San Diego that was south of the first location?
Answer: William Heath Davis

Question: Who was largely responsible for the population growth of Downtown San Diego?
Answer: Alonzo Horton

Question: What happened in 1878 that played a role in San Diego's economic growth?
Answer: the arrival of a railroad connection

Question: What was San Diego's downtown area originally called?
Answer: New Town

Question: What was the main flaw of San Francisco's original location?

Question: Who developed New San Diego that was north of the first location?

Question: Who was largely responsible for the population growth of Downtown San Francisco?

Question: What happened in 1887 that played a role in San Diego's economic growth?

Question: What was San Francisco's downtown area originally called?
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In the early part of the 20th century, San Diego hosted two World's Fairs: the Panama-California Exposition in 1915 and the California Pacific International Exposition in 1935. Both expositions were held in Balboa Park, and many of the Spanish/Baroque-style buildings that were built for those expositions remain to this day as central features of the park. The buildings were intended to be temporary structures, but most remained in continuous use until they progressively fell into disrepair. Most were eventually rebuilt, using castings of the original façades to retain the architectural style. The menagerie of exotic animals featured at the 1915 exposition provided the basis for the San Diego Zoo. During the 1950s there was a citywide festival called Fiesta del Pacifico highlighting the area's Spanish and Mexican past. In the 2010s there was a proposal for a large-scale celebration of the 100th anniversary of Balboa Park, but the plans were abandoned when the organization tasked with putting on the celebration went out of business.

Question: What park in San Diego hosted two World Fairs near the beginning of the 20th century?
Answer: Balboa Park

Question: Where did many of the San Diego Zoo's exotic animals come from?
Answer: Panama-California Exposition in 1915

Question: What festival was celebrated in the 1950s in recognition of the city's Mexican and Spanish past?
Answer: Fiesta del Pacifico

Question: What happened to many of the structures developed for the World Fairs?
Answer: Most were eventually rebuilt, using castings of the original façades to retain the architectural style.

Question: Which World Fair was hosted in San Diego in 1935?
Answer: California Pacific International Exposition

Question: What park in San Diego hosted two World Fairs near the beginning of the 19th century?

Question: Where did many of the San Francisco Zoo's exotic animals come from?

Question: What festival was celebrated in the 1960s in recognition of the city's Mexican and Spanish past?

Question: What happened to many of the structures developed for the State Fairs?

Question: Which World Fair was hosted in San Diego in 1953?
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The southern portion of the Point Loma peninsula was set aside for military purposes as early as 1852. Over the next several decades the Army set up a series of coastal artillery batteries and named the area Fort Rosecrans. Significant U.S. Navy presence began in 1901 with the establishment of the Navy Coaling Station in Point Loma, and expanded greatly during the 1920s. By 1930, the city was host to Naval Base San Diego, Naval Training Center San Diego, San Diego Naval Hospital, Camp Matthews, and Camp Kearny (now Marine Corps Air Station Miramar). The city was also an early center for aviation: as early as World War I, San Diego was proclaiming itself "The Air Capital of the West". The city was home to important airplane developers and manufacturers like Ryan Airlines (later Ryan Aeronautical), founded in 1925, and Consolidated Aircraft (later Convair), founded in 1923. Charles A. Lindbergh's plane The Spirit of St. Louis was built in San Diego in 1927 by Ryan Airlines.

Question: What names was given to coastal artillery batteries erected shortly after 1852?
Answer: Fort Rosecrans

Question: What was the name of Charles A. Lindbergh's plane that was built in San Diego by Ryan Airlines?
Answer: Spirit of St. Louis

Question: What was the original name of today's Marine Corps Air Station Miramar?
Answer: Camp Kearny

Question: What branch of the military began to have a strong presence in San Diego in 1901?
Answer: U.S. Navy

Question: What airplane developer was founded in San Diego in 1923?
Answer: Consolidated Aircraft

Question: What names was given to coastal artillery batteries erected shortly after 1825?

Question: What was the name of Charles A. Lindbergh's plane that was built in San Francisco by Ryan Airlines?

Question: What was the final name of today's Marine Corps Air Station Miramar?

Question: What branch of the military began to have a strong presence in San Diego in 1910?

Question: What airplane developer was founded in San Diego in 1932?
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During World War II, San Diego became a major hub of military and defense activity, due to the presence of so many military installations and defense manufacturers. The city's population grew rapidly during and after World War II, more than doubling between 1930 (147,995) and 1950 (333,865). During the final months of the war, the Japanese had a plan to target multiple U.S. cities for biological attack, starting with San Diego. The plan was called "Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night" and called for kamikaze planes filled with fleas infected with plague (Yersinia pestis) to crash into civilian population centers in the city, hoping to spread plague in the city and effectively kill tens of thousands of civilians. The plan was scheduled to launch on September 22, 1945, but was not carried out because Japan surrendered five weeks earlier.

Question: When did San Diego's population grow so rapidly that it nearly doubled?
Answer: during and after World War II

Question: What was the name of the attack the Japanese had planned against San Diego?
Answer: Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night

Question: What were the Japanese originally going to drop on San Diego from their kamikaze planes?
Answer: fleas infected with plague (Yersinia pestis)

Question: Why didn't the Japanese launch their planned attack on September 22, 1945?
Answer: Japan surrendered five weeks earlier

Question: How many civilians were the Japanese hoping to kill during their planned attack on San Diego?
Answer: tens of thousands of civilians

Question: When did San Diego's population grow so rapidly that it nearly tripled?

Question: What was the name of the attack the Japanese had planned against San Francisco?

Question: What were the Japanese originally going to drop on San Francisco from their kamikaze planes?

Question: Why didn't the Japanese launch their planned attack on September 20, 1945?

Question: How many civilians were the Japanese hoping to kill during their planned attack on San Francisco?
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From the start of the 20th century through the 1970s, the American tuna fishing fleet and tuna canning industry were based in San Diego, "the tuna capital of the world". San Diego's first tuna cannery was founded in 1911, and by the mid-1930s the canneries employed more than 1,000 people. A large fishing fleet supported the canneries, mostly staffed by immigrant fishermen from Japan, and later from the Portuguese Azores and Italy whose influence is still felt in neighborhoods like Little Italy and Point Loma. Due to rising costs and foreign competition, the last of the canneries closed in the early 1980s.

Question: What nickname was San Diego given by the tuna canning industry in the 1970s?
Answer: the tuna capital of the world

Question: How many jobs were created by the mid-1930s thanks to San Diego's tuna cannery that was developed in 1911?
Answer: more than 1,000

Question: Why were the canneries ultimately closed by the early 1980s?
Answer: rising costs and foreign competition

Question: Immigrants from what country were primarily hired by the fishing fleets that supported the canneries??
Answer: Japan

Question: From what region in Portugal did immigrants come from to work in San Diego's fishing industry?
Answer: Portuguese Azores

Question: What nickname was San Diego given by the tuna canning industry in the 1960s?

Question: How many jobs were created by the mid-1930s thanks to San Diego's tuna cannery that was developed in 1921?

Question: Why were the canneries ultimately closed by the early 1970s?

Question: Immigrants from what country were primarily fired by the fishing fleets that supported the canneries??

Question: From what region in Portugal did immigrants come from to work in San Francisco's fishing industry?
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The city lies on approximately 200 deep canyons and hills separating its mesas, creating small pockets of natural open space scattered throughout the city and giving it a hilly geography. Traditionally, San Diegans have built their homes and businesses on the mesas, while leaving the urban canyons relatively wild. Thus, the canyons give parts of the city a segmented feel, creating gaps between otherwise proximate neighborhoods and contributing to a low-density, car-centered environment. The San Diego River runs through the middle of San Diego from east to west, creating a river valley which serves to divide the city into northern and southern segments. The river used to flow into San Diego Bay and its fresh water was the focus of the earliest Spanish explorers.[citation needed] Several reservoirs and Mission Trails Regional Park also lie between and separate developed areas of the city.

Question: In what direction does the San Diego River run through the city?
Answer: east to west

Question: What bodies of water can be found separating different developed areas of the city?
Answer: reservoirs

Question: What is created by the many canyons and hills throughout San Diego?
Answer: small pockets of natural open space

Question: What divides the city's northern and southern segments?
Answer: San Diego River

Question: Where did the San Diego River once flow to?
Answer: San Diego Bay

Question: In what direction does the San Francisco River run through the city?

Question: What bodies of water can't be found separating different developed areas of the city?

Question: What is created by the many canyons and hills throughout San Francisco?

Question: What divides the city's eastern and western segments?

Question: Where did the San Francisco River once flow to?
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Downtown San Diego is located on San Diego Bay. Balboa Park encompasses several mesas and canyons to the northeast, surrounded by older, dense urban communities including Hillcrest and North Park. To the east and southeast lie City Heights, the College Area, and Southeast San Diego. To the north lies Mission Valley and Interstate 8. The communities north of the valley and freeway, and south of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, include Clairemont, Kearny Mesa, Tierrasanta, and Navajo. Stretching north from Miramar are the northern suburbs of Mira Mesa, Scripps Ranch, Rancho Peñasquitos, and Rancho Bernardo. The far northeast portion of the city encompasses Lake Hodges and the San Pasqual Valley, which holds an agricultural preserve. Carmel Valley and Del Mar Heights occupy the northwest corner of the city. To their south are Torrey Pines State Reserve and the business center of the Golden Triangle. Further south are the beach and coastal communities of La Jolla, Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, and Ocean Beach. Point Loma occupies the peninsula across San Diego Bay from downtown. The communities of South San Diego, such as San Ysidro and Otay Mesa, are located next to the Mexico–United States border, and are physically separated from the rest of the city by the cities of National City and Chula Vista. A narrow strip of land at the bottom of San Diego Bay connects these southern neighborhoods with the rest of the city.

Question: What community covers the area from Downtown San Diego to the peninsula?
Answer: Point Loma

Question: Where is Otay Mesa found within the city?
Answer: next to the Mexico–United States border

Question: What is the only coastal community in San Diego without the word "beach" in its name?
Answer: La Jolla

Question: Which valley is encompassed by the most northeast portion of San Diego?
Answer: San Pasqual Valley

Question: What community covers the area from Downtown San Francisco to the peninsula?

Question: Where is Otay Mesa found outside the city?

Question: What is the only coastal community in San Francisco without the word "beach" in its name?

Question: What is the only coastal community in San Diego with the word "beach" in its name?

Question: Which valley is encompassed by the most southeast portion of San Diego?
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The development of skyscrapers over 300 feet (91 m) in San Diego is attributed to the construction of the El Cortez Hotel in 1927, the tallest building in the city from 1927 to 1963. As time went on multiple buildings claimed the title of San Diego's tallest skyscraper, including the Union Bank of California Building and Symphony Towers. Currently the tallest building in San Diego is One America Plaza, standing 500 feet (150 m) tall, which was completed in 1991. The downtown skyline contains no super-talls, as a regulation put in place by the Federal Aviation Administration in the 1970s set a 500 feet (152 m) limit on the height of buildings due to the proximity of San Diego International Airport. An iconic description of the skyline includes its skyscrapers being compared to the tools of a toolbox.

Question: What was the first skyscraper built in San Diego that was over 300-feet tall?
Answer: El Cortez Hotel

Question: How tall is One America Plaza?
Answer: 500 feet

Question: What played a role in determining the maximum height skyscrapers can be in San Diego?
Answer: San Diego International Airport

Question: What organization regulates building heights in San Diego?
Answer: Federal Aviation Administration

Question: What bank spent time as being the tallest building in San Diego?
Answer: Union Bank of California Building

Question: What was the first skyscraper built in San Diego that was over 200-feet tall?

Question: How tall is Two America Plaza?

Question: What played a role in determining the maximum height skyscrapers can be in San Francisco?

Question: What organization regulates building heights in San Francisco?

Question: What bank spent time as being the shortest building in San Diego?
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San Diego is one of the top-ten best climates in the Farmers' Almanac and is one of the two best summer climates in America as scored by The Weather Channel. Under the Köppen–Geiger climate classification system, the San Diego area has been variously categorized as having either a semi-arid climate (BSh in the original classification and BSkn in modified Köppen classification) or a Mediterranean climate (Csa and Csb). San Diego's climate is characterized by warm, dry summers and mild winters with most of the annual precipitation falling between December and March. The city has a mild climate year-round, with an average of 201 days above 70 °F (21 °C) and low rainfall (9–13 inches [230–330 mm] annually). Dewpoints in the summer months range from 57.0 °F (13.9 °C) to 62.4 °F (16.9 °C).

Question: When does San Diego receive most of its precipitation?
Answer: between December and March

Question: How many days of the year does San Diego typically experience temperatures above 70 degrees Fahrenheit ?
Answer: 201 days

Question: What ranked San Diego as having the country's best summer climate?
Answer: Weather Channel

Question: What type of climate is San Diego classified as having?
Answer: semi-arid climate

Question: What type of weather can one expect to experience in San Diego in the winter?
Answer: mild

Question: When does San Francisco receive most of its precipitation?

Question: How many days of the year does San Diego typically experience temperatures above 60 degrees Fahrenheit ?

Question: What ranked San Diego as having the country's worst summer climate?

Question: What type of climate is San Francisco classified as having?

Question: What type of weather can one expect to experience in San Francisco in the winter?