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• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp and changed its name from Facebook in 2021?

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Meta Platforms

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• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company is the parent corporation of Google and became one of the world’s trillion-dollar companies?

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Alphabet

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• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company was valued at about $1.7 trillion after its December 2019 initial public offering?

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Saudi Aramco

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• World's Richest Companies By Market Cap

Which company became the world's most valuable listed company after its December 2019 initial public offering?

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Saudi Aramco

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• V-J Day And Japan's Surrender In World War Ii (1945–2026)

What was the name of the attempted Japanese military coup that sought to stop the 1945 surrender broadcast?

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Kyūjō Incident

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What abbreviation identified General Douglas MacArthur’s occupation command in Japan after the 1945 surrender?

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SCAP

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Which Soviet foreign minister informed Japan’s ambassador of the Soviet declaration of war in August 1945?

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Vyacheslav Molotov

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Which historic American flag did USS Missouri display during Japan’s 1945 surrender ceremony?

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Matthew Perry’s 1853 flag

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What was the codename of the Soviet offensive against Japanese forces in Manchuria in August 1945?

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Operation August Storm

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What was the Japanese government’s official radio announcement called in the original Japanese?

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Gyokuon-hoso

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How many Allied nations signed Japan’s surrender instrument after Douglas MacArthur in 1945?

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Nine

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Which Japanese army general signed the surrender instrument after Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu?

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Yoshijiro Umezu

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