Tomorrow we have a test...over many topics..didnt have time to type them all while he was talking.
Manhattan Project:
Code name given to the development of Atomic bomb in US. Jay Robert Oppenheimer was a communist and chief scientist behind it. this took place in Los Alomos, New Mexico. Al magordo was the first place where a atomic bomb went off. Code name was Trinity. It was dropped from a tower not a airplane. After the test the tension went eastward.
Hiroshima:
- Hiroshima Bombs nickname was: "Little Boy"
- 90%of doctors died
- most people died from radiation and buildings falling
- The b29 bomber
- missed target by 800 somethin feet
- Paul Tibits
- U235 bomb
- water mains were destroyed
- target was T shaped bridge
- Atomic Shadow:
- the extreme heat caused shadows to be burned into the ground
- second guessed doing it at first
- with both bomb over 200 thousand people
- by using this bomb twice lives were saved
Nagasaki Bombing:
- "Fat Man"
- bombed 5 times in the past year
- dropped by b29 "bockscar"
- 40% was destroyed
- 87 thousand people died all together
- weighed 10 thousand pounds
- on the plane one of the fuel pumps was working
- everything went wrong from this mission
- way off target
- dropped surrounded by hills reason why it did less damage
- they were saved because the surrendered
VJ Day:
- "Victory over Japan Day"
- August 14th, 1945
- cause of Atomic Bomb
- people in Japan were upset and some committed suicide
Yalta Conference:
- February, 1945
- Germany would be broken into 4 zones(US, GB, France, USSR)
- Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe
- Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over(declared war the day after Hiroshima)
have a conference at San Francisco to set up the United States
Potsdam Conference:
- July 1945
- set up to the Vietnam war at 17th parallel
- Japan would surrender to GB in the south and China in the north
- If we would have just given independence Vietnam wouldn't have happened
- Goals of Germany: demilitarization, denazifiction, democratization.( make more good, Nazi crap gone,take over the factory that makes war material)
- Division of Germany(and Berlin) and Austria into 4 occupation zones
- Reduce Germany 25% compared to 1937 boarders
- if Germans lived beyond eastern boarders they were removed
- Agreed on was reparations to the Soviet Union
- take over the factories
- Poland became communist controlled gov
- if Japan didn't surrender it would face "prompt and utter destruction"
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