Enola Gay Video Questions
1. What was the Manhattan Project?
-The development of the atomic bomb. In New York.
2. Who was Charles Groves?
-Head of the Manhattan Project. Overweight and stashed chocolate at all times.
3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer?
-Groves selected him to be the scientist of the Manhattan Project. He was underweight, communist, and hated fat people.
4. What is the significance of Los Alomos?
-Where the scientists live. They couldn't have any outside contact because they were afraid of spies.
5. What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful?
-Uranium 235 and plutonium. They weren't sure.
6. Who was Klaus Fuchs?
-He was a spy at the Los Alomos lab.
7. What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?
-Boeing B29.
8. What was Trinity?
-Code name of the test at Alamagordo.
9. What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?
-The test area of the bomb. No one knew how it would go off, if at all.
10. What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?
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11. What was the name of the airplane that dropped the second atomic bomb? Who was the pilot?
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12. What were the two cities that we dropped atomic bombs on?
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13. What were the nicknames given to each bomb?
-Little Boy and Fat Man.
14. How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?
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