1. What was the Manhattan Project?
-the code name for the project of making the atomic bomb.
2. Who was Charles Groves?
-put in charge of finding someone to help build the atomic bomb.
3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer?
-has been a part of many communist areas. Helped build the atomic bomb.
4. What is the significance of Los Alomos?
-Where they built the atomic bomb.
5. What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful?
-1 was uranium 235. the other was platonium.
6. Who was Klaus Fuchs?
-A Russian spy at Los Alamos.
7. What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?
-B29. Officially named the Super Fortris. 25% faster than the B17.
8. What was Trinity?
-The code name for the test of the platonium bomb.
9. What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?
-It was the airforce base where they practiced the first dropping of an atomic bomb.
10. What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?
-It was the plane that dropped the first bomb on hiroshima. Tibbits was the pilot. He named it after his mother.
11. What was the name of the airplane that dropped the second atomic bomb? Who was the pilot?
-Bockscar. Was flown by Major Sweeny.
12. What were the two cities that we dropped atomic bombs on?
-hiroshima and nagasaki
13. What were the nicknames given to each bomb?
-the first one was "little boy" , and the second "fat man"
14. How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?
-at least 100,000 from hiroshima. And around 60,000 from Nagasaki.
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