April 12th

1.     What was the Manhattan Project? THe creating of the atomic bombs

 

  2.     Who was Charles Groves? Head of the Manhattan Project

 

3.     Who was Robert Oppenheimer? Selected to be the lead scientist of the Manhattan project.

 

  4.     What is the significance of Los Alomos?

 

5.     What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful? Petolium and

 

 6.     Who was Klaus Fuchs? The spy for the soviet union

 

7.     What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb? B-22

 

 8.     What was Trinity? Code name for the test of the little boy bomb.

 

  9.     What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?  This is were they tested the bomb. To see if it will work.

 

 10.   What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?  It was carrying little boy , Tibbes.

 

 11.   What was the name of the airplane that dropped the second atomic bomb? Who was the pilot? Bockscar and Swinen.  

 

 

12.   What were the two cities that we dropped atomic bombs on? Hiroshimi and Nagaski

 

13.   What were the nicknames given to each bomb?  Fat man and Little man

 

  14.   How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?

 

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