April 2,2013

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Today we reviewed other blog topics.
VE-day-- may 18.1945 is when germany surrendered.
battle of the phillpines. we were ordered to leave.. but the generak at this time vowed that he would be back. he returned and we eventually took back the phillipines.
Oppenheimer and Groves
was told he was gonna watch out for scientists. he was not excited to be the leading scientist. because he wanted his 5 stars like any other general.
the first atomic device every made was the trinity test.
The trinity bomb was dropped from a tower, not a plane and all the sand was turned into glass becasue of the extreme heat of the bomb hitting the sand at extreme heat
The enola gay was a plane of Paul Tibbits. it was named after his mother.
Hiroshima Bomb was nicknamed the "little boy" not as near as big as other bombs.
This was one of the biggest bombing. August 1945
the bombs did some much damage it was horrible. fires is what many people would die from. bad burns.
tons and tons and tons of dead bodies
the atomic shadows were shadows burned into the ground of people or other different things
200,000 lives were saved from US
by doing the bomb we saved tons of lives
but many civilains were killed
They would die from badly burns
radiation sickness was later to come. but a very bad sickness
never been used since.
nuclear weapons are defensive weapons.
 Nagasaki bombing- 13 bombs were dropped within a couple days of each other
One bomb was called the "fat man" it was larger and very round
this bombing made japan  surrender
before and after pictures were jus awful!
VJ-day it was when japan surrendered which ended World War 2. it was a pic of a sailor and a woman kissing. August 15,14, 1945.
september 2, 1945 is when japan offically surrendered.
 Yalta Conference
feb 1945.
it was a conference on how to get hotler to surrender
last time these people would all be together
they created zones.
they were discussing future stuff
They were gonna take austria and germany out.
1991, germany finally came together.
 stalin promised elections.  but no did not happen
 stalin joined war after we dropped the first atomic bomb because he knew that it wouldnt last long after that.
US,GB, FRance, USSR
Potsdamm Conference
THe leader of the party becomes prime minister
conference focused on punishing germany and making sure that they couldnt do this again. germany would have to be more democratic and reduce military things
germany exports were to beer, toys, textiles but no war goods or anything like that.
 get rid of their military and all nazi stuff. and prosecute all nazi german generals.