general leslie groves:
general in charge
oversaw everything
j rober oppenheimer:
scientist in charge of atomic bombs
alamorgordo is where they dropped the first atomic bomb
trinity was the name of the first dropping of the atomic bomb
enola gay:
plane that was made to drop atomic bombs
paul tibbits:
pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima
the atomic shadow
nagasaki bombing:
the secon bombing with an atomic bomb
VJ day:
victory in japan day
august 14, 1945
ending ww2
yalta conference:
set the stage for what was going to happen to germany after the war
germany wass to be broken into 4 zones
stalin promised free elections in eastern europe
stalin promised to join the war against japan after war with germany was over
have a conference at san francisco to set up the united nations
nuremberg trials:
trials for the germans for the holocaust
GI bill of rights:
helped troops get back on their feet
gave them something to do when they get back
japanese internment camps:
ppl were forced to sell all of their belongings
we didn't trust them so we forced them to these camps
bill clinton later wrote a letter to the japanese americans apologizing to them for the stuff they went through
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