General Leslie Groves
the general in charge of the manhattan project
Manhattan Project was the code name for the atomic bomb
very few people knew about it
J Robert Oppenheimer
the scientist in charge of developing the atomic bombs
he was a communist
they were worried about this so they kept an eye on him
they couldnt be more different- oppenheimer and groves.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
where they tested the first atomic bomb
Trinity
code name for the first dropping of the atomic bomb in history
Enola Gay- title of the movie were watching
the plane specifically made to drop the bombs
had to make it powerful enough to take off with this huge load
named after his mother
Paul Tibbits
dropped the infamous bomb
piolet who dropped the atomic bomb at hiroshima
the atomic shadow
because of the extreme heat it burnt shadows into the cement
radiation sickness
japan suffered from this
nagasaki bombing
the second bombing
"fat man"
bockscar
they almost crashed on the way back because they almost ran out of fuel
didnt get as much credit as the first one
better pictures came out of this bombing
VJ Day
August 14 1945
victory in japan day
japan surrendered thus ending WWII
Yalta Conference
february 1945
set teh stage for what was going to happen in germany after the war
germany would be broken down into four occupation zones (US, GB, France, USSR)
stalin promised free election in eastern europe
stalin promisted to join the war against japan after war with germany was over
have a conference at san fransisco to set up the united nations
Nuremberg Trials
war crimes trials for germany
nuremberg is a city in germany
nazi war crime trials took palce
herman goering took over after hitler killed himself and he later also killed himself
after WII the troops were coming back and the GI bill of rights was passed to get troops back on their feet
helps them get job training skills or go to college
gave troops a head start
gave them something to do when they get back
definately helped the veterans
helped get houseing
Japanese Internment Camps
we interned japenese americans in these camps
they were forced to sell all their belongings and then forced to move to these camps
we said it was for their protection
no doubt it was the fact that we didnt trust these people
they werent like the concentration camps
they were in areas that were like deserts
like an army beric
it wasnt all bad though, they went to school , had football and baseball teams
everyone was given a job
navejo code talkers try to undo all the wrong things we have done
we apologized to the japanese americans
it was the right thing to do
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