Today we continued with WWII info for the second test.
Manhattan Project
- Alamogordo, New Mexicio is where they tested the first Atomic Bomb
- Trinity was the code name for the first atomic bomb dropped in US.
VJ Day
- August 14, 1945
- Japan surrendered
- The entire war was over
- There were many ticker tape parades as long as others celebrating
Yalta Conference Compromise
- Germany would be broken into four ocupation zones- US, GB, France, USSR
- Stalin promised that there would be free elections in Germany but that didn't happen
- Stalin also promised to join war against Japan after war with Germany was over (cold war was starting)
- Have conference at San Fran to set up the United Nations
Nurmberg Trials
- After the war, delt with things that went on during Holocaust
- Needed to settle what would happen
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