Today we watched The Enola Gay.
1. What was the Manhattan Project?
Working on the Atomic bomb secretly to use against Japan.
2. Who was Charles Groves?
The general officer who headed the program.
3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer?
The head physicists who mainly worked on the atomic bomb. The scientist in charge of it.
4. What is the significance of Los Alomos?
It's the isolated area they chose to work on the first atomic bomb.
5. What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful?
Uranium 235 or platonium. The is the most lethal.
6. Who was Klaus Fuchs?
The spy from the Soviets who worked in Los Alomos.
7. What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?
The B29.
8. What was Trinity?
Trinity was the code name for the area that we set up to test our first atomic bomb.
9. What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?
10. What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?
11. What was the name of the airplane that dropped the second atomic bomb? Who was the pilot?
12. What were the two cities that we dropped atomic bombs on?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
13. What were the nicknames given to each bomb?
'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man'
14. How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?
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