Watched a movie.
1. What was the Manhattan Project?
-code name for the development of the atomic bomb
2. Who was Charles Groves?
-mastermind behind atomic bomb, graduated from westpoint, headstrong, overweight
3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer?
-communist, dislikes overweight people, physicist that aided in the making of the atomic bomb
4. What is the significance of Los Alomos?
-top secret laboratory where atomic was built
5. What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful?
-uranium and platonium, platonium was more powerful
6. Who was Klaus Fuchs?
-a spy at Los Alamos
7. What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?
-B-29 (superfortress)
8. What was Trinity?
-codename for the testing of the platonium bomb
9. What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?
-atomic bomb tested here
10. What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?
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11. What was the name of the airplane that dropped the second atomic bomb? Who was the pilot?
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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 (uranium) and fat boy (platonium)
14. How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?
-16,000-20,000
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