1. What was the Manhattan Project?
-project of making the Atomic Bomb
2. Who was Charles Groves?
- man in charge of the Manhattan Project
3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer?
-physicist that helped with the research of the A bomb
4. What is the significance of Los Alomos?
-They put up barracks around the Los Alomos school to set up a research lab
5. What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful?
- Uranium
- Plutonium- more powerful
6. Who was Klaus Fuchs?
-soviet spy who worked in the Manhattan Project
7. What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?
-B-29 Superfortress
8. What was Trinity?
-codename for the testing of the plutonium bomb
9. What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?
-where the atomic bomb was tested
10. What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?
-it was the plane that dropped the first bomb on Hiroshima
-Paul Tibbits 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
-Nagasaki
13. What were the nicknames given to each bomb?
-Little Boy
-Fat Man
14. How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?
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