Enola Gay Video Questions
1. What was the Manhattan Project?- the project to develop the atomic bomb
2. Who was Charles Groves?- general in charge of project
3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer?- scientist in charge of project.
4. What is the significance of Los Alomos?- it is the place (school) that they do the project.
5. What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful? - uranium 235 and Pletonium. Uranium was to make a better bomb.
6. Who was Klaus Fuchs?- a Russian spy at the lab.
7. What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?- B-29
8. What was Trinity?- the secret name for the dropping of the atomic bomb.
9. What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?- the place where they dropped the first atomic bomb in the United States to test it.
10. What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?- Enola Gay was the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb in Japan. 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?
13. What were the nicknames given to each bomb?-Little Boy-Uranium, Fat Man-Pletonium
14. How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?
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