continued blogs-
doolittle's raid was what the second half of pearl harbor was about. he was determined to fight back and bomb tokyo in revenge to their bombing on pearl harbor. the point was to boost our motivation and say that we can do this.
manhattan project- it was to build an atomic bomb, hitlers scientists were jewish and hitler killed them. it needed about 40 labs to create this bomb. the people that went to work on this project didnt know what they were making, it was a complete secret. the one in charge was J Robert Oppenheimer.
the trinity site is the testing site for the bombing practice.
heroshema- was dropped by pual tibbits, it killed 245,000 total. about 100,000 japs. doctors only helped the people that could have been saved and not the ones that were goners. the united states tried to force japan to surrender. uranium 235 was what the bomb was made of.
nagasaki- august 9 1945, we attacked it because the city was a military based city. we thought that if we bombed one of the main big cities with a lot of culture in them, that they would dispise us and become allies with other countries to go against us. didnt do as much damage as the little boy, this bomb was called the fat man. the good part of this was that the war ended a couple days later. with the bomb hitting off target.
VJ day- victory over japan day, it ended ww2. it was august 15 for japan and for us it was august 14.
yalta conference- held in a palace in 1945, it set up the united nations. they decided to have another conference in san fransisco, and it decided what was gonna happen with germany.
Comments