1. What was the Manhattan Project?
Making the atomic bomb
2. Who was Charles Groves?
Groves is made general in charge of it.
3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer?
Robert is the scientist of it.
4. What is the significance of Los Alomos?
They used the school for their top secret lab
5. What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful?
Urainium 235, Pletonium Urainium 235 is more powerful.
6. Who was Klaus Fuchs?
He was a spy at LosAlomos.
7. What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?
Enola Gay, the super fortress.
8. What was Trinity?
The code for test dropping atomic bombs.
9. What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?
Where they test dropped the atomic bomb,
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?
Heroshima, Nagasaki.
13. What were the nicknames given to each bomb?
Little boy uranium, fat man plutonium
14. How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?
20,000 Japanese died, or 90% of their people died.
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