Today we continued the movie..
Enola Gay Video Questions
1. What was the Manhattan Project?
-Making the atomic bomb
2. Who was Charles Groves?
-Groves was in command of making the atomic bomb oversaw everything
3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer?
-was the scientist in charge of making the atomic bomb
4. What is the significance of Los Alomos?
-they placed barracks around it
5. What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful?
-Uranium 235 and the Platonium, the Platonium was more powerful
6. Who was Klaus Fuchs?
-He was our spy..he'd spy on the soviets for us to see what they were up to.
7. What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?
-B-29's. they could carry more than 20,000 pounds and travel for 4,000 miles
8. What was Trinity?
-this is the code name where they dropped the 1st A bomb
9. What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?
-This is where they dropped the first atomic bomb as a test run..before they dropped it in Japan, its an aiforce base.
10. What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?
-The pilots name was tibbits. Its the plane that dropped the A bomb on Japan
11. What was the name of the airplane that dropped the second atomic bomb? Who was the pilot?
-Box car was the name of the plane. Sweeny and Ashworth were the pilots name.
12. What were the two cities that we dropped atomic bombs on?
-Hiroshima and Nagasaki
13. What were the nicknames given to each bomb?
-The Uranium was called "little boy". The Plationium was nicknamed "fat man".
14. How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?
-60,000 men and women/children.
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