Test tomorrow.
May 8 1945- VE Day.
June 6 1944- D Day
No assigned blog this week!
Manhattan Project: Code name given to development of atomic bomb in the US. General Groves was in charge. Communist scientist was in charge. Los Alamos is where the bomb was developed. Soviet union had a spy there. Trinity: code name for bomb. Most people didn't know what they were doing. VERY top secret. Dropped from a tower. For a few moments, hotter than the sun. After the test, attention shifted to Japan.
Hiroshima bomb- little boy. killed 90- 100,000 people. %90 doctors and nurses killed in the first few days. Radiation and fires killed people. Missed their target by 800 ft. Massive damage. fires were a huge issue. Nagasaki bomb- had to take a lot of thought into where to bomb. Fat man. Didn't do as much damage as Hiroshima. Only drop the bomb if you can see the target. they couldn't see it but dropped anyway because they would not have made it home with the bomb. Japan surrendered within a few days.
VJ Day: Victory in Japan day. Japan surrendered. Surrender because of the atomic bomb. Some people in Japan committed suicide.
Yalta Conference: After the war ended, Germany was going to be split into 4 zones for a period of time for 4 other countries to control.
Potsdam Conference: make democracy
de-nazi-fy
destroy industries that make war material.
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