we talked about what the test was over.
Manhattan Project: code name for the creation of the Atomic bomb in the US.
Groves was put in-charge and he picked Oppenheimer as head scientist who was a communist.
Los Alamos
Alamogordo was where it was tested. they said it was a accidental explosion of ammunition.
Operation Trinity was the code name.
This test bomb was dropped from a tower.
Enola Gay- Paul Tibbits was the pilot of this b-29 super fortress.
Little boy- made from Uranium.
Bockscar- the B-29 that dropped Fat man
Fat Man was a implosion type bomb made from plutonium.
VJ day- August 14 and 15 1945
Compromises that Ended the war- Democracy vs. Communism/ start of Cold War.
Yalta Conference- February 1945 Germany broke into 4 zones (US, GB, France, USSR) Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe. East Germany became Communist. Set up the San Francisco Conference to set up the United Nations.
Potsdam Conference- July 1945, Trueman, Stalin, Vietnam was split in two. Goals of occupation of Germany- demilitarization, denazification, democratization (get rid of the military/military factories, get rid of the Nazi crap, and make it a democracy.
The Potsdam Declaration- Ultimatum that basically said if Japan didn't surrender they would be destroyed. (before the atomic bombs) and Japan ignored it.
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