Today, we finished up the Lenola Gay video...
Enola Gay Video Questions
1. What was the Manhattan Project?--the development of the atomic bomb
2. Who was Charles Groves?--west point graduate, overweight, headstrong--oversaw the making of the atomic bomb
3. Who was Robert Oppenheimer?--dislikes fat people, reads sandscrid for fun, communist...a physicist who aided in the building of the atomic bomb...
4. What is the significance of Los Alomos?--the top secret laboratory where the bomb had been built
5. What were the two types of atomic bombs being built made from? Which was more powerful?--urainium and platonium (urainum ore, and steel): platonium
6. Who was Klaus Fuchs?--spy at Los Alomos (worked for the Manhattan Project)
7. What airplane was specifically built for the atomic bomb?--B-29: "super fortress"
8. What was Trinity?--codename for the testing of the platonium bomb
9. What was the significance of Alamagordo, New Mexico?--it was where the atomic bomb was tested...
10. What was the significance of the Enola Gay? Who was the pilot?--it was the plane that dropped the "little boy" bomb on Hiroshima and Tibbits was the pilot of the plane...
11. What was the name of the airplane that dropped the second atomic bomb? Who was the pilot?--Bockscar and Sweeny and Ashworth were the pilots
12. What were the two cities that we dropped atomic bombs on?--Nagasaki and Hiroshima
13. What were the nicknames given to each bomb?-- "little boy" (urainium bomb) and "fat boy" (platonium)
14. How many Japanese people died as a result of the atomic bombs?--atleast 70,000 died right away with another 30,000 dying of radiation sickness later...
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