Tuesday, May 4

Finishing Mr. Bruns' power point.

Battle of Leyte Gulf--back towards Phillipines, destroyed Japanese navy, kamikaze: suicide bombing, used when they were starting to lose

Okinawa--very close to Japan

Gen. Leslie Groves--in charge of Manhatten Project

Oppenheimer--scientist in change of MP

New Mexico--building and test sites

Trinity was first to exploded, explained as amunition dump exploding, sand turned to glass, hotter than sun

Enola Gay: specificly built to drop atomic bombs

LIttle Boy dropped on Hiroshima, Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki--dropped by Bockscar

GI Bill of Rights--given money to help readjust

Japanese Inernment Camps--Japanese forced to sell everything, only to Japanese b/c didnt trust them, not like consentration camps but still not good

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