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Hello!
• 1. Please pick up a handout on your way in, and have your Need to Know List on your desk.
• “Boom! Shake the Room”– DJ Jazzy Jeff & The French Prince
Learning Goal 11• I will be able to:
-Define Manhattan Project-Identify J. Robert Oppenheimer-Explain what the atom bomb was-Summarize why Truman was hesitant to use the bomb-Explain why Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen as targets-Summarize the effects of the bomb-Explain how the atomic bomb led to Japan’s surrender and end of WWII
Building Blocks of Life…
• Which element is considered the “building block of life?”
5.11Manhattan Project
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Atom Bomb
Why Truman was hesitant to use it
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Effects
How it led to Japanese surrender
• Code name for secret mission to build atomic bomb; German idea brought to US by Albert Einstein AB in NYC
• Lead scientist, he and others begged Truman not to use it• Split atoms, release energy, 3 built, 1st tested in NM desert• Tremendous civilian casualty, ignite oxygen? Fearing
impeachment, gave approval• H: 8/6/45, “Little Boy” dropped from the Enola Gay, J told to
surrender or get another, N: 8/9/1945, J told to surrender or get another, cities chosen b/c of factories and b/c they hadn’t been bombed yet
• Almost 80k (city pop 250k) killed instantly in Hiroshima, 40k in Nagasaki
• Japan told to surrender or face another, surrendered on August 14, 1945
• May 8th, 1945 = VE Day August 14th, 1945 = VJ Day• US spends billions of $$ to rebuild G & J b/c learned from WWI
that leaving country in ruin leads to more problems!• If Japan surrenders to USSR (declared war 8/9/45)
Communism may spread there.
The Manhattan Project was…
J. Robert Oppenheimer…
What was the atomic bomb?
Why Truman was hesitant to use the bomb?
Two reasons Hiroshima & Nagasaki chosen as targets and explain them…
Effects of the bomb…
How the bomb’s use led to conclusion of WWII
In your opinion, should the US have used it? Write a paragraph with at least two underlined reasons
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