Here Comes the Boom

By atomicbomb.com

  • Pearl Harbor: LE

    On December 7, 1945, just before 8 in the morning, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The attack lasted just two hours, but it was devastating. The Japanese destroyed nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. After the assult, FDR declared war on Japan, this introduced the US in to WWII. This also got us started on the Manhattan Project.

  • The Creation of the Manhattan Project: EGV

    The Creation of the Manhattan Project: EGV
    In 1938 nuclear fission was discovered this led to a nuclear arms race. On May 12, 1942 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt assigned a secret task force of scientists to create the worlds first atomic bomb. The atomic bomb that would be made in this project, would aid the United States in bringing an end to World War Two. The Manhattan Project was a twenty billion dollar project that would supply jobs to 130,000 people. One well known scientist such as Albert Einstein worked on the project.
  • Period: to

    Events of the Atomic Bomb

  • Harry S. Truman becomes President: LE

    On April 12, 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies. His Vice-President, Harry S Truman, becomes the 33rd President of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt never told Harry Truman anything about the Manhattan Project or the atomic bomb, so Truman spent his first couple of weeks as President completely unaware of the atom bombs. He then later was more informed

  • The First Successful American Test of the Atomic Bomb: EGV

    The First Successful American Test of the Atomic Bomb: EGV
    The first atomic bomb was dropped in New Mexico as part of the Trinity tests. The Trinity test was a code name for the detonation of the first atomic bomb. The first atomic bomb was created after three years of experimentation and was named Gadget. The energy released from Gadget was about twenty-two kilotons of TNT. The radioactive substances used in this atomic bomb would have been Plutonium-239 and Uranium-235.

  • Countdown to Hiroshima: LE

    On August 3rd, 1945, Little Boy was all ready to be dropped on Hiroshima. President Harry S. Truman gave American forces permission to drop ''Little Boy'' on Hiroshima on August 6th, just three days after.  On August 5th, Little Boy is ready to go, waiting for the weather to clear up, and waiting for General LeMay to make the call to drop the bomb.

  • The Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan: EGV

    The Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan: EGV
    The second atomic bomb that was made was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. The only change that was made to this atomic bomb was that it used uranium based detonation. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was nicknamed Little Boy. When detonated Little Boy created an energy force of fifteen kilotons of TNT. The bomb killed 90,000 - 136,000 people in Hiroshima. Half of the death count happened on the first day of the bombing. The other half of the death count was from illnesses caused from the bomb.

  • The Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan: EGV

    The Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan: EGV
    The third atomic bomb made was used to bomb Nagasaki, Japan. This bomb had the nickname of Fat Man. It was nicknamed Fat Man due to its large and round shape. Fat Man had an estimated detonation force of 18 to 23 kilotons of TNT. They used uranium like the Little Boy bomb as the radioactive fuel. Roughly 39,000 to 80,000 people died from the atomic bomb dropped in Nagasaki. Fat Man weighed 10,000 pounds and created a destruction zone of 2.6 square miles.

  • President Truman's Radio Address: LE

    President Truman's Radio Address: LE
    On August 9, 1945, President Truman made a speech to America over one of his weekly radio addresses. His speech states that U.S. forces have dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. By the time of his speech, the other bomb has already been dropped on Nagasaki.

  • Japan Surrenders: LE

    Japan Surrenders: LE
    On August 15, 1945, Japan informally surrendered to the Americans. Emperor Hirohito went on the radio and said: "We have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is insufferable.” On September 2, 1945, Japan officially surrendered by having Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu sign their names on the Instrument of Surrender. This signing also brought an end to World War II.

  • Clean Up of the Damage of Atomic Bombs: EGV

    Clean Up of the Damage of Atomic Bombs: EGV
    Most of the clean up was done by August of 1947. The first step of clean up was to set up medical posts to aid the injured and they buried their dead. Next they began to clear rubble. Finally in March of 1946 the main roads had been cleared of rubble, allowing bigger equipment to proceed cleaning up. It took two whole years to clean up the physical destruction of the bombs not to mention the radiation. In parts of Japan they left the destruction sites as they were to serve of a remembrance.

  • Cites Part One

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  • Cites Part Two

    1. "Atomic bomb." UXL Science, UXL, 2008. Research in Context, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=MSIC&sw=w&u=clou20020&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CCV2646000124&it=r&asid=a56d0158f729d31c9c7a58228e3f3b3e. Accessed 20 Apr. 2017.
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  • Cites Part Three

    1. "Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: War, Gale, 2009. Research in Context, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=MSIC&sw=w&u=clou20020&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CEJ3048500191&it=r&asid=b28928946f5920c1b8da6f3066db90ec. Accessed 20 Apr. 2017.
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