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Manhattan timeline
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Hahn and Strassman
Split the atoms -
Einstein letter
Written a letter to FDR, letter is ignored by government -
Meitner and Frisch
Discovered Fission -
President
President decides to go ahead with the development of the atomic bomb -
Enola Gay
The plane chosen to carry the bomb for Hiroshima -
Trinity Test
Test of first Nuclear bomb -
Hiroshima
First place where bomb was blown up, 200,000 died. -
Nagasaki
Second place to get bombed. 70,000 died -
End of war
Japan surrenders -
FDR
makes the decision to make the bomb, dies in office -
Spring 1940
Hitler strikes the UK and gets the USA's attention
