7.2.2+Manhattan+Project

=The Manhattan Project =

toc =Description= The Manhattan Project was more then just dropping the bomb. It was all of the research, and the competition with everyone else around the world to be the first to make the bomb and then end the bomb. The day that the Germans split the atom and realized that it made so much energy is the day the world of bombs changed forever. Every military power in the world wanted be the first to create one and become the most powerful. Only one would prevail, and the one was us! We had two plants and team after team working on making this bomb and finding the perfect element to make this bomb that would have the most energy and end this war. We know that this bomb would decide the whole war. We knew that if Japan didn't want to comply that they would have to pay for bombing us and then not complying. They made their decisions in the end and they paid. Leo Szliard was the first person to want to make the bomb. He found out that the Germans had done this so he wanted to be the first to make the atomic bomb. So he went to his life long friend Albert Einstein to talk to him about writing and co-signing the bill to go to FDR. So after the letter was approved and the project got money. Then General Groves was assigned the job of making the team.
 * The Manhattan Project**

August 2, 1939 just before the start of World War II, Albert Einstein and other scientists wrote to president FDR, informing him that Germany and the Nazis were trying to purify Uranium-235 and create an atomic bomb. The U.S. knew that they couldn't let them make the atomic bomb so we set to work to make it first. This project was top secret and became known as the Manhattan Project. Nearly two billion dollars was spent on the Manhattan Project in only six years. A few scientists who were a huge part of the project were, David Bohm, Leo Szilard, Robert Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. The bomb was tested in a desert in New Mexico. The bomb was so hot some of the sand in the desert turned straight to glass. Some people even thought that the sun has risen twice that day. On August 6, 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It’s target was the Aioi Bridge, which it missed by 800 yards. However, it still managed to wipe out an area 1/2 mile wide, kill 66,000 people, and injure 69,000. The destruction covered an area 3 miles wide. The plane that dropped the first atomic bomb was called the Enola Gay. It was manned by a crew of 12 men and the pilot, Paul Tibbets, named the plane after his mom. On August 9, 1945 the U.S. dropped another bomb on the city of Nagasaki. It missed it’s target by 1 1/2 miles, but it still managed to wipe out half of the city, killing 39,000 and injuring 25,000. The bombs were created in the following places: Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, Argonne, and Hanford.
 * Dropping the Bomb**

=The Videos=

Jared and Audrey
Our video is about the atomic bomb. We decided to do this because it was a game changer in the war. It is what got Japan out of the war that way we could focus all of our attention on Germany. It describes the process and challenges of making it, who dropped it, and the amount of damage it had caused. media type="custom" key="9095538"

James Couey
My video was about the atomic bomb. I decided to do this topic because it helped out America in the WWII. My video shows four letters that Einstein sent to FDR. It also shows some of the bombs that were dropped such as the "fat man" and "little boy." It then shows some of the buildings that were used to create the bombs. media type="custom" key="9095580"

Jordan and Logan
Our video is about the atomic bomb and the opinions of whether people thought we should drop the bomb or not. Many felt that it was not needed and Japan was ready to surrender anyways. The video shows where the bombs were dropped and some of the after affects of "Fat Man" and "Little Boy". We decided to do our video about the atomic bomb because we've learned a lot about it and we both showed interest in the topic. These two bombs ended the war and changed the way we look at weapons forever. media type="custom" key="9093678"

Hunter and Lake
Our video is based on the time line of WWII but we focused mainly on the Manhattan Project. It starts of on Pearl Harbor, goes to D-Day then tells about the Manhattan Project. One of our maps shows close to the starting point of the Japanese bombers. It was difficult to put the starting point because we had to find the decimal location on Google Earth. The biggest issue to overcome was trying to tell the stories with the pictures instead of jumping all around. media type="custom" key="9107898"

Mike Krauskopf
My video is on the Manhattan Project and the difference that it did make in WWII. It made a huge difference with everything else that was going on in America. With the Over producing that the woman who were working were doing, to the the Manhattan Project. The beginning of the project wasn't easy. Trying to find the money, and the perfect scientists to do this project. After they found people to work on it, the difficult was finding the perfect element and then finding a way to make the bombs without worrying about it exploding in the plane. While all of this research was going on engineers were hard at work trying to make a plane big enough to make the trip, and be able to drop the bomb and be fast enough to get home safe. The difficult part of making this video was putting everything together. Writing what I wanted to say was easy, but putting the videos and pictures in there and then my voice and a song was the hard part. After I got that figured out it was easy. media type="custom" key="9106872"

Damon Manchester
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