Manhattan Project: Exploring WW2 History

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3. National museum of Chad(Group 2) Curator’s Office Our message as the National Museum of Chad is to help people learn more about world history. This museum focuses on the Manhattan project and how it effected WWII. We answered the driving question by collecting information about the Manhattan project to help people make better decisions in the future. Our museum would like to memorialize all the peoples’ families who died during the atomic bombing because it’s difficult to deal with the loss of a family member. ] Return to Entry Note: Virtual museums were first introduced by educators at Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham, Pennsylvania. This template was designed by Dr. Christy Keeler. View the Educational Virtual Museums website for more information on this instructional technique.

4. What was the Manhattan Project Room 1 Return to Entry

5. People involved with the Manhattan project Room 2 Return to Entry

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9. Albert Einstein helping with the Manhattan project In artifact 1 this is Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard signing a letter to president Roosevelt warning him that Germany may be building an atomic bomb. science.howstuffworks.com Return to Exhibit

10. Project Trinity Test Site This is an atomic bomb at the trinity test site. This picture stated that the Manhattan project was the first involvement in nuclear weapons. The advances on nuclear warfare where the Manhattan project. The Manhattan project was the development of nuclear weapons and the bombing of Hiroshima. the-a-bomb.weebly.com Return to Exhibit

11. Manhattan Engineering District This is the engineering district for the Manhattan Project. This is where all of the parts for the Nuclear bomb came from and were assembled. hcc.mnscu.edu Return to Exhibit

12. President Theodore Roosevelt President Teddy Roosevelt was the president who was given credit for the winning of world war 2. He was thought to be the person to take us out of the great depression. glogster.com Return to Exhibit

13. J. Robert Oppenheimer During the Manhattan project, J. Robert Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and responsible for the research and design of an atomic bomb. He is often known as the “father of the atomic bomb”. www.atomicheritage.org/bios Return to Exhibit

14. Albert Einstein In August 1939, Einstein wrote to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him that the Nazis were working on a new and powerful weapon: an atomic bomb. Fellow physicist Leo Szilard urged Einstein to send the letter and helped him draft it. In July 1940, the U.S. Army Intelligence office denied Einstein the security clearance needed to work on the Manhattan Project. The hundreds of scientists on the project were forbidden from consulting with Einstein, because the left-leaning political activist was deemed a potential security risk. whatculture.com Return to Exhibit

15. Franklin D. Roosevelt On this day in 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt writes a letter marked “secret” to leading Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. In the letter, Roosevelt sought to smooth over the growing antagonism between Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves. Glogster.com Return to Exhibit

16. E6n6r6i6c6o6 F6e6r6m6i ∆ Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist and winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1944, Fermi became American citizen, and at the end of the war he accepted a professorship at the Institute for Nuclear Studies of the University of Chicago, a position which he held until his untimely death. There he turned his attention to high-energy physics, and led investigations into the pion-nucleon interaction. He also served on the Atomic Energy Commission General Advisory Committee. The Enrico Fermi Award is a science and technology honor given by the US government. http://www.atomicheritage.org/bios Return to Exhibit

17. Death toll and the places that were bombed On august 6, 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped from an American B-29 bomber over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It wiped out 90% of the city and killed 80,000 people. Many more people would die later due to radiation exposure. 3 days later the second bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki that killed an estimated 40,000 people. "Hiroshima and Nagasaki Death Toll." Hiroshima and Nagasaki Death Toll. N.p., 10 Oct. 2007. Web. 03 June 2015. Return to Exhibit

18. Radiation and burns The heat of the atomic bomb would strike the human body and produce burns. At the same time the radioactivity would damage the inner tissues of the skin. These would for keloids. Keloids were a type of swelling caused by the effect of the bomb. Linked"Damage of Radiation." Damage of Radiation. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 June 2015. citation goes here Return to Exhibit

19. Were the bombs controversial The atomic bombs were very controversial after being dropped. The supporting side of the bomb thought the dropping of the bombs was required for the Japanese surrender, this would prevent massive casualties on each side. It was also thought that japan would not surrender without an overwhelming demonstration of destructive force. The side opposing the bomb argue it was a war crime, form of terrorism, and that it was immoral to kill that many people. "Atomic+bombww2 - Google Search." Atomic+bombww2 - Google Search. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 June 2015. Return to Exhibit

20. Were the bombs legal? The use of the atomic bomb hastened Japan’s surrender and consequently prevented belligerent people on both sides from being injured or killed, as could have happened had the war continued. Examined objectively, no one can conclude whether or not the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki violated international law. Moreover, given that an international agreement to ban the use of nuclear weapons is yet to be formulated, we think that it is not possible to hastily define it illegal. ….. From the viewpoint of international law, war is fundamentally a situation in which a country isallowed to exercise all means deemed necessary to cause the enemy to surrender. Since the Middle Ages, according to international law, combatants have been permitted to choose the means of injuring the enemy in order to attain the special purpose of war, subject to certain conditions imposed by international customary law and treaties adapted to the times. (Emphasis added.) Glogster.com Return to Exhibit

21. Nagasaki After math of the Bombing This is the aftermath of the Nagasaki bombings of the Manhattan Project. When the project Oficially ended in 1946. B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender. http://www.ibtimes.com/were-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-racist-acts-824867 Return to Exhibit

22. Hiroshima Aftermath This is the After math of the Hiroshima Bombings and officially ended the Manhattan Project in 1946. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/atomic-bombing-hiroshima-nagasaki-69-years-gallery-1.1892958?pmSlide=1.1892952 Return to Exhibit

23. Japanese Surrender .This is a picture of the atomic bomb exploding. This resulted in the Japanese surrendering and therefore the end of the war. The surrender of the Empire of Japan was announced by Imperial Japan on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close. Glogster.com Return to Exhibit

24. Celebration after the war Oakridge Tennessee students celebrate the end of the war. The war led to a vast migration of the American people.  Nine million workers and families moved to the new defense industries, but this caused severe social problems, resulting in higher divorce rates, housing shortages, and schools which were unable to cope with the huge influx of children. Defence.pk Return to Exhibit

25. Manhattan project symbol This is a logo for the Manhattan Project. Some people still believe that we should have ended war without the bombs but it would have killed more people. Other people think that it will happen again in a bigger way but if it happens again it will definitely be bigger because technology keeps advancing. http://churchandstate.org.uk/2010/06/us-the-conservative-christian-big-thinker/ Return to Exhibit

26. Manhattan Project Facility This a picture of one of the facilities in the Project were it was given worldwide priority to advance in its plan. http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Med/Med.html Return to Exhibit

27. Manhattan Project Facilities This is apicture of all the facilities involved in the Manhattan Project around the U.S. These Manhattan properties are first-of-a-kind or one-of-a-kind facilities and devices that used some of the century's most innovative and revolutionary technologies. Hanford's B reactor, which created the plutonium for the Trinity device. http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Med/Med.html Return to Exhibit

28. The Atomic Bomb Explosion This is the Nuclear explosion created by the bomb of the Manhattan Project. http://www.bluesci.org/?p=7902 Return to Exhibit

29. Melted Sand After testing the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert, scientists of the Manhattan Project figured they'd like to have a souvenir. The radiation and heat generated by the blast melted some of the sand into mini-boulders, later termed "Trinitite." One of these rocks was encased in a glass dome and mounted on a Bakelite paperweight base inscribed "Melted Sand Alamogordo Test July 16, 1945." It measures 5.5" x 5.5" x 3" and may be one of only five produced. The rock has taken on a greenish color and appears other-worldly. We don't know if it's still radioactive. www.invaluable.com Return to Exhibit

30. After the bombing Hiroshima’s population, down to roughly 83,000 soon after the bombing. The sudden population expansion, however, caused acute shortages of food and shelter. Many A-bomb survivors faced death from starvation and exposure unless something was done soon. The council also dealt with immediate issues such as care of orphans, community bathhouses, and use of warehouses in neighboring towns for community housing. http://www.atomicbombmuseum.org/4_ruins.shtml Return to Entrance

31. Manhattan Project Pin The Pin represents the Manhattan project and states that it was the creating and exploration of the nuclear bomb and the group of international scientists that created. Linked citation goes here Return to Entrance

32. Back Wall Artifact When the A-Bomb was dropped Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated and were in shambles. The reaction of the U.S. was that our relationship with Japan became stronger both politically allied and economically we helped them rebuild the cities. Militarily Japan rebuilt itself and made themselves strong again. Bothe other countries and the U.S. were glad that we used the nuclear bomb to end the war because of the fact that it finally ENDED the war that killed so many. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2008/08/us-drops-atomic.html Return to Exhibit