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25 Cards in this Set
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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President who ordered creation of the Atomic Bomb
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December 7, 1941
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Day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
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Manhattan Project
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Name of project to create the Atomic Bomb
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General Leslie Groves
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Head of Manhattan Project
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Robert Oppenheimer
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Government adviser of Atomic Bomb, Physicist from Harvard
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Los Alamos
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Lab where the bomb is built with no contact to the outside world
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Oak Ridge, TN
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Uranium Plant for Atomic Bomb
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Claus Fuchs
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Russian spy working on the Manhattan Project
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B 29 (Superfortress)
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Aircraft created to deliver the Atomic Bomb
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Colonel Paul Tibbets
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Pilot for B29
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509th Composite Group
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Troop at Wendover Field
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Wendover Field
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Place where troops train
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Little Boy
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Uranium bomb
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Fat Man
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Plutonium bomb
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Trinity
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Code name for uranium bomb test
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"Now I am become death, the shatterer of worlds"
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-Oppenheimer
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Harry S Truman
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New President in charge of Atomic Bomb team after the death of FDR
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Nagasaki
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4th on list of target cities- Place where second bomb is dropped
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Pearl Harbor
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Place where Japan attacks US
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Enola Gay
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B 29 Pilot that dropped the first Atomic Bomb- Little Boy
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August 6, 1945
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Day A-Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
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Bockscar
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Name of the B 29 that dropped the Fat Man
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August 9, 1945
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Day A-Bomb was dropped on Nagasaki
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August 15, 1945
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"Victory over Japan Day"
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September 2, 1945
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Japan Surrenders
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