Atomic Bombs

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Imperial War Museums 2025

Japan had began to expand and modernize but lacked recources to do so. They occupied French Indochina to secure oil and other resources for their military.

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Harry S.Truman Library and Museum

America froze Japanese assets in the U.S due to Japan occupying French Indochina and launched an oil embargo.

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Britannica

The 5 Power Naval Limitation Treaty was signed by the U.S, UK, Japan, France and Italy, February 6 1922. This was to help limit the number of ships possesed by each navy.

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National Park Service

The Manhattan Project was a top secret project created during WW2 to develop the worlds first atomic weapons before Germany

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National Park Service

A physicist named Leo Szilard came to the conclusion of how nuclear chain reactions can be used to form very powerful weapons.

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National Park Service

The Army Corps of Engineers headed by Brigadier General Leslie Groves formed the Manhattan Project in New York.

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National Park Service

There were two paths that were used to create the atomic bombs: uranium and plutonium. This was an expensive project with undetermined sucess

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On December 7 at 7:48am, 177 of the Imperial Japanese navy attacked the US naval base in Oahu, Hawaii

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Britannica

Kamikaze means “divine wind”

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National Park Service

The Los Alamos Laboratory became a design and fabrication for the newly built atomic weapons established in northern New Mexico

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Brookings

1. Little Boy→August 6, 1945→Hiroshima

2. Fat Man→August 9, 1945→Nagasaki

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Brookings

The total cost for the making of the atomic bombs was $21,570,821,00

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National Park Service

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America was an imperialist nation and wanted to stick with their ideology and not expand to over sea colonies

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Due to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans faced extreme racism and had to be relocated to Canada, Nevada, and Utah

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DLP Forum

A big concern for the use of nuclear weapons is the acceleration of climate change, as the weapons can cause global warming. Such as: firestorm, dust, drastic drop in temperature