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Hahn and Stressman
Split the Atom -
Einstein
Writes a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt but is ignored by the government. -
Meitner and Frisch
Discovered fission -
Hitler
Hitler strikes the UK and gets the USA's attention -
President
President decides to go ahead with the development of the atomic bomb -
Period: to
Manhatten Project
The code name for the Atomic Bomb project -
Enrico Fermi
Head of Chicago research.
First controlled nuclear reaction occured -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Makes the decision to make the bomb, he dies in the office -
Trinity Test
The test of the first nuclear bomb. It happed in Almagorda, New Mexico. -
Hiroshima
Bomb exploded 1900 feet above the ground.
70,000 people killed instantly
200,000 people died due to the effects of Bomb. -
Nagasaki
Bomb exploded just above the ground
70,000 died by the end of the year -
End of the war
Japan surrenders
