Manhattan Project

During which war did the U.S. create the atomic bomb? 

• World War I
• World War II
• Korean War
• Vietnam War

During this time period, many of Germany's top scientists had fled the country because...

• they didn't like fascists.
• they were Jewish.
• they had brown hair.

A chemist named Otto Hahn in which European country first split a uranium atom? 

• France
• The Soviet Union
• Austria
• Germany

Which famous scientist wrote the letter alerting the U.S. President, FDR, about the German's discovery of nuclear fission?

• Marie Curie
• Albert Einstein
• Robert Oppenheimer
• Katherine Johnson

In which U.S. state was the city of Los Alamos, which is where the physicists worked to create the atomic bomb?

• New Mexico
• Washington
• Pennsylvania
• Massachusetts

Which European country had a "heavy water" factory Hitler planned to use to make the atomic bomb?  This factory needed to be sabotaged by the Resistance forces.

• Sweden
• Germany
• Norway
• Denmark

The leading physicist on the Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer, was from which American University? 

• Stanford
• Harvard
• Penn State
• Berkeley

The atomic engineers in this city needed to do the very dangerous job of sorting Uranium-235 from Uranium-238.  Uranium-235 was used to make the first atomic bomb.

• Philadelphia, PA
• Houston, TX
• Oak Ridge, TN
• San Francisco, CA

How did the FBI catch Harry Gold? 

• They caught him meeting a spy.
• They caught him in a lie about never leaving Philly.
• They overheard a conversation between him and the KGB.
• He admitted it right away. 

As the war was ending and the Allies split Germany into four parts, what were the American spies of the Alsos mission searching for to take or destroy?

• German physicists and labs
• German shepherds
• Swiss chocolate
• Soviet spies