The Atomic Bomb

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

• World War I

• World War II

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

What president made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in World War II?      

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Harry S. Truman

• John F. Kennedy

The scientists were scared of the damage the bomb created

• True

• False

Why did the United States decide to drop the bomb rather than invade Japan with soldiers?

• wanted to see if the bomb worked

•  did not think they could defeat the Japanese

• did not have the soldiers or weapons left to attack Japan

• They estimated that 500,000 to 1 million Allied soldiers would die in an invasion

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the 2 cities bombed with the Atomic bomb?

• True

• False

What Japanese city was the atomic bomb first dropped on? 

• Kobe

• Nagasaki 

• Tokyo

• Hiroshima

^{The _________ was the secret project in the United States that developed the atomic bomb}

• The New York Project

• The Manhattan Project

• The Atom Splitting Project

• The Nuclear Project

What was the main purpose of the Manhattan Project _________?

• Forcing Japan to surrender and having control over postwar policy

• Just to spend a large amount of money

• To scare other Nations

What were the names of both bombs?

• Young boy and Old man

• Young man and Old boy

• Little boy and Fat man

What was significant about the atomic bomb?

• it was more destructive than any bomb previously used

• nothing

• it had to be deployed from a submarine