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The Manhattan Project - Crash Course

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the project to create the first atomic bomb?

a)

Operation overlord

b)

Operation Tea Time

c)

Manhattan Project

d)

The Little boy and Fat man bomb

2.

These two men put together the idea of a nuclear reactor

a)

Szilard and Fermi

b)

Einstein and Tolstoy

c)

Harms and Schifano

d)

Delaconta and Gerhart

3.

True or false FDR was told that the Germans had the possibility of achieving a nuclear weapon first

a)

True

b)

False

4.

True or false: Einstein completely opposed the Manhattan Project

a)

True

b)

False

5.

The very first nuclear chain reaction took place...

a)

Under the football stadium of Chicago University

b)

In Los Alamos, New Mexico

c)

ON Williams Island, Boston Massachusetts

d)

University of Portland Oregon

6.

True or false: Native Americans mined the radioactive Uranium in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Who is known as the father of the Nuclear bomb?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Julius Rosenburg

c)

Martin Sheen

d)

Anthony Kovace

e)

Robert Oppenheimer

8.

What text was quoted at the Trinity Test

a)

The Torah

b)

The Quran

c)

The Bhagavad Gita

d)

The Gospel

9.

Which President dropped the Bomb

(a)  

10.

What was the name of the PLane that dropped the Atomic Bomb

a)

Enola Gay

b)

Black Betty

c)

Fat Man

d)

Spirit of St. Louis

11.

What was the name of the second bomb?

a)

Nagasaki's revenge

b)

Fat Man

c)

The Red Bomb

d)

Francis

12.

What was the name of the second city that was Bombed

a)

Tokyo

b)

Edo

c)

Nagasaki

d)

Hiroshima

e)

Kobe

13.

True or false: The Bomb brought about world peace

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Between 46 and 58 the UNited states used this atoll to test Bombs

a)

Malki

b)

Bikini

c)

Trinity

d)

Dowsawa

15.

social scientist Carol Cohn pointed out in 1987 in her classic portrait of the US culture of strategizing about global nuclear war, Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals, the whole point of bigger, better weapons of mass destruction was to...

a)

Keep the world safe

b)

Rain destruction on your enemies

c)

Prove you have a bigger bomb

d)

Destroy fascism