Please write your answers on binder paper. If you don't finish today - then this assignment is due Monday as homework:
1) What was the exact date that the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima?
2) The atomic bomb was the equilvalent of how many tons of TNT?
3) What was the name of the second Japanese city that was bombed just three days later?
4) What was the name of the B-29 bomber?
5) What was the American nickname for the ten-foot atomic bomb?
6) What did Captain William S. Parsons think to himself while he was arming Little Boy?
7) Little Boy was constructed using what type of uranium?
8) How much money was spent to research the atomic bomb?
9) What four cities had been chosen as original targets?
10) How many feet above the city did the bomb explode?
11) What was the name of the bridge that was the target?
12) The mushroom cloud was estimated to reach a height of how many feet?
13) Within three miles of the explosion how many buildings were destroyed?
14) How many people in Hiroshima died immediately after the explosion?
15) How many people died from radiation within the next five years?
16) Why was the second bombing run delayed?
17) What city was the first choice for the second bombing run?
18) Why did the target city change?
19) What was the name of the second bomb?
20) What percent of Nagasaki was destroyed?
Earn $1 Olson dollar. Be the first student to tell Mr. Olson that you think the Japanese make really good cars.
A DIFFERENT student can earn an Olson dollar if they can be the first student in class to tell me what country Ms. Lynes is from.