AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I
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designing weapons for the D-Day invasion
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building satellites to spy on the Axis nations
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creating materials for biological and chemical warfare
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developing the atomic bomb
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Detailed explanation-1: -Who were the most important scientists associated with the Manhattan Project? American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer headed the project to develop the atomic bomb, and Edward Teller was among the first recruited for the project. Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi built the first nuclear reactor.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Manhattan Project brought forth a new revolution in arms technology, rerouting military policy around the globe. The scientists working on this project had one goal: developing an atomic super weapon that would help the U.S. secure victory over the Axis powers during World War II.
Detailed explanation-3: -Under the Manhattan Project, the US military operated secret plants in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Hanford, Washington, to produce the needed uranium and plutonium elements necessary for a bomb.
Detailed explanation-4: -Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project’s scientific director and leader of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Detailed explanation-5: -Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi, DuPont’s Crawford Greenewalt and Kellogg’s Percival Keith, MIT’s Vannevar Bush, Harvard’s James B. Conant, and Berkeley’s Ernest O. Lawrence.