Download The Manhattan Project and Beyond

YALTA CONFERENCE
 FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met in February of 1945 to
discuss Germany’s UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER and
DE-NAZIFICATION after WWII
 Germany was divided into 4 parts
Controlled by France, United States, Great Britain,
and USSR
Stalin agreed that “FREE ELECTIONS” would take
place in Eastern (Soviet controlled) Germany
THIS DID NOT HAPPEN and led to hostility during
the Cold War between the USSR and USA
MANHATTAN PROJECT
The Manhattan
Project began
modestly in 1939,
but grew to
employ more than
130,000 people
and cost nearly
US $2 billion
(roughly
equivalent to
$25.8 billion as of
2013).
HIROSHIMA BOMBED
An estimated 80,000
people were killed
immediately.
By the end of the
year, injury and
radiation brought
total casualties to
90,000–140,000.
Approximately 69% of
the city's buildings
were completely
destroyed, and
another 7%
severely damaged.
NAGASAKI BOMBED
3 days after Hiroshima
About 70,000 people were killed
by the bomb codenamed “Fat
Man." According to
statistics, the death toll
from the atomic bombing
totaled 73,884, as well as
another 74,909 injured
Another several hundred
thousand diseased and dying
due to fallout and other
illness caused by radiation
Japan surrenders September 2,
1945
THE AFTERMATH
AFTERMATH STATISTICS
An ESTIMATED 250,000 total people died
in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This includes those who died from:
Radiation
Cancer
Leukemia
Burns
ETC.
PROS AND CONS
Pros:
Ended World
War II very
quickly
1 U.S. Casualty
Saved
Japanese
Lives?
Cons:
Innocent
Japanese Lives
Lost
Disease
(Leukemia,
Cancer, etc.)
Pain, radiation,
burns, etc.