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What was the US plan for ending the Pacific War? The Manhattan Project What was the US plan for ending the Pacific War?

I. Did Japan commit war crimes during WWII? YES! A. Rape of Nanking (300,000 civilians killed) NO! YES! C. Bataan Death March (1,600 POWS killed) B. Pearl Harbor (2,300 military killed)

II. Developing the A-Bomb A. 1939: Germans begin work on atomic bomb (a-bomb) B. FDR authorizes a secret plan, “Manhattan Project” to build an A-bomb 1. Project led by Gen. Leslie R. Groves & physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and developed at Los Alamos Ntl Lab in New Mexico 2. could release more energy than 20,000 tons of TNT 3. First bomb called Gadget was tested in a controlled explosion “Trinity Test” Trinity Test

4. Second bomb was named “Little Boy” C. August 6, 1945: a plane named the Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, Japan D. Japan doesn’t surrender. Three days later, a plane named Bockscar dropped the third bomb named “Fat Man” on Nagasaki, Japan E. Japan surrenders on August 14th, 1945