1. By: Lizjared Ortiz, Christine Pschierer, Michael Mclean

2. Ukraine Japan Cuba

4.  The Manhattan project  509 th  Planning the Attack was important  Hiroshima was the first  Nagasaki was the last  Controversy

5.  Event in Cold War  Response to failed Bay of Pigs invasion  Two superpowers face off  Containment  Missiles placed in Cuba by Soveits  Blockade enforced (left US in control)  Agreement ended the conflict

6.  Explosion of power plants  Hundreds died away  Radioactive aftermath  Original explosion in the Ukraine  Cancer associated

7.  Enola Gay  Paul Tibbett  Fat Man  Little Boy  President John F. Kennedy  Nikita Khrushchev  Fidel Castro  Ronald Reagan  Mikhail Gorbachev  Volodymyr Shcherbytsky

11.  Radiation still occurs today in Chernobyl  The US would’ve started a nuclear war with the Soviet Union if Khrushchev didn’t agree to withdraw missiles from Cuba at the last minute  The original target for the second atomic bomb was Kokura. Nagasaki was just a backup plan

12.  For the duration of the Cuban Missile crisis, bombing drills were done in schools across the US  Chernobyl disaster: only level 7 incident on the international Nuclear Event Scale  After the end of the world war 2 US helped build up the cities they destroyed in Japan