Manhattan timeline

By mirnesd24
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    Manhattan timeline

  • Hahn and Strassman

    Hahn and Strassman

    Split the atoms

  • Einstein letter

    Written a letter to FDR, letter is ignored by government

  • Meitner and Frisch

    Discovered Fission

  • President

    President decides to go ahead with the development of the atomic bomb

  • Enola Gay

    The plane chosen to carry the bomb for Hiroshima

  • Trinity Test

    Test of first Nuclear bomb

  • Hiroshima

    First place where bomb was blown up, 200,000 died.

  • Nagasaki

    Second place to get bombed. 70,000 died

  • End of war

    Japan surrenders

  • FDR

    makes the decision to make the bomb, dies in office

  • Spring 1940

    Hitler strikes the UK and gets the USA's attention