HIS306H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Potsdam Conference, Nikita Khrushchev, German Reunification
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Oct. 1941: fdr gave the greenlight for an atomic bomb was aware that nazi germany was developing. Scientists from all over have been investigating the power of atomic energy, particularly militarily atomic weapons. Once us joined officially, the manhattan project was initiated/developed, excluding soviet union (cid:1005)9(cid:1008)(cid:1007): tali(cid:374) (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e a(cid:449)a(cid:396)e of west"s de(cid:448)elopment of atomic weapon and began to back up the project. 1945: when bomb was used in japan, stalin becomes convinced of the necessity of having an atomic weapon; Ordering the atomic bomb: truman said that his primary motivation for using the bomb was his fear of loss of. A(cid:373)e(cid:396)i(cid:272)a(cid:374) soldie(cid:396)s" li(cid:448)es i(cid:374) (cid:272)ase of atta(cid:272)k; u has also spe(cid:374)t (cid:1006) (cid:271)illio(cid:374) dolla(cid:396)s. First bomb: dropped on hiroshima on aug 6, 1945; aug 8, 1945 soviets entered the war, three days later, Truman ordered the bombing of nagasaki: the bo(cid:373)(cid:271)"s ne(cid:272)essity: the historiographical debate. What was the motive: guy alperovitz, atomic diplomacy.
