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| World
War II Technology |
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| mid
1930s - 1940s |
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Alan
Turing
Robert Oppenheimer
Adolph Hitler
Winston Churchill
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Hilter
comes to power in Post World War I Germany World War II won by Allied
Forces (1945)
Concerntration camps
Atomic Bomb developed (Manhattan Project)
Atomic Bomb used for the first time at Hiroshima, Japan
The role of women chantes on the merican homefront (Rosie the Riveter)
Enigma code is broken by bletchley Park codebreakers (led by Alan
Turing). Germans continue to use the code unaware that all their
transmissions are being monitored by the Allied forced. |
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Photos
of Time Square kiss, machine for deciphering Japanese purple diplomatic
code, atomic bomb mushroom cloud, planes flying in formation, enola
Gay, little boy unit, & Dr. J. robert Oppenheimer, original
sources from national Archives Record Administration (NARA), http://www.nara.gov
Enigma machine & Photo of Alan Turing, courtesy of Computer
Museum History Center, http://www.computerhistory.org
Eniac pegboard, courtesy of Historic Computer Images, http://ftp.arl.mil/ftp/historic-computers/ |
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| Mary
Thompson |
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