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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how many wealthy Jewish men do the Germans send to concentration camps during the German Kristallnacht?

2. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?

3. Who founds big-machine physics in America?

4. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?

5. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's patent applications in England?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Joliot-Curies discovery that contributes to the scientific knowledge about radioactivity?

2. What happens to the Nobel Prize medals that Max Von Laue and James Franck had given Niels Bohr for safekeeping?

3. Under what circumstances is teflon developed?

4. What is General Dwight Eisenhower's reaction to the dropping of the atomic bombs?

5. Why is the neutron important to nuclear physics?

6. Why does the Fermi family have to leave Italy?

7. What is Chaim Weizmann's discovery that helps the British war effort?

8. How does the first direct contact between nuclear physicists and the U.S. government occur?

9. How does Bohr's memorandum regarding the nuclear arms race to come and the post nuclear war get to President Roosevelt?

10. What project is code named Mike and where is it designed and tested?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The American atomic bomb building project gets bogged down in bureaucracy. How does the program get jump started? Who are the major people involved? What ware the historical events involved? Is there support in the United States for the program?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Trinity and Silverplate. What are they? What is their role in the dropping of the atomic bombs? Who are the people involved?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the development of the atomic bomb in Britain, Germany and Tokyo. What ends the development?

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