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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. Who is the Director of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge after World War I?

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

3. Who is the second woman in history to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Vienna?

4. When does the Allied campaign at the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula begin?

5. What is the topic of Enrico Fermi's fundamental paper?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Mor Karman famous?

3. How does President Roosevelt authenticate his decision to expedite the research of the atomic bomb?

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

5. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?

6. When Szilard enrolls in the University of Berlin, the physics faculty includes three Nobel Laureates in physics. Who are two of these three and what is one scientific discovery they are famous for?

7. President Roosevelt wants policy considerations regarding the making of the atomic bomb limited to the "Top Policy Group". Who is in this group and who is excluded?

8. Is Rutherford's atom a merely theoretical construct?

9. Under what circumstances is teflon developed?

10. What is the "Pale of Settlement"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The United States is developing two types of atomic bombs. Compare and contrast these bombs. What are their code names?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss Niels Bohr's analysis of the nuclear arms race to come. How does the existence of the atomic bomb change the world? What proposals does Bohr have?

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