WWII by Michael Burgos https://padlet.com/burgos_michael99/1cay5qtae4l1 WWII Questions en-us 2017-02-16 14:17:04 UTC 2025-12-16 21:53:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png The Manhattan Project burgos_michael99 https://padlet.com/burgos_michael99/1cay5qtae4l1/wish/154312052 1) The letter warned FDR that other countries have nuclear weapons which caused America wanting to have their own nuclear weapons.
2) Yes, because they felt insecure because other countries had nuclear weapons and with the rise of dictators its only made it worse.
3) 1941 was a successful year because Glenn Seaborg and Arthur Wall discovered plutonium.
4) It had to be presented to an organization with experience in weapon design  On June 18, 1942, Colonel James Marshall of the Army Corps of the Engineers District moved the atomic bomb plans to a new group called the Manhattan Engineer District which is where he got its name The Manhattan Project.
5) Yes, companies like Du point and Kellogg constructed laboratories like Project Y. Groves to improve the construction of the Atom Bomb
6)The significant turning point was when Manhattan project figurehead J.Robert Oppenheimer showed plans of Emilio Segre's fission measurements. This caused plans for the plutonium gun to be shelved. 
7)There were leaks in the project, mass production of plutonium did not occur as planned , production techniques did not appear to be successful, and  the full scale plutonium reactor was acting up and started by itself.
8) No because the atomic bomb caused an excess amount of damage that wasn't necessary to stopping Japan.]]> 2017-02-16 14:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/burgos_michael99/1cay5qtae4l1/wish/154312052 The Formation of The United Nations burgos_michael99 https://padlet.com/burgos_michael99/1cay5qtae4l1/wish/154314477 1)President Franklin D. Roosevelt  wanted to establish an organization to ensure world peace. Roosevelt believed if the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China could work together, other countries would see the world’s superpowers working for a common cause, and join the organization. Franklin D. Roosevelt was influenced by the  League of Nations , but Roosevelt  wanted to avoid the mistakes made by the League of Nations. One of the reasons the League of Nations failed was that it did not include some of the world’s major powers such as the United States and Russia.
 
2)Roosevelt believed if the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China could work together, other countries would see the world’s superpowers working for a common cause, and join the organization. When France was added, it was decided these five nations would comprise the United Nation’s Security Council.
 
 3)The United States and United Kingdom ran into problems with Josef Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union. He wanted increased representation for the members of the Soviet Union. He demanded that all sixteen of the Soviet republics have seats in the United Nations. This would enable him to have more voting power. Both the United States and United Kingdom balked at this idea. America countered by proposing that all forty-eight states in America at that time would also get seats. Stalin withdrew his demand. The three countries agreed on a starting date for talks about the United Nations. 
 
 4)About two weeks beforehand, President Roosevelt suddenly died. Vice President Harry Truman was sworn in as president. He stated that the conference would go on as planned.

5)Three countries whose membership was problematic were Poland, Argentina, and the Ukrainian and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republics (UBSSR). The Soviet Union was opposed to Argentina’s membership. Argentina had been a strong supporter of the Axis Powers during World War II. Latin American countries wanted Argentina to be a member of the United Nations. They vowed to block Poland’s and the UBSSR’s admission if Argentina were not admitted. The United States mediated. It maintained that the countries were at the conference to ensure world peace and to develop working relationships with each other. Argentina and the UBSSR were seated quickly; however, Poland’s admission was not allowed until the conference was over.
 
 6)The Soviet Union thought once one of the countries on the Security Council vetoed a bill, the bill was dead. Some of the smaller countries in the General Assembly were concerned by the Soviet’s interpretation of U.N. procedures. They were concerned that none of their legislation would pass. Truman also was aware of the problem the Soviets were causing. He sent Harry Hopkins to Moscow to negotiate with Stalin. Hopkins had met with Stalin on many issues over the years. After much deliberation, the two men arrived at a compromise that would grant nations on the Security Council less extensive veto power. However, if the Security Council wanted to veto a certain bill, it would not need a unanimous vote to do so. They also agreed to add a sixth member to the Security Council. This membership would be for a one-year period and would rotate through the General Assembly.
 
 7)The charter was sent to the United States Senate where it was approved in an eighty-nine to two vote. Only five senators abstained from voting. The United Nations was created officially on October 24, 1945, when a majority of the countries signed the charter
 

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