New Deal
Originally Boulder Dam
Colorado River - Lake Mead - Answers Hoover Dam
New Deal
Created to regulate distribution of water and electricity
Built 20+ dams - Answers Tennessee Valley Authority
New Deal
Wide margin between urban and rural areas access to electricity
Installation of electrical distribution systems - Answers Rural Electrification Administration
New Deal
Columbia River - Pacific NW - Answers Grand Coulee Dam
New Deal
Unemployment Relief
Employed 3 million young men - Answers Civilian Conservation Corps
81 army vehicles from DC to San Francisco - Answers First Transcontinental Motor Convoy
Start of defense contracts - Answers Eli Whitney
Identical parts that can be mass produced and replaced - Answers Interchangeable Parts
Thomas Edison helped to create
Coordinates inventive activity for the military
Few ideas - Answers Naval Consulting Board
Headed by Vannevar Bush
Massive Budget and reported only to the president
Oversaw many projects; Including the Manhattan Project - Answers Office of Scientific Research
and Development
, Developed by the British
Shared with the Americans
US research at MIT Rad Lab - Answers Radar
Worlds first computer
Calculated artillery firing tables - Answers ENIAC
Project too big for one organization alone
Eisenhower worried about people making money from war
Never cut spending - Answers Military Industrial Complex
Universe of atoms - Answers Democritus
Discovered electrons - Answers JJ Thomson
First to understand theoretical possibility of atomic bomb
Asked Einstein for help - Answers Leo Szilard
Created worlds first nuclear reactor at University of Chicago - Answers Enrico Fermi
In charge of Manhattan Project - Answers Robert Oppenheimer
Detonation site of first nuclear weapon
Plutonium Bomb - Answers Trinity Test
United States
France
United Kingdom
Russia
China
North Korea
India
Pakistan
Israel - Answers Countries with Nuclear Weapons
Developed V2 rocket for Nazis