Technological Advancements of WWII

Radar

• Radar was first used by the Germans and Great Britain.

• Great Britain called it RDF standing for Range and Direction Finding.

• While in Gemany it was call Funkmessgerät (radio measuring device).

• In the mid 1940's the Royal Airforce in Britain had put them up for Britains air defense.

• While in Germany, they did not use radar a lot, Adolf Hitler did not support the idea.

First Radars

German RadarGreat Britain

Radar

Atomic Bomb

• On August 6 1945 a U.S. B29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, three days later another bomb was dropped but in the city of Nagasaki.

• Hiroshima - 80,000+ died

• Nagasaki - 40,000+ died

• Manhattan Project - Since 1942 over 100,000 scientist have been working on bombs.

Aircraft• In wwII planes were more sleeker, powerful and advance.

• Instead of being made of wood like most wwI planes were, wwII planes were made of aluminum.

• They also used supercharged piston engines.

• The jet engine was developing during wwII by Germany, Great Britain and the U.S.

• Towards the end of the war, large bombers were developed

• For Example: the B29 bomber (superfortress) was the bomber that nuked Japan.

B-29 Bomber

P-51 Mustang Red Tail

Both B-29 & P-51 flying together

Computer

• In wwII Germany used two similar machines to encrypt messages prior to radioi transmission.

• The two machines were called "Enigma" and "Fish".

• The German's were so confident in these two machines they said it could not be broken. They were wrong, British cryptanalysts broke both Enigma and Fish.

Enigma & Fish Machine

Tanks

• Tanks in wwII grew larger in production in most countries

• There was an advancement in tanks improving there speed, armour, efficiency, guns and many more.

• Here is a quote from Hasso Manteuffel, commander of the German 7th Panzer Division

"Tanks must be fast. That, I would say, is the most important lesson of the war in regard to tank design. The Panther was on the right lines, as a prototype."

Light Tank M2 (U.S.)

Hotchkiss H35 (France)

Fiat 3000 (Italy)

site

• http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/atomic-bomb

• http://worldwar2.org.uk/ww2-planes

• http://www.ellsbury.com/ultrafirstcomputers.htm

• http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/World_War_II_Aircraft

• http://www.chuckhawks.com/best_tanks_WWII.htm

• http://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/ww2-tanks.asp