Technology and Homeland Security in WWII
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Technology and Homeland Security in WWII
By: Orlin Zlatarski, Max Utner, and Max Schock
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ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY
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Blitzkrieg (lightning war)
• Highly-mechanized
• Penetration + Overpowering
• Ideas from Germans, British, and French
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Radar and Sonar
• Originally called RDF (radio direction finder)
• Developed by British
• Enabled a decisive British victory in the Battle of Britain (1940)
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Rocket Propulsion
• Enabled first long ranged missiles• Randomly fell after certain number of
rotations of propeller• By end of WWII, ± 1.5 km off target• Amazingly accurate• Computer programmed (4 bits program)• Called Doodlebugs by British because of their
buzz sound
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Jet Planes
• Germans developed it first
• Came late in the war (1944 – mass production)
• Not perfected, hardly strategically advantageous
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Norden Bombsight
• Developed by the US (little prior to WWII)
• German spy Herbert Lang leaked information to German Luftwaffe officials
• Used widely by German Luftwaffe by 1942
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Proximity Fuze• Developed by: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, US
• Enabled detonation of explosive device after it reached a predetermined radius
• Very effective
• Substantial influence on the outcome of WWII due to its accuracy and effectively
• Used in Battle of the Bulge against enemy personnel, and against Kamikazis
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Atomic Bomb
• Little Boy (Hiroshima) and Fat Man (Nagasaki)
• Caused Japanese to exit from war
• Major implications in following Cold War
• Developed by the American: Robert Oppenheimer under direction of Leslie Groves