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Richard Russel
Richard B. Russell Jr. became one of the youngest members of the Georgia House of Representatives upon his election in 1920. By the time of this 1928 photograph, he was serving as Speaker of the House. Russell would later take office in 1931 as Georgia's youngest governor, and he entered national politics as a U.S. senator in 1933. Richard B. Russell Jr.
served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, -
Holocaust
The Holocaust (Shoah) was a unique event in 20th century history. It evolved slowly between 1933 and 1945. It began with discrimination; then the Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted; and finally they were treated as less than human beings and murdered.During the Second World War the Nazis sought to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and to destroy its culture. In 1941 there were about 11 million Jews living in Europe; by May 1945 the Nazis had murdered six mill -
Bell Aircraft
Georgia's remarkable economic progress in the late twentieth century started with the influx of federal dollars for welfare and defense in the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidential era (1933-45).
A B-29 flies over the Marietta Bell Bomber plant. Kennesaw Mountain is visible in the background.Bell Bomber
Between 1942 and 1945 the Bell Aircraft Corporation transformed Marietta from the small seat of rural Cobb County to one of the main industrial centers of the Sunbelt. After assembly lines bega -
WWII Starts
Britain and France declared war on Germany after the invasion of Poland. The Soviet Union captured ten thousand Polish officers and brutally murdered them. Americans fought for a specific reason, to defeat tyranny. Most of Europe had been invaded my the Nazi Germans. -
Lend Lease
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.” By allowing the transfer of supplies without compensation to Britain, China, the Soviet Union and other countri -
Brunswick Shipyard
This was announced by President Roosevelt as being one of the shipyards that would aid the allied forces from Europe. There were 16,000 worker and they built 99 ships and 85 of them were Liberty Ships. They could haul thousands of pounds of cargo across the Atlantic. -
Savannah Shipyard
Savannah was the other site in Georgia chosen for Liberty Ship construction. The contract here was awarded to Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation, and construction was done on a Savannah River site just east of the city. Although the contract originally called for the building of 36 ships, the shipyard workers ended up churning out 88 ships for the war effort from 1942-1945. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson, recognized as "the father of the two-ocean navy," served twenty-five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of RepresentativesCarl Vinson
When he retired in January 1965, he had served in the U.S. Congress longer than anyone in history. He also set the record for service as chair of a standing committee. He chaired the House Naval Affairs C -
Pearl harbor
Just before 8 a.m. on December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The barrage lasted just two hours, but it was devastating: The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt as -
D-Day
During World War II (1939-1945), the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The invasion was one of the largest amphibious military assaults in hi -
Yalta Meeting
It was a meeting with Wiston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin as WWII was winding down. Stalin broke his promises. Two months later FDR died. -
Hitlers Death
Death of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva (née Braun) committed suicide with him by taking cyanide. -
UN Created
A group of 26 nations gathered together to sign the original Declaration of United Nations, in which each individual nation pledged to continue fighting the Axis powers and refuse to negotiate a separate peace with them. After the war, a conference was held in San Francisco and representatives from 50 different nations attended. At this conference, the United Nations was officially created. -
Hiroshima
The US becomes the first and only country to use atomic weapons during WWII when it drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This started the ending of WWII. this is where little man was used -
Nagasaki
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over Nagasaki. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 40,000. This caused Japan's surrender. This is where fat boy was used