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carl vinson
he was a strong advocate for the navy during WWII. he stregthened the navy. he made the government mass produce aircrafts, bases, and pilots -
holocaust
the holocaust was when hitler balmed all the jewish people for the problems in this world. germans started believing hitlers bandwagon and became nazis and put jews in concentration camps. this was a horrible genocide that everyone will remember. -
Begin of War for Europe
Germany invaded Poland on september 1st 1939. Germany wanted to make their country greater, so they made alliances and tried to take over Poland. Two days after the attack, Britain and France declared war on Germany. -
Lend-lease program
This bill started March 11th 1941. it was signed by president Roosevelt. it allowed the U.S. to trade and lend weapons to their allies. this made fighting with the axis powers easier. -
Pearl Harbor
This was a tragic day for u.s.. early morning on december 7th 1941, japanese planes attacked a u.s. naval base at pearl harbor near honolulu, hawaii. they destroyed 20 vessels and 300 planes. over 2000 americans died and 1000 more were wounded. this was the event that caused u.s.a. to join the war as an allie power. -
brunswick shipyard
a shipyard for the US to help one of their allies, britain. the ship yard was to build liberty ships which were big cargo ships to carry more. each ship took about 89 days to create. -
savannah shipyard
it was just like the brunswick shipyard. they were only supposed to make 33 but ended up making 88 ships for the war.they hired women and african americans aswell. -
UN formed
president roosevelt gave a name to a gathering of the representatives of 26 nations. this was when they said they would keep fighting against axis powers. a year later 24 more countries joined. -
d-day
d day was a giant push between the allied powers at the beaches of normandy of france. the area was controlled by germany and they were assualting it. the allied powers won and gave them hope to continue fighting. -
yalta confrence
the yalta conference was a meeting between the 3 leaders. the leaders were stalin churchill and roosevelt. they all agreed about germenies surrender. -
bell bomber
the bell bomber was a plane created by the bell aircraft, a company in georgia. they made the b-29, the most tech advanced airplane in the war. it gave georgians more jobs. -
hitlers death
hiter commited suicide in his bunker after ww2. the bunker was underground in berlin. he rarely left it. he ate cyanide and shot himself -
hiroshima bombing
the hiroshima bomb dropping was when america dropped its first atomic bomb on japan trying to make them surrender the war. 80,000 people died. this was the product of a manhatten project. last major battle of war -
nagasaki
this was the second bombing, following hiroshima.they used atomic splitting. this bombs name was fat man. it was more devasting than hiroshima -
vietnam war
this was after ww2 when communist vietnam decided to attack south korea. south korea had a treaty with the usa. so usa had to help koreans. -
richard russel
richard russel was the govenor of ga during ww2. he served in senate for 38 years and helped usa get throuigh ww2. he brought 15 military bases to ga along with research facilities.
