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Holocaust
The holocaust was an uprising of the nazi party where six million jews were killed. The leader of the Nazi Party was Adolf Hitler. People were sent to concentration camps and were either murdered or worked to death. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/history.html -
WWII Begins
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. http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/world-war-ii-overview -
Savannah 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. https://ss8h9.wordpress.com/coast/brunswick-and-savannah-shipyards/ -
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. https://ss8h9.wordpress.com/coast/brunswick-and-savannah-shipyards/ -
Lend-Lease Program
This was an act to further protect the United States. They supplied France, and Great Britain with food and oil. It allowed President Roosevelt to authorize the transfer of military materials. http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/industrialmobilization/p/lend-lease-act.htm -
Carl Vinson
He expanded the naval avaition to 10,000 planes, training 16,000 pilots, through congress. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/carl-vinson-1883-1981 -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack planes bombed Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. Over 2,000 American soldiers and sailors died in the attack and 1,000 were wounded. The day after the attack, President Roosevelt declared war on Japan, entering World War 2. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor -
Bell Aircraft
This was a manufacturing company in Marietta, Georgia that was known for building the B-29s. By the end of the war the corporation would have created 668 bombers. The company had over 28,000 workers. https://ss8h9.wordpress.com/regions-of-georgia/piedmont/bell-aircraft/ -
D-Day
This was the invasion of normandy, france. More than 160,000 allied troops landed to fight the Nazis. Over 9,000 allied soldiers were killed or wounded. http://www.army.mil/d-day/ -
Yalta Conference
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. http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/yalta-conference -
Hitler's Death
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-death.htm
Hitler killed himself with his wife after frustration. He killed himself with a gunshot and his wife by drinking poison. His death was announced on May 1, 1945. -
United Nations Formed
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.
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Bomb Dropped on 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. It was the uprising of the Cold War. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima -
Bomb Dropped on 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. -
Richard Russell
Richard Russell led a committee of senators around the world to visit the war theaters and report on the status of the American troops. He didn't want to put america as the world's "policeman." He strongly supported military buildup. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/richard-b-russell-jr-1897-1971