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Richard Russell
an American politician from Georgia. A member of the Democratic Party, he briefly served as speaker of the Georgia house, and as Governor of Georgia (1931–33) before serving in the United States Senate for almost 40 years, from 1933 until his death from emphysema in Washington, D.C. -
When WWll started in Europe
In 1939, the Nazis attacked poland. Poland is bordering Germany which makes is an easy for the Germans to attach. The main reason for attacking Poland was that Germany wanted to expand their land. -
Brunswick shipyard
When the Emergency Shipbuilding Program was announced by President Franklin Roosevelt in January of 1941, Brunswick was one of sixteen ports chosen to construct cargo vessels that would aid Allied forces in Europe. After the U.S. declared war, these cargo vessels, called “Liberty Ships,” were churned out at incredible speed. -
Lend Lease Program
The Land Lease Program was created to support other countries that were under attack. This was created by the US. The US would supply countries with food, drink, and oil. -
Pearl Harbor
On December 7th, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, hundreds of Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor and the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. The devastating surprise attack killed 2,403 and wounded over 1,000. It marked USA’s entrance into WWII. -
Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was a Democrat and served for more than 50 years in the United States House of Representatives. He was known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy". -
Bell Bomber
The Bell Bomber plant transformed Marietta—and helped the Allies win World War II. On this day in 1942, construction began on the Bell Aircraft Corporation plant that built more than 600 B-29s during the war. -
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 -
D-Day
This was a battle in WW||. It was also the largest sea Bourne battle in history. -
Yelta Conference
The Yelta Conference was a meeting with the British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945. Just as World War II was winding down. -
Hitler's death
Hitler died in Berlin Germany. He committed suicide. That also ended WW||. -
My great grandma Magret
She was in the holocaust. Also she was one of the few who got away. Unfortunately later she got malaria in 2001 and passed away. SORRY, NO PICTURE AVAILABLE -
Holocaust
The holocaust was a genocide on most Jews. The Nazis were the cause of it. This was their prison. -
Bomb dropped on Hiroshime
the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people. -
Bomb dropped in Nagasaki
A Second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender. The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference's demand for unconditional surrender. -
When the United Nations was formed
The UN is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict.
