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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". -
Richard Russell
Served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S. senator. Russell entered the U.S. Senate in 1933 as the youngest member and a strong supporter of U.S. presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt. Seeing the New York governor as the leader who could end the Great Depression, Russell had detoured from his own campaign to attend the Democratic National Convention and to make a seconding speech for Roosevelt's nomination. -
Bell Aircraft
Bell Aircraft was famous for being one of the major manufacturing centers in Georgia. They made fighter jets and bombs for WWll. The founder was Lawerence Dale Bell. -
WWll Breakout in Europe
World War l began with the German invasion in Poland. After the invasion, Britain and France declared war on Germany 2 days later. U.S. was part of the Allies. -
Savannah Shipyard
Located at the intersection of 3 rivers. The harbour was used as an exportation port for goods. The shipyard was one of sixteen harbours to be choosen to send supplies to allies. -
Brunswick Shipyard
The natural harbor of Brunswick, located 70 miles south of Savannah, had a long maritime history before the outbreak of World War II. Before the war, Brunswick was used mainly for trading. 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. -
Lend-Lease Program
This act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation that would help the U.S.. The plan was intended to help Britain to beat Hitler's advantages. The program also gave medical aid to countries that helped the United States. -
Pearl Harbour
The Battle of Pearl Harbour is when Japan launched a surprise attack on U.S. amry ships in Hawaii. The Japanease destroyed around 20 american ships and 8 battleships. More than 2,000 American soldiers and sailors died. After the attack, America declared war on Japan. -
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 Conference
The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. Stalin also agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian war against Japan, for which he was promised the return of lands lost to Japan in the Russo-Japanese Wa -
Hitler's Death
Hitler was the leader of the Holocaust. He committed suicide with his wife when he was notified that the Russians were near. He wasn't pronounced dead until 1945. -
Bomb Drop on Hiroshima
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War. The bomb knocked out over a million people. -
Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki
On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional surrender. This bomb killed many people. Also spread radiation which caused cancer. -
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. It is currently made up of 193 Member States. The mission and work of the United Nations are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter. -
Holocaust
The mass murder of some 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution."