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Holocaust
The mass murder of 6 million european jews, homosexuals, gypies, etc. -
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*When does WWII break out in Europe
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Blitzkrieg involved the massing of planes, tanks, and artillery. These forces would break through enemy defenses along a narrow front. Air power prevented the enemy from closing the breach. German forces encircled opposing troops, forcing them to surrender. -
Brunswick shipyard
Brunswick’s harbor was mainly used for trade purposes, like cotton and rice. -
Savannah shipyard
Liberty ship construction, -
Lend-lease program
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-introduces-the-lend-lease-program
The plan was intended to help Britain beat back Hitler’s advance while keeping America only indirectly involved in World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks the U.S navy base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
Carl Vinson
He gave the congress two bills, the first was to expand naval aviation the second one was to speed the naval construction and ease labor restrictions. -
Bell Aircraft
Bell Aircraft was famous for being one of the major manufacturing centers for the B-29s, which would become the United States most formidable bomber aircraft in the later portion of the War -
D-Day
160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
Yalta Conference
Three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. ( FDR, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ) -
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Cold War
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Hitler's Death
commits suicide in his underground shelter. -
Bomb dropped on hiroshima
Th bomb was caled "Little Boy" . It was the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare. shooting a hollow cylinder of enriched uranium -
Bomb dropped on nagasaki
the bomb was called " Fat Man " wide, round shape, nuclear weapon. -
United Nations is formed
This is an worldwide organization to prevent something happening as bad as world war II. -
Richard Rusell
Richard B. Russell Jr.served in public office for fifty years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and U.S. senator. Appointed to the Naval Affairs Committee, and he continued to serve when that committee and the Military Affairs Committee. -
Cold War
U.S v Soviet Union; decaes long supermacy
