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Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide of 6 million Jews by Hitler. From 1941 to 1945 millions of Jews were killed in on of the worst genocides ever to occur. Hitler wanted to take over the world. He called it the final solution by exterminating all the Jews in Europe. By the end of the war, 2 out of every 3 European Jews were killed by Hitler and his accomplises. -
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World War II
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World War II started
Germany wanted to rebound back from losing their whole empire from World War I. They needed a new chancellor that could stand up for them, so they elected Hitler in 1933. He called his political party the Naxis. On September 1, 1939 Hitler invaded Poland with 1,000,000 Nazi troops. Britain and France promised to help the Polish if they were attcked, so they gave Germany 3 days to surrender. If they didn't surrender then they would declare war. Hitler ignored it, and war was declared on September -
Savannah Shipyard
their contract told them to build 36 ships, but the shipyard workers ended up churning out 88 ships for the war effort from 1942-1945. This was the other major port for the war effort in Georgia. -
Brinswick Shipyard
The Brunswick shipyard was the main port in Georgia. Throughout the decades before the war, Brunswick’s harbor was mainly used for trade purposes. However, during the war the shipyard built 99 ships and employed 16,000 workers. They were also capable of hauling thousands of tons of cargo across the Atlantic Ocean. Out of their 99 ships, 85 of them were liberty ships. -
Carl Vinson
As the war in Europe became even worse, Carl VInson wrote several bills strengthening the navy and applying aircraft in national defense. 20 months before the Pearl Harbor bombing, Vinson sent two bills through Congress. The first called for expanding naval aviation to 10,000 planes, training 16,000 pilots, and establishing 20 air bases; the second speeded naval construction and eased labor restrictions in the shipbuilding industry. -
Lend- Lease program begins
This was a program from which the United States provided allied nations with food, oil, and other important material. This included warpplanes and warships. They also supplied weaponary. In return, the US was given leases on army and naval bases in Allied territory during the war. It sarted in 1941 and ended in 1945. A total of $659 million dollars was provided. -
Stalkingrad
Four million troops passed the Russian Border. Within a month, 2.5 million Russians had been killed, wounded, or captured. THe Germans were advancing far into Russia. Then winter hit, and the Germans weren't ready. Stalin threw another 2 million Russian soldiers at the Germans. The Germans slowed down and stopped.; THey were 1800 miles from home. -
Pearl Harbor
This was one of the reasons the US joined the war. Hundreds of Japanese planes surronded the American Naval base Pear Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. THe atack lasted 2 hours, and the day after the attack, FDR declared war on Japan. -
Bell Aircraft
It was a facility that made planes. This massive plant would assist in the production and assembly of the most technologically-advanced bomber in the world. It took 54 weeks to build. The facility was in Marietta, Georgia. By the end of the war, the factory had produced 668 bombers and was the state’s single largest private employer during World War II, with more than 28,000 workers. -
Richard Russell
Richard Russell served in the public office for 50 years as a state legislator, governor of Georgia, and US senator. He was known for his efforts to strenghten the national defense and oppose civil rights legislation. During World War II Russell led a special committee of five senators around the world to visit the war theaters and to report on the status of American troops. I put 1943, because that's when he was in the special comittee. -
D-day
It happened during the Battle of Normandy during World War II. 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. It was one of the largest land attacks. It confused the Germans and the prisoners in North France were liberaated. The Germans were defeated. It has sometimes been called the beggining of the end of World War II. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.However, the confernce was very contreversial. -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
This was the first time a Nuclear Weapon was used during a war. This was the first of two bombs to be dropped on Japn. They were dropped so that Japan would surrender the war. The first bomb killed 140,000 people. There was a second bomb dropped in Japan, and that symbolized the end of World War II. -
Hitler's Death
Hitler killed himself with a gun in Berlin, Germany. His wife also committed suicide by taking a cynaide pill. By early 1945, Germany's military situation was on the verge of total collapse. To the Nazi leadership, it was clear that the battle for Berlin would be the final battle of the war. The Germans knew they couldn't win the war. -
Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
This was the bomb dropped on JApan resulting in their surrender in World War II. 60,000 to 80,000 people were killed due to this bomb. It was callled "fat man." The Japanese council didn't surrender after the first bomb on Hiroshima, so they dropped another bomb forcing the Japanese governemtn to end the war. -
United Nations formed
The United Nations was fromed to combat the Axis powers during World War II. 26 countries signed the declaration, and it's still together today. The UN now negotiates and maintains the peace In Europe and the world. This replaced the League of Nations which ineffective.
