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Carl Vinson
From the time he entered Congress in 1914, Carl Vinson was an advocate for a strong United States Navy. Known as the “father of the two ocean navy,” Vinson spent most of his political career convincing his fellow congressman on the importance of military in the twentieth century. . He served as chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee. He increased the size of the Navy by 70%. -
Holocaust
The Jews werent affected in Georgia. The Jewish population would grow and thrive tremendously in Atlanta. Steered away from farming by historical circumstances (for example, many of the governments in Europe imposed restrictions on their owning land), Jews across Georgia tended to gravitate toward nonagricultural work. -
Battle of the Atlantic
It was the longest battle of WW2. It lasted to 1945. -
War Breaks out in Europe
Germany invades Poland to get more land. The Polish army was defeated within a month. This made Europe worried.
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Brunswick Shipyard
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. The 16,000 workers at the Brunswick shipyards built 99 ships, 85 of them Liberty Ships, from 1941-1945. They were capable of hauling thousands of tons of cargo across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Lend-Lease Program created
It was a program under which the United States supplied Free France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. This included warships and warplanes, along with other weaponry. They selled it for cheap.
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Pearl Harbor
It was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor..Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories. This attack made the US enter the war.
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Savannah Shipyard
It produced 88 ships. They hired a lot of women and african americans. Savannah was the other site in Georgia chosen for Liberty Ship construction. -
Bell Aircraft
It is a corporation that made a production factory in marrietta. There, the B 29 bombers were made. This helped assist the creation of the B-29 Superfprtress. The factory provided a lot of jobs. -
D-Day
Allied troops planned an attack on the beaches on Normandy. A lot of people died but it wa successful because they had the advantage. They pushed the Nazis out of Normandy. -
Yalta Conference
The Allies realize they are going to win. FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin discuss how they are going to defeat Germany, how they are going to prepare for post-war, and the territories and money. The US got a lot of money. -
Hitler's Death
He committed suicide with his wife by swallowing cyanide. In case the cyanide didn't work, he shot himself. Hitler killed himself due to the increasingly dire situation for Nazi Germany -
Hiroshima
The US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima because they knew that they were going to win and wanted to make a statement. This was the first atomic bomb to ever be revealed. The radiation and stuff affected Japan fro about 30 years. -
Nagasaki
Another atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. It was after Hiroshima. -
United Nations is formed
It was founded to replace the league of nations. It was created in order to stop another conflict like this to happen. World peackeeping organization. -
Richard Russel
He was first a state Representative. He became a governer and then the us senate. During the war, he was erving on the Naval Afairs Comitee.
