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Richard Russell
Richard Russell was the youngest person to ever be apart of the U.S. Senate. His role during World War 2 was being appointed to the Naval Affairs Committee. He commanded the U.S. Naval committee during WW2. Graduated from UGA with a Bachelor in Law Degree. -
Holocaust
It was the mass murder of 6 million Jews in Europe. Many of the survivors moved to GA. It made Georgians reevaluate their decisions of discriminating other races. Established the GA Commission on the Holocaust to spread awareness. -
The Start of World War 2
The start of WW2 is important to the function of the war because it was the beginning of it all. The Allies declared war on Germany for invading Poland without a declaration of war. This started the second world war in Europe. http://2-world-war.com/when_did_ww2_start.html -
Brunswick Shipyard
The Emergency Shipbuilding Program was announced by President Franklin Roosevelt in January of 1941. Brunswick was constructed to build cargo vessels that would aid Allied forces in Europe. After the U.S. declared war, these cargo vessels, called “Liberty Ships,” were built, and 99 ships, 85 of them Liberty Ships, were built from 1941-1945. They were capable of hauling thousands of tons of cargo across the Atlantic. The company responsible for building the Liberty Ships in Brunswick was J.A. -
Savannah Shipyard
Savannah was the other site in Georgia chosen for Liberty Ship construction. The contract was awarded to Southeastern Shipbuilding Corporation, and construction was done on a Savannah River site just east of the main city. The contract mandated that this port produce 36 ships, but the shipyard workers ended up churning out 88 ships. -
Carl Vinson
He spent 51 years in the House of Representatives. He supproted military matters up until his retirement. He was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom and had a aircraft carrier named after him. "Father of Two Ocean Navy" was his nickname. -
Lend-lease Program
The Lend-lease program was made under which the United States supplied France, Great Britain, the Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, etc. They did this to help aid the war effort in Europe. This was important to the world war becuase it supplied all the Allies with the resources they needed to fight the Axis powers. Its formal name was "An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States". -
Pearl Harbor
This event had one of the greatest impacts on the second world war. Japanese military forces attacked and bombed a base in Hawaii. THis led to the U.S. joining into the war where they fought alongside the Allied Forces. It had many codenames up to it being known as The Battle of Pearl Habror. One being Operation Z. -
Bell Aircraft
It was a fmanufacturing plant. Nearly four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this manufcturing plant boomed and was known for being the producers of the most technically-advanced bomber in the world. it produced nearly 668 bombers that aided the Allies in Europe. 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
Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, 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 history and required extensive planning -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a wartime meeting of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Frankling D. Roosevelt. Throughout the conferernce, the leaders agreed to demand that Germany unconditionally surrender and begin plans for post-war world. Russia also agreed to join in the Asian war effort against Japan, which gave great aid to the U.S. During this conference, they decided to meet in San Francisco where they would talk of creating the United Nations. -
Hitler's Death
Adolf Hitler was the vicious dicator or Germany during the time in its depression and WWII. He rose to power and commanded the execution of millions of Jews. His actions resulted in him shooting himself in his Bunker in Berlin. The name of his bunker was Führerbunker. -
Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day)
This day is commonly celebrated throughout Europe as the day of Nazi Germany's surrender to the Allied forces. This day was the day that German soldiers throughout Europe laid down their arms and surrendered everything to the Soviets. The final cease fires were signed in Berlin and eastern Germany. -
Hiroshima Bombing
The Hiroshima bombing occured when an American B-29 bomber plane, the Enola Gay, dropped the worlds first atomic bomb. This was done of the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Around 80,000 people were killed as a result from the direct contact to the blast, and another 35,000 were injured. The bombing occured at 8:16 am, Japanese time. -
Nagasaki Bombing
Three days following the bombing of Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, Japan. This bomb killed 40,000 people. After this occurence, Japan's emperor announced the surrender in World War 2. These new weapons were remarked as "a new and most cruel bomb" by the Japanese Emperor. Hirohito gave his radio address on August 15, 6 days following the final bombing of Japan. -
The Creation of the United Nations
Representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to create the United Nations Charter. Originally, there were only 50 countries. However, Poland, which was not represented at the conference, later signed the Charter and became the UN's 51st country. It was originally signed on June 26, 1945, but did not fully come into existence until October 24.
