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Carl Vinson
He had 51 years in the U.S. house of Representatives. He was best known for being the “Father of Two Ocean Navy.” Vinson continued to be involved in military matters all the way up until his retirement for Congress 1964.
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Richard Russel
Richard Russel served from 1933 until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1971. He was governor of Georgia and a U.S. senator, serving in the senate for 38 years. He graduated from University of Georgia. He was one of the youngest people ever elected to the Georgia General Assembly. He also helped the U.S prepare to fight in WWII.
He brought 15 military bases in the state along with other research facilities.
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Holocaust
The systematic mass murder of over 6 million Jews in Europe. Concentration camps were used to imprison, work, and execute Jews, gypsies, homosexual, and political dissidents. Many Holocaust survivors moved to Georgia after the war. The Holocaust also made some Georgians rethink their treatment of minorities in the state. Georgian’s reexamined their racial practices.
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WWII Breaks Out in Europe
Germany invaded Poland and Poland called on its allies. The United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany.
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WWII Timeline
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Auschwitz
Auschwitz was opened in May of 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. It is located in southern Poland, Auschwitz initially served as a detention center for political prisoners. However, it evolved into a network of camps where Jewish people and other perceived enemies of the Nazi state were exterminated, often in gas chambers, or used as slave labor.
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Lend-Lease Program Created
This program authorized the president to transfer arms or ny other defense materials to the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the US. The program permitted the United States to support its war interests without being overextended in battle.
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Pearl Harbor
A suprise attack by Japan on an American naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This was the reason that the US entered the war. The barrage lasted just two hours.
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The United Nations is Formed
On this day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue a declaration, signed by representatives of 26 countries, called the “United Nations.” The signatures of the declaration vowed to create an international postwar peacekeeping organization.
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Savannah and Brunswick Shipyards
The Brunswick and Savannah Shipyards were one of the sixteen ports chosen to build cargo vessels for the Allied forces in Europe. These shipyards constrcuted many cargo vessels nanmed Liberty Ships.
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Bell Aircraft
Bell Aircraft was a major aircraft manufacturor for bombers during WWII. This manufactor was located in Marietta, GA and helped make it a large industrial city. Bell Aircraft also provided many jobs for the GA residents.
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D-Day
This was when the Allies invaded Western Europe in the larges amphibious attack in history. The battle occured on the coast of France's Normandy region. Before D-Day, the Allies made a large campagin to mislead the Germans about the invasion target.
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Yalta Conference
The 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 after the war.
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Hitler's Death
Hitler commited suicide on April 30, 1945 in Berlin, Germany. He died from a gunshot to his right temple.
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Bombing of Hiroshima
During World War 2 an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people.
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Bombing of Nagasaki
Three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
This caused the Japanese Emperor Hirohito to announce Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15.
Fun Fact: When the Emperor surrendered he talked about the bombs new and devastating power.
