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Carl Vinson
Carl Vinson was born in Baldwin County on November 18, 1883.Carl Vinson was 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. -
World war 2 breaks out in eurpoe
Slovakia attacked Poland 1939 on the year of. During 1939 after Germany did not withdraw with French and British demands, France and Britain, declared war on Germany but provided lnot much military support to Poland other than a small French attack into the Saarland. -
Lend-lease
As Nazi Germany began winning victories in Europe, President Franklin Roosevelt tryed to find ways to aid Great Britain while still remaining free of the conflict. Initially constrained by the Neutrality Acts which limited gun sales to "cash and carry" purchases by agressve, Roosevelt declared large amounts of US weapons and ammunition "over produced" and authorized their shipment to Britain in 1940. -
Savannah shipyard
When the Emergency Shipbuilding Program was announced by President Franklin Roosevelt in January of 1941, 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. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor was when Japanese atltacked a US naval base in Hawaii. This event is when America started fighting in war war 2. Pearl Harbor was a sneek atack from Japanese air crafts and US ships. -
United Nations
On January 1, 1942, representatives of 26 nations at war with the Axis powers met in Washington to sign the Declaration of the United Nation. They pledged to use their full resources against the Axis and agreeing not to make a separate peace pact.The UN is still open today and there main goal is world peace. -
Richard Russell
Richard Russell was a geogriga govner he was elected in the year of 1942. He was elected amny times in the house of republacans. -
Bell Aircraft
The Bell Aircraft Corporation was an aircraft manufacturer in the US. They made many types of fighter aircraft for World War II. Bell made most of the bombers to include the B-29 that was built in Marrietta, GA. The most famous for the Bell X-1(the first supersonic aircraft). -
Brunswich shipyard
The first ship was deployed on Marfch 3 ,1943. These ships where know as Liberty Ships. The main use of these ships is where to transver military supplies back and for to our allies in World War 2. most of these ships did not have names to enemys would not attack these ships. -
D-day
Alieds lanched a offencive attack againes Germany whitch statred on the beaches of Normady France. the first day of this attack was June 6th 1944. The invasion was one of the largest water to land military assaults in history and required extensive planning. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference was held from February 4 to 11, 1945. This was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the Alllied powers. they meet to talk about post war reorganization plans. -
Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima was key strategic island in Japan. After many years of fighting the U.S Marines took over the island. This is important because this alowed U.S a closer base of operations closer to there taget (central Japan). -
Hitlers Death
During the time the Alied forses started taking over Berlin. Hitler killed his family and himself on April 30th 1945. This marked the end of Hitlers leadership. -
Holocaust
A major event when hitler send jews in contration camps. He and his men killed millions of jews for no reason. His men where know as Nazis. May 8th 1945 was the day that the holocast officually ended. -
Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945 (Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima a city in Japan. This was the frist atomic bomb droped ever drurring a war time, this was the beging of the end of the war. The bomb was droped by a B-29 bomber created by Bell Aircraft. -
Nagasaki
On Nagaski the second location of the final atomic bomb droped during War War 2. The code name for the bomb was Fat Man the bomb was droped 3 days after the Little Boy (the first bomb). This marked the first time that Japanese surenders in History.
