Places
What 2 cities in GA built liberty ships during WWII?
Savannah and Brunswick
Who lead Italy during WWII?
Benito Mussolini
What is the exact date that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
What is the new name for Fort Benning?
Fort Moore
Who are the 3 GA signers of the Declaration of Independence?
Lyman Hall, George Walton, Button Gwinnett
Why were liberty ships important during WWII?
Who was the Georgian known as father of the two ocean navy because he supported expanding the U.S. naval fleet?
Carl Vinson
What law allowed the U.S. to send billions of dollars of supplies to the the Allies during WWII?
Lend - Lease Act
What type of airplanes were made at Bell Bomber Plant in GA?
B29 bomber
What court case said that slaves were property and could be taken anywhere and said that blacks (free or slave) were not U.S. citizens?
How did the shipyards and Bell Bomber plant help GA's economy during WWII?
Who was the U.S. president when Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What type of economic activity in Georgia dramatically increased during WWII?
manufacturing
Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain at the end of WWII?
Winston Churchill
Who was the industrialist that coined the phrase New South?
Henry Grady
Where was the Bell Bomber Plant located?
Marietta, GA
What did Richard B. Russell use his government position to bring to Georgia during WW2?
military bases
Name the 2 cities that suffered great damage as a result of atomic bombs being used by the U.S.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
What did Richard Russell say was his greatest accomplishment?
National School Lunch Program
What are the battles from Chattanooga Tennessee to the "heart of the Confederacy" called (during the Civil War)?
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
WWII began on September 1, 1939 when Hitler from Germany invaded what European country?
Poland
Which U.S. president ordered the use of atomic weapons on Japan?
Harry S. Truman
What agency did Richard B. Russell, Jr. bring to Atlanta, GA?
What happened on June 6, 1944?
Who was GA's best known Populist? He created the RFD bill why he was in Congress.
Tom Watson