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Georgia’s War Effort
Axis Powers
 Germany (Leader: Adolph Hitler)
 Italy (Leader: Benito Mussolini)
 Japan (Leader: Hideki Tojo)
Allied Powers (WINNERS!!)
 Great Britain (Leader: Winston Churchill)
 United States (Leader: FDR)
 Soviet Union (also known as Russia) (Leader: Joseph Stalin)
World Leaders
1. Adolf Hitler
World Leaders
2. Benito Mussolini
World Leaders
3. Joseph Stalin
World Leaders
4. Hideki Tojo
World Leaders
5. Emperor Hirohito
World Leaders Revisited
6. Winston Churchill
World Leaders
7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Holocaust
 Means “sacrifice by fire” is the term used to refer
to the murder of over 6 million Jews and others
in Nazi concentration camps.
 Auschwitz, Buckenwald, Dachau, Treblinka,
Bergen-Belsen infamous concentration camps
where Jews and others were executed
Nazis Invade Poland
• September 1, 1939
Aggression in Asia and Africa
FDR Intervenes…but not
officially
1. Destroyers for
Bases
2. Lend-Lease
Act
3. Tracking UBoats
Before U.S. entered the war their
contributions consisted of…
 Providing Lend-Lease aid to Great Britain and
Soviet Union (Russia)
 Lend-Lease Act: U.S. sent billions of dollars worth of
supplies to Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, & China-in
return these countries gave the U.S. base rights in these
countries military bases.
 Refused to export planes, plane parts, & sell
gasoline to Japan.
 U.S. seized Japanese property in U.S
Pearl Harbor
 “The day that will live in infamy”
 This day led U.S. into WWII
A Day That Will Live in Infamy
• December 7, 1941
• An effort headed by Hideki Tojo and
supported by Hirohito, Japan surprise
attacked the Pearl Harbor naval base in
Hawaii.
• 2400+ killed, 1200+ wounded, 4
battleships sunk, 3 cruisers, 3
destroyers, 188 aircrafts
• Goal of Japanese?
War Mobilization
• FDR declares war on December 8, 1941
• Before Pearl Harbor, FDR had already
approved the first peace time draft.
Mobilization efforts now move forward
full throttle.
• Needs according to FDR
– 185,000 airplanes
– 120,000 tanks
– Draft (Army reached a total of 1.5 million
by Pacific Theatre).
Stalingrad, 1942-1943
D-Day: June 6, 1944
Military Bases in Georgia
•Fort Benning in Columbus
•Camp Gordon in Augusta
•Fort Stewart and Hunter Air Field in
Savannah
•Flew blimps along the southern Atlantic
coast in search of German subs
Taken at the Brunswick shipyard
POW Camps
•Many military bases in GA housed thousands of
German, Austrian, and Italian soldiers
•Over 4,000 stationed in GA
•Some prisoners when released chose to stay in
Georgia
•Many were scared of what they would find when
returning home
American Soldiers identify new German POWs in
Europe
German POWs stop for a picture while working on a local farm in Georgia
Agriculture
•Farmers planted peanuts, grew vegetables,
and raised livestock
•Most farmers saw a huge increased income
•Victory Gardens
Bell Aircraft Company
•Located in Marietta, GA
•Assembled b-29 Bombers
•Finished 668 plane
•Employed thousands of
Georgian workers
Bell Aircraft finished planes being inpsected
Home front
•Rationed food items
•Donated blood
•Students made candles
for Great Britain
•Planted victory
gardens
Shipyards
•Built Liberty Ships in SAVANNAH and
BRUNSWICK
•Simple cargo ships, almost 200 ships in all
•Many workers were women
Women Contributions:
 Serve as nurses & clerks
 Serve as test pilots
 Helped build B-29 Bombers
Carl Vinson
 “Father of the two-ocean navy”
 Served 25 consecutive terms in the U.S. House of
Representatives from 1914-1965
 Helped to expand the U.S. Navy during this time period
by creating bills that built new Navy bases & ship
building factories.
Richard B. Russell
 Served in the U.S. Senate for 38 years
 Helped improve the military preparedness of the United
States by increasing the military budget & helping to create
additional military bases in GA
FDR-Warm Springs, Georgia
 Mineral waters of Warm Springs helped his polio
 FDR died of a major stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia
 Vice President Harry Truman became president
The War in the Pacific
 1942: Japan expanded its territory throughout
the Asian Pacific region
 1945: Allied forces began to retake Japanese
controlled lands
 Japan refused to surrender
Finally ending WWII…
 President Truman authorized the use of atomic
bombs to force Japan’s surrender
 Enola Gay: plane that dropped first atomic bomb on
Hiroshima, Japan
 Japan surrendered after a second atomic bomb
dropped on Nagasaki
 Over 50 million people died in the war