WW2 studies

Question 1

Lend Lease Program

Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.

Answer 1

1. The Lend-Lease act allowed the United States to give Allied nations any materials to be paid after the war ended
2. Lend-Lease passed Congress by a vote of 260 to 165. A majority of those opposed to the act were isolationist Republicans
3. Was policy for promoting defense

Question 2

Pearl Harbor

The Japanese attack on Hawaii December 7, 1941

Answer 2

1. It happened in Honolulu
2. The attack on Pearl Harbor lasted for about two hours
3. The Pearl Harbor attack did not destroy the entire American Fleet.

Question 3

Bell Aircraft

Was founded July 10, 1935

Answer 3

1. was the third major aircraft builder to occupy the site.
2. The factory complex was originally built in 1916
3. World War I had been considered the largest airplane factory in the world.

Question 4

Georgias world war 2 impact

1946

Answer 4

1. Ended Great Depression in Georgia
2. 700,000 Georgians served in WWII and nearly 400,000 died
3. Georgian laborers constructed 200 liberty ships

Question 5

The Tuskegee Airmen

Founded in 1941

Answer 5

1. Tuskegee Airmen were the first black military aviators in the U.S. Army
2. Trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama
3. they flew more than 15,000 individual sorties in Europe and North Africa

Question 6

Richard Russell

Senator 1969–1971

Answer 6

1. Was an American politician
2. Was in the Democratic Party
3. Was the 66th governor of Georgia

Question 7

Carl Vinson

Represented Georgia in the House from 1914 to 1965.

Answer 7

1. He was born in 1883
2. His nickname was the swap fox
3. Died in 1981

Question 8

Holocaust

1941—1945

Answer 8

1. Six million Jewish people died
2. 2/3 of the populations
3. It was also known as Shoah

Question 9

1946 Governors Race

Answer 9

1. Won by a Democratic
2. Talmadge died weeks later in mid-December, before his scheduled inauguration in January 1947
3. . Talmadge’s death created the Three Governors controversy in Georgia

Question 10

William B. Hartsfield

His tenure extended from 1937 to 1941 and again from 1942 to 1962

Answer 10

1. Hartsfield became mayor in 1936 and served a total of 23 years
2. He died from a heart attack
3. he was elected to Atlanta’s city council in 1923.

Question 11

Ivan Allen Jr.

Mayor of Atlanta in 1960’s

Answer 11

1. 52nd mayor of Atlanta
2. Born in Atlanta in 1911
3. He was known for social courage

Question 12

Major League Sports

Started doing it in 1871

Answer 12

1. Football came to Atlanta 1966
2. Basketball came in 1946
3. Soccer came in 2014

Question 13

Herman Talmadge

Senator from Georgia 1957-1981

Answer 13

1. He was a Democratic American
2. US Senator from Georgia
3. Was a staunch segregationist

Question 14

One Person, One Vote Concept

Was invoked in a series of cases by Warren Court in the 1960’s

Answer 14

1. Led by Chief Justice Earl Warren in Reynolds
2. By Warren court
3. Was a majority opinion

Question 15

Ellis Arnall

Georgia governor from 1943- 1947

Answer 15

1. Governor of Georgia
2. 69th Governor
3. Helped abolish the poll tax and to reduce voting age to 18