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Why is Atlanta's longest serving mayor, William Berry Hartsfield, known as Atlanta's "father of aviation"?

• He was an accomplished pilot who began Delta airlines.
• He was a colleague of airplane inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright.
• He developed the C5 mass transport airplane for Georgia's Lockheed Aeronautical plant.
• He believed that an airport for Atlanta would be a key to the city's economic prosperity.

What factory was opened in Marietta which created B-29 Bombers for the Allied Powers? 

• Shipyards
• Fieldale
  
• Bell Bomber Plant
• Pearl Harbor

“Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.   The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific."       Franklin D. Roosevelt
    The quote above describes what event?

• Hiroshima
• D-Day
• Pearl Harbor

Why was Franklin Roosevelt popular with Georgia’s citizens?  Select the BEST answer.  

• he helped farmers with the Agricultural Adjustment Act
• The Little White House was the first house with electricity.
• Roosevelt liked Georgia and helped it due to his visits to the Little White House at Warm Springs
• His New Deal programs put many Georgians to work, and helped many people during the Great Depression.

How did Georgia’s military bases help during World War II?       

• they gave jobs to the people of Georgia, which helped its economy
• they trained soldiers to fight in the war
• they housed prisoners of war
• all of the above are correct

How did the Bell Bomber Plant affect Georgia and the United States during WWII?

• planes at this plant were built in Marietta, Georgia and helped the state add people to the workforce, which helped Georgia to get out of the Great Depression
• more people traveled by plane
• It didn't affect Georgia

What was the Holocaust?        

• It was the systematic killing of around 6 million Jews by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis
• It was the imprisonment of 3 million Soviet troops
• It was the segregation of whites and blacks in the American South
• All of the answers are correct

 How did the state of Georgia contribute to the United States during World War II?

• With the various military bases such as Fort Benning and Camp Gordon  
• With the Bell Bomber Plant that built planes.   
• With the shipyards at Savannah and Brunswick
• All of the above are correct

How did World War II pull the state of Georgia out of depression?   

• Men like Carl Vinson and Richard Russell lobbied to get military installations in Georgia
• Industries like the Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta put people to work
• Shipyards in Savannah and Brunswick built ships and put people to work
• All of the above answers are correct

What was built at the Brunswick and Savannah shipyards?         

• Cargo ships for the military
• cruise ships for the military
• Air Force bases
• bombers