WW2 and the Civil Rights

After years of maintaining neutrality, what event pushed the United States into WW2?

• D-Day - The Normandy Invasion against the Germans

• The Battle of the Bulge with the Germans

• The Battle of Midway with the Japanese

• The Bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese

The Lend-Lease Act allowed...

• Realtors to Lend or Lease homes to young American families in the 40s

• Allowed German manufacturers to Lend or Lease weapons to the British in the late 30s

• Allowed the United States to provide weapons and supplies to the British even though they couldn't afford to pay for them

• Allowed the United States to provide weapons and supplies to the Japanese in their efforts to defeat the Russians

Georgia contributed to the war effort in WW2 by

• training soldiers for the war at 15 different military installations

• building nuclear bombs outside of Atlanta

• building submarines in Augusta on the Savannah River

• shipping ammunition down the Chattahoochee River from the Columbus Ammunition factories

Known as the Father of the Two Ocean Navy, this U.S. Representative from the state of Georgia has a nuclear powered aircraft carrier named in his honor.

• Richard B. Russell

• Carl Vinson

• Jesse Jackson

• William B. Hartsfield

This United States Senator and former Georgia governor secured military bases and war manufacturing facilities like the Bell Bomber Plant and Shipbuilding operations in Georgia during WW2.

• Richard B. Russell

• Carl Vinson

• John Lewis

• Andrew Young

Two early to mid 20th Century mayors of Atlanta that guided the city through the civil rights period, grew the Atlanta Airport and transportation systems, and grew the boundaries of the city, but maintained Atlanta as the "City to Busy to Hate," were...

• Richard B. Russell and Carl Vinson

• William B. Hartsfield and Ivan Allen, Jr.

• Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis

• Maynard Jackson and Andrew Young

Ivan Allen Jr. is sometimes called..

• The father of the two ocean navy

• The father of professional sports in Atlanta

• The father of the Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta

• The cause of the Three Governors' Controversy

William B. Hartsfield was a successful Atlanta mayor and is known as the...

• Father of the two ocean navy

• The father of professional sports in Atlanta

• The father of Aviation in Atlanta

• The father of the Marta system in Atlanta

Which of these choices was the MAIN reason for migration to Georgia's urban areas after WW2?

• The droughts of the 1920s

• The boll weevil infestation of the 1920s

• The development of modern farming equipment and technology of the 1940s and 1950s

• The lure of workers to Amazon Fulfilment Warehouses throughout Georgia

An effort on the part of blacks and their supporters to end discrimination, segregation, and disenfranchisement.

• The Rise of the Republican political party

• The Rise of Southern Democrats

• The Civil Rights Movement

• The Bourbon Triumvirate