USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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

(A) ** 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

(B) more people traveled by plane

(C) It didn’t affect Georgia

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The manufacturing plant turned rural Cobb County into a thriving industrial region in Georgia. Marietta, Georgia began to experience a lot of economic and population growth because of Bell Aircraft as thousands of jobs were created. It also proved that the South could be an industrial region of America.

Concept note-2: -This aircraft manufacturing plant transformed Marietta into a major industrial center of the State. Marietta had a prewar population of about 8, 000 while Cobb County had approximately 38, 000 citizens altogether and relied upon a cotton economy that was characteristic of much of the South at the beginning of the 1940s.

Concept note-3: -The Bell Bomber plant in Marietta, Georgia was a facility built for the production of B-29 aircraft during World War II. The construction of the plant was funded by the federal government and designed by Robert & Company of Atlanta, Georgia.

Concept note-4: -World War II ended the Great Depression in Georgia, transformed the state’s economy, and accelerated urbanization and changes in race relations. Its impact was felt long after President Harry Truman declared an official end to World War II on December 31, 1946, Today in Georgia History.