organophosphate nerve agent - any of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936; in World War II the Germans tested them in concentration camps but not on the battlefield; Iraq is alleged to have used them against Iran and against the Kurds

metal, metallic element - any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

bauxite - a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst

Kennesaw Mountain - battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776

Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Deep South - the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery

Albany - a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans

Atlanta, capital of Georgia - state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War

Athens - a university town in northeast Georgia

Augusta - a city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah; noted for golf tournaments

Macon - a city in central Georgia southeast of Atlanta

Oxford - a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner

Savannah - a port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river

Chattahoochee, Chattahoochee River - a river rising in northern Georgia and flowing southwest and south to join the Flint River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

Coosa, Coosa River - river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River

Flint River, Flint - a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

Okefenokee Swamp - a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia

Tallapoosa, Tallapoosa River - river that rieses in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River