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Congressional Medal of Honor
Awarded for personal acts of valor above the call of duty and is given to the person by the Pres. -
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Douglas MacArthur
Fought in WWI and was commander of the Allied Forces in the Pacific in WWII -
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George Marshall
American Miltitay leader and Secretary of State, who organized the largerst military expansion in Amurrican histroy. He earned the Silver Star and the Nobel Peace prize. -
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Chester W. Nimitz
Cheif of Naval Operations form December 1945- 1947. -
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George S. Patton
Considered one of the most sucessful combat generals in U.S history. In WWII he helped lead the Allied powers to victory in Silicy. He was also important in the liberation of Germany from the Nazis. -
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Dwight Eisenhower
Appointed U.S. Army Cheif in 1945. He became the first Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and later became the President of the U.S. -
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Omar Bradley
Eisenhower's front-line troubleshooter also known as the "Soldier's General." -
Concentration Camps
Interment camps were the Jews, gypsies and other undesireabes for forced to stay. -
Merchant Marines
Traveled on the Liberty Ships bringing supplies and other needed items to the soldiers. -
The Holocaust
Systematic killing of the Jews and other undesireables. -
Flying Tigers
Former Air Force recruits who chose to fly with the Chinese to defend against Japan. -
Mutltiple Front War
Divided military forcses for fighting. -
Liberty Ships
Way the merchant marines tributed to the war. -
Bataan Death March
Japan forced 76,000 prisoners to march northward to captivity. -
Battle of MIdway
When the Japanese planned to lure the Americans into a trap. -
Island Hopping
U. S. strategy used in the Pacific Theatre. The U.S 'hopped' over the islands were the Japanese were stationed. -
D- Day Invasion
When the Allies invaded the Germans in France. -
Opertation Overlord
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Tuskegee Airmen
Group of black men who fought in the war. They were also known as the Red Tails due to the markings on their planes. -
Navajo Code Talkers
Converted communications into uncommon language so that the other nations couldn't decipher them. -
Potsdam Conference
The meeting oth the Principal Allies in WWII to clarify and implement agreements at the Yalta. -
Atomic Weapons
The Atomic Bomb, which gave Truman the confidence to demand the surrender or suffer destruction of Nagasaki.
