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Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini created the Fascist Party in Italy in 1919, eventually making himself dictator prior to World War II. He was killed in 1945. -
Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States. As the final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945. Truman was the President who permit the launch of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Hideki Tojo
Soldier and statesman who was prime minister of Japan during most of the Pacific theatre portion of World War II and who was subsequently tried and executed for war crimes. -
George S. Patton
Considered one of the most successful combat generals in U.S history, he was the first officer assigned to the Tank Corps in WWI. During WWII, he helped lead the Allies to victory in the invasion of Sicily, and was instrumental to the liberation of Germany from the Nazis. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He initiated World War II and oversaw fascist policies that resulted in millions of deaths. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961, five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. -
Omar Bradley
Omar Nelson "Brad" Bradley was a United States Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army. -
Vernon Baker
Vernon Baker was a highly decorated soldier and the only living black WWII veteran to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. -
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." -
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Merchant Marines
During World War II the ships and men of the United States merchant marine transported across the oceans of the world the vast quantities of war materiel, supplies, equipment and troops needed to fight and win that war. -
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Flying Tigers
They were a volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, comprised pilots from the United States Army Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps. -
Executive Order 9066
Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. -
Bataan Death March
It was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines. -
Navajo Code Talkers
A small group of Chippewas and Oneidas joined the Thirty-second Infantry Division for the express purpose of radio communications. They used a different language to be able to talk with the soldiers without the Germans and Japaneses understand. *The first group was formed in that date. -
Korematsu v. U.S.
Presidential Executive Order 9066 and congressional statutes gave the military authority to exclude citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas deemed critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage. -
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Battle of Midway
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. -
Office of War Information
Created during World War II to consolidate existing government information services and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad. -
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Manhattan Project
anhattan Project, U.S. government research project that produced the first atomic bombs. -
D-Day invasion
The day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control during World War II. -
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Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. -
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Potsdam Conference
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Atomic Bomb
The atomic bomb is the most powerful weapons which was used in the history. Used in August 1945 in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan after a few weeks after declared unconditional surrender.- Also used in August 9th, 1945 in Nagasaki
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Hiroshima
The first atomic bomb used in world history. The bomb, nicknamed Little Boy exploded in Hiroshima and killed 90,000–166,000 people. -
Nagasaki
The second atomic bomb used in world history. The bomb, nicknamed Fat Man exploded in Nagasaki and killed 39,000–80,000 people.
