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The Holocaust to Present Day
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Concentration Camps
A place where large groups of targeted people are imprisoned in a small area with poor facilities These are used sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. -
Congressional Medal of Honor
This is known as the highest U.S. military decoration, which is awarded for bravery and valor in action "above and beyond the call of duty". -
Conventional Weapons
Converntional weapons are weapons that are in commonly used, however they are not weapons of mass destruction or nuclear powered weapons. They are also known as conventional arms. -
Atomic Weapons
An atomic weapon is the equivalent of a nuclear weapon and is a weapon of mass destruction whose power to explode with such a great forcecomes from a nuclear reaction. -
Liberty Ships
A liberty ship was a slow moving cargo ship built in WW2 for the US Merchant Marines that carried up to 11,000 tons. -
Flying Tigers
This was the first American Volunteer Group to take to the skies in World War II. They were made up of Navy, Marine, and Army recruits as well as civilians who worked from the ground. -
Island Hopping
Island hopping was an American strategy in the Pacific Ocean battlefronts during World War II. It involved movement, similar to that of a game of leap frog, of American forces from one strategic island to the next until the American forces were in control of the Pacific and prepared to invade Japan. -
Merchant Marines
Merchant marines make of the crew of a merchant, or a trade, ship that took goods between foreign countires or met up with other merchants to trade and deals goods such as ammunition and medical supplies. -
The Bataan Death March
This was a foc=rced transfer of the Phillipine and American POWs after the battles in Bataan. They were forced to march from Bataan to Camp O'Donnell, a total distance of approximately 60 miles. -
The Battle of Midway
This was a mainly naval battle during World War II. During the battle American planes based on land and on carriers, allowing them to effectively ambush adn defeat a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands. -
Navajo Code Talkers
The Navajo Code Talkers were a group that used the practice of encryption to convert communication into an unknown language so that it is unable to be decoded by the enemy. -
Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African American pilots who fought in World War II. -
D-Day Invasion
On this day, June 6th of 1944, the Allied forces began their attack on Europe. Specifically, in Normandy, France during World War Two. -
Operation Overlord
"Operation Overlord" was the code name used for the Battle of Normandy. See "D-Day Invasion". -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide put forth by Adolf Hitler. The target of the mass murder was Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and those who openly disagreed with Hitler's methods who were under the German Nazi regime. -
Multiple Front War
A multiple front war is a war or battle where one party of the battle is abushed by the other party at several angles and locations. -
Potsdam Conference
This was a meeting held in Potsdam where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill created plans and blueprints for the administration and distribution of Germany and Poland after World War II ended. -
George S. Patton
Patton was ordered to lead the U.S. 7th Army in the invasion of Sicily and was the head of the 3rd Army in the summer of 1944. Patton's forces played a key role in defeating the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge. -
Dwight Eishenhower
Eisenhower was a United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Also, he was the 34th President of the United States. -
George Marshall
Marshall was a U.S. general who organized the European Recovery Program -
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur was a United States general who commanded Allied forces in th South Pacific during World War II. He also was one of the people who accepted the surrender of Japan, -
Chester W. Nimitz
Due to the attack on Pearl Harbor this naval officer was ordered to lead the Pacific Fleet which led to victory across th ePacific in August of 1945. -
Omar Bradley
Bradley was a U.S. general who in fact played a rather important role in the Allie's victory in World War II becaus he commanded the American involvement in the D-Day invasion, which ultimately liberated Paris, France from the German occupied forces.
