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Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party.Originally a revolutionary Socialist, he forged the paramilitary Fascist movement in 1919 and became prime minister in 1922. Mussolini allied himself with Hitler, relying on the German dictator to prop up his leadership during World War II, but he was killed shortly after the German surrender in Italy in 1945. -
Harry Truman
Harry Truman was born on May 8, 1884 and was the vice president under FDR. After he died, Truman was the 33th president of the US. He was the one that made the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan in the Potsdam Conference and he helped to rebuild Europe after the war. He was against communism and let America into the Korean War. -
Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo was a general in the Japanese Army and was born on Dec. 30, 1884. He fought in WW2 in the army and was named the 40th Prime Minister of Japan from October 17, 1941 to July 22, 1944. -
George S. Patton
George Smith Patton, Jr. was a United States Army general, who commanded the Seventh United States Army, and later the Third United States Army, in the European Theater of World War II. He died in Heidelberg Germany after WW2 in 1945. -
Adolf Hitler
Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889 in Austria. He would be a German dictator and leader of the Nazi-Party in Germany. After WW1 he was strictly against the Treaty of Versailles, especially Article 231. He and his followers built the NSDAP and used Propaganda to make people vote for them. IN WW2 the Nazi's began to take over Europe in 1939 with a new kind of war, called "Blitzkrieg". After the were stopped by the Allies and America in 1945 Hitler killed himself in his bunker April 30, 1945. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower was the 34th president in 1953-61 in the US and served as a general in the US army in WW2. He led the massive invasions on Nazi Germany, including the D-Day Invasion. He also ended the war in Korea in 1953. He was against the use of the use of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 on the Potsdam Conference. -
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Navajo Code Talkers
During WW2 the Code talkers were people, who were taking in a secret language to communicate. With that language the enemies could not understand, what they would say to each other. Mostly the US used it, because they could use their Native American language. They used it over telephone or radio to transfer military codes and messages. -
Vernon Baker
Vernon Baker was born on Dec. 17, 1919 and was raised by his grandparents after he turned 4. He was a military veteran in WW2, and the only livin black American, that received the Medal of Honor for his service. He entered the Army in June, 1941, before the US joined the war. He died in 2010 at an age of 90 years old. -
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The Holocaust
The Holocaust or Soah, was a cultural genocide were over 6 million jews were killed by the nazi regime. I started the time in January 30, 1933 when Hitler came to power and started to spread his belief all over Germany. The real targeting and methodically murdering of the jews began in 1941. Jews were brought into conzentration camps were they had to work to their death or were killed with gas. When the Allied forces finally invaded Germany in 1945 the holocaust ended. -
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Flying Tigers
The Flying Tigers were the 1st volunteers of the Chinese Airforce to fight for the US military. They were very famous for their nose-art in WW2, which are paintings and art on the front of an airplane. The most famous for the Flying Tigers was the shark face. On 4 July 1942 the Flying Tigers were replaced by the 23rd Fighter Group, an American Air Force. -
Executive Order 9066
On February 19, 142 FDR gave the order 9066 to prescribe certain areas as military zones. With this order the US sent Japanese Americans, German Americans and Italian Americans to relocation camps. The reason for that was, that the US feared espionage organization to attack America from those people and the order should keep America protected in case of that possibility. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March is a march as the memorial for the people that were fighting and defending the islands of Luzon, Corregidor and Philippines. On April 9, 1942 when US soldier were surrendered to Japanese forces, they were marched for days in the scorching heat through the Philippine jungles. Those who survived faced war camps and prison. Today people assemble and do the same march on the same route to honor those soldiers and their memorial. -
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Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a project of the US to build an atomic bomb to defeat Japan in the War. It was kept a secret for a long time, so that not even the VP under FDR would know about it, before he became president. To research for this new weapon, over 130,000 people were employed and over 30 cities did the research. They built two kinds of nuclear bombs in WW2. The project ended Dec. 31 1946, but the district would remain until August 1947. -
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway took place 6 months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. America could defeat Japan in one of the most decisive naval battle of WW2. They were able to crash Japan economically with permanent damage on the Japanese navy. A lot of historians see the Battle of Midway as the Pacific Battle. -
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Office of War Information
The Office of War iInformation in the United States was established on June 13, 1942 to spread the Propaganda and information about the war in America, and also in other countries. They used all kinds of media to create communication and news about what is going on in the war, so communities and battlefront could stay in contact. They also had Propaganda overseas to inform against nazism and faschism and communism. -
D-Day Invasion
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. The Allied powers won foot hold in Europe. After the invasion was over the Allied powers had causes of th death of 9,000 soldiers. -
Korematsu v. US
During WW2 the fear of Japanese spy organizations grew to a high in the US and on Oct. 11, 1944 the government argued to send Japanese people into relocation camps to avoid a further possibility and danger of them to fight America from the inside. On DEcember 18, 19444, a wednesday, the order was decided and the Court sided with the government and held that the need to protect against espionage outweighed Korematsu's rights. -
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The Potsdam Conference
The leaders of the winning nations, called "The Big Three", Stalin, Churchill and Truman met in the german city Potsdam. They came to discuss the terms for the end of WW2. In this conference there was als the decision made, that America would use the atomic bomb on Japan to defeat them in war. -
Atomic Bomb
At 8.15 am on August 6, 1945 the US bombed Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, which long was a secret in the US. Around 80,000 people were instantly killed and around 40,000 more people were killed at the second attack on Nagasaki. The bombs were dropped under the order of President Truman. After months around 100,000 more people died by the causes of the radiation poisoning. It remained the only nuclear attack in history. -
Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945 the U.S. was throwing the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It was long kept a secret. The B-29 dropped "Little boy" It had much more effect than the scientist had assumed it would be -
Nagasaki
August 9, 1945 the U.S. dropped the second atomimc bomb over Nagasaki and destroyed a huge area. They were flying B-29 and dropped the "Fat Man" bomb, which later made the Japanese surrender unconditionally. -
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Nuremberg Trials
After WW2 the Allied powers needed to discuss the trials vor the Nazi's in Germany. They came together to discuss those in the German city NUremberg( Nürnberg). A lot of Nazi's and Adolf Hitler killed themselves after they lost WW2 to escape those trials. THey were guilty for crimes against humanity and genocide. The best-known of the Nuremberg trials was the Trial of Major War Criminals, held from November 20, 1945, to October 1, 1946. -
Merchant Marine
The Merchant Marine is the fleet of ships which carries imports and exports during peacetime and becomes a naval auxiliary during wartime to deliver troops and war materiel. Since 1977, the Ready Reserve Fleet (RRF) has taken the brunt of the work previously handled by the National Defense Reserve Fleet. -
Omar Bradley
Omar Bradley was born February 12, 1893 in North America and when he grew up he was a field commander in the US Army in WW2 and was fighting in North America and Europe. He also was the General of the army. He survived WW2 and died on April 8, 1981 in New York.