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Navajo Code Talkers
Code talkers are people in the 20th century who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. -
Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II. -
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. -
Executive Order 9066
Issued by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of a major agency or department found within the Executive branch of government. -
Flying Tigers
Comprised pilots from the United States Army Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps recruited under presidential authority and commanded by Claire Lee Chennault. -
Bataan Death March
A time when thousands of people died and they were marched to death. -
Korematsu V. U.S
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944),[1] was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the Korematsu v. United States was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. -
Battle of Midway
Nimitz placed available U.S. carriers in position to surprise the Japanese moving up for their preparatory air strikes on Midway Island itself. -
Office of War Information
The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II to consolidate existing government information services and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. -
Merchant Marines
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. -
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. -
Harry Truman
The final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. -
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. -
George S. Patton
Commanded the Seventh United States Army, and later the Third United States Army, in the European Theater of World War II. -
The Holocaust
Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews by the German Nazi regime during the Second World War. -
Vernon Baker
Vernon Joseph Baker was a United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor, the highest military award given by the United States Government for his valorous actions during World War II. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. -
Atomic Bomb
atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by a plutonium implosion-type bomb on the city of Nagasaki on August 9. -
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949.
