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Benito Mussolini
Mussolini created the Fascist Party in Italy in 1919, eventually making himself dictator prior to World War 2. He was killed in 1945 -
Harry Truman
Sworn in as the 33rd president after Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sudden death, Harry S. Truman presided over the end of WWII and dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. -
Hideki Tojo
Allied propagandists one of the most commonly caricatured members of Japan’s military dictatorship throughout the Pacific war. -
George S Patton
General George Patton led the Third Army in a very successful sweep across france during World War 2 in 1944. He was skilled at tank warfare. -
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. -
Omar Bradley
A United States Amry field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War 2. -
Vernon Baker
The only living african american WWII veteran to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor. -
The Holocaust
The final solution was based on the Nazi belief that Aryans were a superior people & that their strength & racial purity must be preserved. -
Merchant Marines
The fleet of ships which carries imports and exports during peacetime and becomes a naval auxiliary during wartime to deliver troops and war materiel. -
Navajo Code Talkers
A code based on the Navajo language. -
Korematsu v. U.S.
President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, granting the U.S. military the power to ban tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas deemed critical to domestic security. -
Executive Order 9066
World War II hysteria, President Roosevelt, encouraged by officials at all levels of the federal government, authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan. -
Bataan Death March
The approximately 75,000 philipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps. -
Manhattan Project
Development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. -
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
To attract U.S. citizens to jobs in support of the war effort, the government created the Office of War Information -
D-day Invation
156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
As supreme commander of Allied forces in Western Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day -
Nuremberg Trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany
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Atomic Bomb
A bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity. -
Potsdam Conference
various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations. -
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Flying Tigers
The nickname of U.S. fighter pilots, the American Volunteer Group, who fought against the Japanese in China during World War II.
