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Benito Mussolini
Was an Italian politican journalist and leader of the National Facist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. -
Harry Truman
was the 33rd President of the United States. As the final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to his presidency when Roosevelt died after months of declining health. -
Hideki Tojo
was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 40th Prime Minister Japan during most of World War ll. As Prime Minister, he was directly responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, which iniated war between Japan and the United States. -
George S. Patton
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 ll/ -
Adolf Hitler
was an Austrian born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancelllor of Germany and dictaor of Nazi Germany. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five- star general in the United States Army during World War ll and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. -
Omar Bradley
was a United States Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War ll, and a general of the army. Bradley had command of all U.S. ground forces invading Germany from the west. -
Vernon Baker
was a United States Army officer who recieved the Medal of Honor, the highest military award given by the United States Government for his valorous actions during World War ll. -
Flying Tigers
The 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force compromised pilots from the United States Army Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps. The shark faced nose art of the Flying Tigers remains among the most recognizable image of any individual combat aircraft or combat unit of World War II. -
Executive Order 9066
signed and issued during World War ll by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. Eventually, EO 9066 cleared the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans, Italin Americans, and German Americans to internment camps. -
Bataan Death March
was the forccible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000- 80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the 3 month Battle of Bataan in the Philipines during World War ll. -
Navajo Code Talkers
Philip Johnston, a civil engineer for the city of Los Angeles, proposed the use of Navajo to the United States Marine Corps at the beginning of World War ll. The Navajo code was formally developed and modeled on the Joint Army/ Navy Phonetic Alphabet that uses agreed upon English words to represent letters -
Korematsu v. U.S.
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case cocerning the constitutionality of Executive Order of 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into interment camps during World War ll regardless of citizenship. -
Battle of Midway
In the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War ll. The Japanese operation, like the earlier attack on Pearl Harbor, sought to eliminate the United States as a strategic power in the Pacific, thereby giving Japan a free hand in establishing its Greater East Asia Co- Prosperity Sphere. -
Office of War Information
was a United States Government agency created during World War ll o consolidate existing government information services and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad. OWI operated from June 1942 until September 1945. Through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, the OWI was the connection between the battlefront and civilian communities. -
D-Day invasion
were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War ll. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the invasion of German-occupied Western Europe, led to the liberation of France from Nazi control, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war. -
The Holocaust
A genocide in which six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. An additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders are included by some historians bringing the total to approximately eleven million. -
Potsdam Conference
was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilheim Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Seceretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, and later, Clement Atlee. -
Atomic Bomb
The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagaski. The two bombings which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in human history -
Manhattan Project
was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bomb during World War ll. It was led by the United States with support of United Kingdom and Canada. -
Nuremberg Trials
were a series of military tribunals, held by allied forces after World War ll, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nureberg, Germany. -
Merchant Marines
The fleet of U.S. civilian owned merchant vessels operated by either the government or the private sector, that engage in commerce or trnasportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United States.
