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Audie Murphy
Audie Leon Murphy was an American soldier, actor, songwriter, and rancher. He was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II. -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression which was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from October 1935 to February 1937. -
German annexation of Austria and Sudetenland invasion of Czechoslovakia
The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and by the end of 1944 extended to all parts of Czechoslovakia. -
Bracero program
An executive order called the Mexican Farm Labor Program established the Bracero Program in 1942 the United States permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts. -
Executive Order 9066
Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners -
Flying Tigers
The First American Volunteer Group of the Republic of China Air Force, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was formed to help oppose the Japanese invasion of China. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. -
Navajo Code Talkers
A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. -
Korematsu v. United States
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214, was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II. -
. George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries and other crimes in World War II. -
tuskegee airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. -
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur was an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States, as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army. -
Chester W. Nimitz
Chester William Nimitz was a fleet admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief -
Vernon Baker
Vernon Joseph Baker was a United States Army first lieutenant who was an infantry company platoon leader during World War II and a paratrooper during the Korean War. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. -
. Omar Bradley
Bradley was a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II, rising to the rank of General of the Army