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Douglas MacArthur
an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States. -
Chester W. Nimitz
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, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II. -
George S. Patton
a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. -
Omar Bradley
a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II. -
Vernon Baker
a United States Army first lieutenant who was an infantry company platoon leader during World War II and a paratrooper during the Korean War. -
Audie Murphy
an American soldier, actor, songwriter, and rancher. -
italian invasion of ethiopia
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. -
Tuskegee Airmen
a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. -
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. -
Navajo Code Talkers
a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. -
Executive Order 9066
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 forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga. -
Bracero Program
a series of laws and diplomatic agreements when the United States signed the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement with Mexico. -
Manhattan Project
a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. -
Korematsu v. U.S
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. -
Nuremberg Trials
a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949.