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Douglas MacArthur
An American military leader during WW2. Served as General of the Army for the United States and field Marshal to the Philippine Army. Chief Staff of the United States Army. -
Chester W. Nimitz
A fleet admiral of the United States Navy during WW2. Commander in Chief of the US Pacific Fleet, Pacific Ocean Areas, Allied air, land, and sea forces. -
George S. Patton
United State general during WW2 that commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater and third United States Army in France and Germany. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th President of the United States, was a Supreme Commander of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force of Europe during WW2 -
Omar Bradley
Senior Officer in the United States during WW2. Rise up to a general of the Army. First Chairman of the Join Chiefs of Staff. -
Vernon Baker
First United States Army's lieutenant who was an infantry company platoon leader during WW2. was also a paratrooper in the Korean War -
Audie Murphy
American soldier during WW2 and was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers at the time. Received all military combat award for valor from the U.S. Army and event to go on to earn other awards from the French and Belgian for heroism. -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
A war fought between Italy and Euthopia -
German annexation of Austria and Sudetenland invasion of Czechoslovakia
The occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany after the annexation of Sudetenland -
Tuskegee Airmen
A group of African American military pilots/airmen that fought during WW2 -
Flying Tigers
First American volunteer group of the Republic of China Air Force to help against the Japanese invasion of China -
Bracero Program
Involved United States and Mexico, more specifically the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement where multiple laws and diplomatic agreements. -
Navajo Code Talkers
African Americans who were employed into the US Army to help with sending and receiving encrypted messages during WW2. -
Executive Order 9066
Issued by the president at the time, Franklin Roosevelt, authorized the evacuation of people who were deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast and they are to be relocated further inland. -
Bataan Death March
the forced transfer of American and Filipino prisoner of war by the Imperial Japanese Army -
Manhattan Project
A project revolving the research and development of the first nuclear weapons. -
Korematsu v. U.S.
A decision in the Supreme Court during WW2 that excluded Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military area -
Nuremberg Trials
Held by the allies after WW2, a trial held against the defeated Nazi Germany for their war crimes