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Benito Mussolini
Italian tyrant Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) rose to power in the wake of World War I as a main defender of Fascism. Initially a progressive Socialist, he produced the paramilitary Fascist development in 1919 and got to be PM in 1922. Mussolini's military uses in Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Albania made Italy transcendent in the Mediterranean area, however they depleted his military by the late 1930s. Mussolini unified himself with Hitler. -
Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States. As the final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health -
Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from October 17, 1941 to July 22, 1944. -
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George S. Patton
was an United States Army general, who charged the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of World War II, yet is best known for his authority of the Third United States Army in France and Germany emulating the Allied intrusion of Normandy. -
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" 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 II and served as Supreme Commander . -
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Omar Bradley
Omar Nelson Bradley (1893-1981) was one of the towering American military pioneers of the first 50% of the twentieth century. In the wake of serving as an infantry school educator, the West Point graduate assumed responsibility of the Eighty-second and Twenty-eighth Divisions amid World War II. He ordered the Second Corps in the Tunisia and Sicilian fights, and as authority of the First Army he was instrumental to the achievement of the Normandy crusade. -
Omar Bradley
Omar Nelson "Brad" Bradley was an United States Army field commandant in North Africa and Europe amid World War II, and a General of the Army. -
George S. Patton
Instructed at West Point, George S. Patton (1885-1945) started his military profession driving mounted force troops against Mexican strengths and turned into the first officer allotted to the new U.S. Armed force Tank Corps amid World War I. -
Vernon Baker
Vernon Joseph Baker was a United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor, the highest military award given by the United States Government for his valorous actions during World War II. -
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian government official, columnist, and pioneer of the National Fascist Party, managing the nation as Prime Minister from 1922 until his expelling in 1943. -
Navajo Code Talkers
Peter McDonald that served as a Navajo Code Talker during World War II. This film includes a series of interviews with Peter McDonald that cover his life and journey from Tuba City, Arizona to the United States Marine Corps -
Flying Tigers
The 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force in 1941–1942, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, comprised pilots from the United States Army Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps -
Executive Order 9066
Ten weeks after the Japanese besieged Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, approving the evacuation of any or all individuals from military zones "as regarded fundamental or alluring." The military thus characterized the whole West Coast, home to the dominant part of Americans of Japanese lineage or citizenship, as a military zone. By June, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were moved to remote internment camps assembled by the U.S. military. -
Bataan Death March
he day following Japan bombarded the U.S. maritime base at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, the Japanese attack of the Philippines started. Inside a month, the Japanese had caught Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and the American and Filipino guards of Luzon (the island on which Manila is found) were compelled to withdraw to the Bataan Peninsula. For the following three months, the joined U.S.-Filipino armed force held out notwithstanding an absence of maritime and air help. -
Office of War Information
The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II to 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. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was an essential and unequivocal maritime fight in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, just six months after Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance unequivocally crushed an assaulting armada of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo on Midway Atoll, exa -
Merchant Marines
Amid World War II the boats and men of the United States vendor marine transported over the seas of the world the immense amounts of war materiel, supplies, gear and troops expected to battle and win that war. The men of the U.S. dealer marine were non military personnel volunteers who in any case passed on relatively in numbers that matched or surpassed any extension of the uniformed military. Like the U.S. War fleet Armed Guard with whom they cruised, the unsung men of the U.S. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. -
Korematsu v. U.S.
Right on time in World War II, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, conceding the U.S. military the ability to boycott a huge number of American subjects of Japanese parentage from regions regarded discriminating to household security. Immediately practicing the force so presented, the military then issued a request banning all persons of Japanese heritage, both outsider and non-outsider" from an assigned waterfront region extending from Washington D.C. -
The Holocaust
The expression "Holocaust," from the Greek words "holos" (entire) and "kaustos" (smoldered), was truly used to portray a conciliatory offering copied on a sacrificial table. Since 1945, the expression has tackled another and awful significance: the mass homicide of nearly 6 million European Jews (and individuals from some other abused gatherings, for example, Gypsies and gay people) by the German Nazi administration amid the Second World War. -
Potsdam Conference
Held close Berlin, the Potsdam Conference (July 17-August 2, 1945) was the final one of the World War II gatherings held by the "Huge Three" heads of state. Emphasizing American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (and his successor, Clement Attlee) and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, the discussions made a Council of Foreign Ministers and a focal Allied Control Council. organization of Germany. -
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Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference, held close Berlin, July 17-August 2, 1945, was the final one of the Big Three gatherings amid World War II. It was gone to by Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, the new American president, Harry S. Truman, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain (supplanted on July 28 by his successor, Clement Attlee). -
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
In August 1945, amid the last phase of the Second World War, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese urban communities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which slaughtered no less than 129,000 individuals, remain the main utilization of atomic weapons for fighting in history -
Atomic Bomb
At pretty nearly 8.15am on 6 August 1945 a US B-29 plane dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, right away murdering around 80,000 individuals. After three days, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, bringing on the passings of 40,000 more. The dropping of the bombs, which happened by official request of US President Harry Truman, remains the main atomic assault ever. In the months taking after the assault, approximately 100,000 more individuals passed on moderate. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. -
D-Day invasion
On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which, “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end, the Allies gained a foot-hold in Continental Europe. The cost in lives on D-Day was high. More than 9,000 Allied Sold
