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Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was an American general who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s. -
George Marshall
George Marshall was the Army Chief of staff that coordinated the war effort from Washington, D.C. -
Chester W. Nimitz
Chester was the commander in chief of the US Navay in World War Two -
George S. Patton
George Patton was a American General And a tank commander that led the 3rd Army of the United States in the final assult on Germany -
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower was the commander of the Allied forces in Europe who let the D-Day invasion and later became the 34th President of the United States -
Omar Bradley
Omar was a senior U.S. Army field commander in World War Two and a General of the Army in the United States Army. -
Conventional Weapons
Conventional Weapons are weapons that are widely used and common that are not nuclear. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic killing of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime -
Concentration Camps
Concentration camps were sites of internment during the Holocaust which were liberated by American forces -
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Merchant Marines
Merchant Marines were fleet of civilian owned merchant vessels that utilized the Liberty cargo ships. -
Flying Tigers
The Flying Tigers were former pilots of the U.S. armed services who volunteered to fly with the Chinese Air Force to defend against Japanese aggression -
Liberty Ships
"Libery" catgo ships were used by the Merchant Marines to contribute to the victory in World War Two -
Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen is the was the name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was a March of the Imperal Japanese army's prisoners of war to Camp O'Donnell. Approximatly 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100–650 Americans died -
Navajo Code Talkers
Navajo code talkers were a group that used the pratitice of encryption to convert communication into unknown language so that it could not be broken by the enemy -
Battle of Midway
The Baattle of Midway was the turing point for the Allies in the Pacific in World War Two due to the Japanese loss of four large aircraft carriers -
Multiple Front War
Dividing military forces in order to fight on land in Europe and sea in the Pacific is known as multiple front war. -
D-Day Invasion
The D-Day In vasion was the Allied invasion of Northern France. They landed at Utah, omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches. -
Operation Overlord
Operation overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy which was the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allies -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting that led to the international partitioning of Germany into Four separate zones -
Island hopping
Island hopping is a term that means the crossing of an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands. -
Atomic Bomb
The Atomic bomb was the technology that gave President Truman the confidence to demand an unconditional surrender or suffer utter destruction -
Congressional Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest military honor. In 1990 Congress designated March 25 annually as "National Medal of Honor Day"
