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George Maershall
George Catlett Marshall Jr. was an American military, statesman and politician. He raised the United States Army when he became Team Leader under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, serving as Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under Truman. -
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Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was an American military, five-star general of the United States Army and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He acted as supreme allied commander in the Pacific Front during World War II. -
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Harry Truman
Faced with the successive crises that precipitated the cold war throughout 1946, he issued in 1947 the so-called Truman Doctrine of "containment" of communism. Marshall Plan promoted, made in front of the Berlin blockade and led to the creation of NATO. -
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George Patton
George Smith Patton, Jr. was a general in the United States Army during World War II. In his 36-year career, he was among the first to advocate armored cars, sending important units of them in North Africa, in the invasion of Sicily and on the European stage. -
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Adolf Hitler
A German politician and leader of the Nazi Party -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
During World War II, he was a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful Invasion of Normandy in 1944–45 from the Western Front.Eisenhower was a military and politician who served as the 34th President of the United States between 1953 and 1961. -
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Omar Bradley
During World War Two, Omar Bradley was the most senior commander of American ground troops in Europe from the time of D-Day (June 1944) to the surrender of the Germans after the Battle of Berlin in May 1945. Omar Bradley developed a close working relationship with Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. -
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Vermon Baker
Was a United States Army officer who received the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II. Vernon Joseph Baker was the first lieutenant in the United States Army, platoon leader of an infantry company during World War II and a paratrooper during the Korean War. -
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Neutrality Acts
To limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies. -
Appeasement
Foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved nation through negotiation in order to prevent war. -
Rationing
Rationing is the governmental allocation of limited resources and consumer goods, an economic figure generally applied during wars, famines or any other national emergency. -
Victory Gardens
Also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II. -
Navajo code talkers
Is the term used to refer to people who communicate using coded languages. It is generally used to name Native Americans who served in the United States Marine Corps and whose main occupation was to transmit secret military messages -
Flying Tigers
An American mercenary air combat group called AVG, which operated in support of the Air Force of the Republic of China, in the Second Sino-Japanese War, in the context of World War II. -
Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military offensive by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941. -
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name given to a group of African-American airmen from the United States who formed at the Tuskegee Institute of Alabama and distinguished themselves during World War II in the 332nd US Army Air Corps combat group. -
Office of War Information
The United States War Information Office was an agency created by the US Government. during World War II to consolidate government information services. -
Executive Order 9066
The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation. In an atmosphere of World War II hysteria, President Roosevelt, encouraged by officials at all levels of the federal government, authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and resident aliens from Japan. -
March of the Death of Bataán
The march of the death of Bataán was a forced march of around 76 000 prisoners of war and Filipino and American civilians who were captured by the Japanese in the Philippines, which occurred in April 1942 during World War II -
Battle of Midway
The battle of Midway was an airborne conflict that was fought between June 4 and 7, 1942 in the Pacific theater during World War II. In it, the American air forces stopped the Japanese attempt to invade the Midway Atoll, where the former had a military base. -
Korematsu v. United States
The practical application was that many Japanese-Americans were forced from their homes and placed in internment camps during World War II. Frank Korematsu, a U.S.-born man of Japanese descent, knowingly defied the order to be relocated and was arrested and convicted. -
Holocaust
A genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps—six million of them Jews. -
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The United States detonates the world's first atomic bomb at a test site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Less than a month later, atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devastation led to Japan's unconditional surrender and brought an end to World War II. -
Nuremberg trials
Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death
