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Concentration Camps
From the beginning of the Third Reich concentration camps were founded, initially as places of incarceration. Though the death rate in the concentration camps was high, with a mortality rate of 50%, they were not designed to be killing centres. (By 1942, six large extermination camps had been established in Nazi-occupied Poland, which were built solely for mass killings.) -
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Holocaust
The Holocaust was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, throughout German-occupied territory. -
Flying Tigers
These were American soldiers. The group consisted of three fighter squadrons with about 20 aircraft each. It trained in Burma before the American entry into World War II with the mission of defending China against Japanese forces. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was the 34th president of the United States, but was previously a 5 star commander in World War 2. He headed the first sucessful invsion of France and Germany. -
Liberty Ships
Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II. Though British in conception, they were adapted by the U.S. as they were cheap and quick to build, and came to symbolize U.S. wartime industrial output. -
Douglas MacArthur
Roosevelt federalized the Philippine Army, recalled MacArthur to active duty in the U.S. Army as a major general, and named him commander of US Army Forces in the Far East. -
Chester W. Nimitz
On this day he became the Commander in Chief, US Pacific fleet. He was then elected CIC of the JSC. He was the only surving admiral -
George S. Patton
Patton commanded some of the the first U.S. troops into the war during the North African Campaign in 1942, where he later established himself as an effective commander through his rapid rehabilitation -
Geoge Marshall
was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II -
Dataan Death March
the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 60-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. -
Atomic Weapons
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter -
Navajo Code Talkers
Phillip Johnston proposed the use of Navajo during WW2 because it was such a complex language. It was mutual inelligible. -
Battle of Midway
was the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. -
Island Hopping
Island hopping is a term that refers to the means of crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly across the ocean to the destination. -
D-Day Invasion
This was a battle that the Allies won, in Normandy. The Allies aquired 5 beachheads as a result of the invasion. -
Omar Bradley
Bradley moved to London as commander in chief of the American ground forces preparing to invade France in 1944. For D-Day, Bradley was chosen to command the US First Army, which alongside the British Second Army made up General Montgomery's 21st Army Group.
