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Congressional Medal of Honor
During this conflict 464 United States military personnel received the Medal of Honor, 266 of them posthumously. Seventeen of these were Japanese-Americans fighting in both Europe and the Pacific. The Medal of Honor was created during the American Civil War and is the highest military decoration presented by the United States government to a member of its armed forces -
Holocaust
the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators -
Concentration camps
a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. first cnazi concentration camp erected in feburary 1933 -
George Marshall
was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. -
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multiple front war
fighting takes place on two geographically separate fronts The Multiple Front War began in 1941-1943. It divided military forces in order to fight on land in Europe and sea/land in the Pacific. -
George S. Patton
. He was a brash American General and brilliant tank commander that led the third Army of U.S. in final assault on Germany. -
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee Airmen s the popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. Formally, they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Corps. -
Douglas MacArthur
U.S. Army as a major general, and named him commander of U.S. Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE). MacArthur was promoted to lieutenant general the following day, and then to general on 20 December -
Liberty Ships
Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II used by merchant marines The first Ocean-class ship, SS Ocean Vanguard, was launched on 16 August 1941 -
Merchant Marines
the fleet of U.S. civilian-owned merchant vessels, operated by either the government or the private sector, that engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United States used liberty cargo ships -
Chester W. Nimitz
Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II. -
Flying Tigers
The 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Chinese Air Force The group first saw combat on 20 December 1941, 12 days after Pearl Harbor helped defend against japanese aggression -
Bataan death march
forced march of 90,000 to 100,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in the early stages of World War II -
Navajo Code talkers
Code talkers transmitted these messages over military telephone or radio communications nets using formal or informally developed codes built upon their native languages. Their service improved communications in terms of speed of encryption at both ends in front line operations during World War II. -
Battle of Midway
he U.S. Pacific Fleet surprised the Japanese forces, sinking the four Japanese carriers, that had attacked Pearl Harbor only six months before, while only losing of one carrier. After Midway, the Americans and their Allies took the offensive in the Pacific. -
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Battle of Midway
he U.S. Pacific Fleet surprised the Japanese forces, sinking the four Japanese carriers, that had attacked Pearl Harbor only six months before, while only losing of one carrier. After Midway, the Americans and their Allies took the offensive in the Pacific. -
Omar Bradley
was a senior U.S. Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army in the United States Army. From the Normandy landings through the end of the war in Europe, Bradley had command of all U.S. ground forces invading Germany from the west -
Island Hopping
was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II his strategy began to be implemented in late 1943 in Operation Cartwhee -
D-Day Invasion
the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord -
Operation Overlord
was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces
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Potsdam Conference
The Big Three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman--met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. divided Germany in 4 seperate zones -
atomic weapons
a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing around 80,000 people. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, causing the deaths of 40,000 more. first sign of atomic weapons shown to the world, on president truman -
Dwight Eisenhower
was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe
