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Congressonal Medal Of Honor
its the us higset milatry honor, awared for personal acts of valor above and benyod the call of duty , its awreded by the presedent and in the name of the congress and there is 3 versions one for the army ,air force, and navy. -
George S Patton
was a jenral in the us army most known for his comand in the seneth us army and of part of worl war 2 -
Conventional weapons
wepons that realativly of wide use that are no wepons of mass destrustion. they include small arms and light wepons and they use explosvie material based on chemical energy as opposed to nuclar energy . -
navajo
native american goverment territory coving 27,475 miles occupying parts of north eastern arizona . it is the largest area for native americans -
Concentration Camps
these were first used to hold and torture politcal oponets and union organiers . between 1939 and 1942 the camps increased to over 300 empled mostly jews and polical prioners . they also forced labor on the people who where held there it was horrible living conditoions. -
merchant marnes
fleat of us cilivlen owed merchent vessles opperated by the goverment of a privete sector they engage in comerseor transportation of goods and serives in and out of the navigable waters of th us. -
Island Hoping
a term that refers to corssing an ocean of series of shorter jornes between islands insted of a single journy directly across the ocean to the destanation (during world war two) -
tuskegee airmen
1940to 1952.
it was the first african american military avators in the us amerd forces . they were part of the 477th bombaredment group of the us air force! -
Liberty Ships
they were cargo ships built in th us during worl war 2 they were orginally british but adapited by the us because they were cheap and quick to build. its resposnceable for transporting crago and passagers during peace time -
Flying Tigers
dec 20 to july 14 1942.
the first american volneteer group of the chinese air force. it was conposed of polites from the us army nay and marines conmandeed clair lee chennault. their group concisted of 3 fighters quadrents with 20 planes in each one , and they train burna before america went to world war 2 and their mission was to defnend china aganist japensese forces. -
code talkers
1942 to 1945 . they were young men who created secrect comucations on the battle felids of world war 2 . these codes saved many lifes and benifted the americans very much so. -
Bataan Death Marth
it was the forceable transfer by the imperail japanese army about 60 to 80 thousand phillipino and american prisioners of war. it was after of the battle of bataan in the phillipnes in world war 2 . about 25 hunderd to 10 thousand phillipeno and 100 to 650 american prisonrs died! -
Battle of Midway
it was between the 4th and 7th of june in 1942. the mot important naval battle of world war two. the us navy attacking the imperial japenese navy they caused irreparable damage on the japenese fleat. chester w. nimitz was admeral of the us navy and the leading us athourty on subermines.he was cheif of the navy burel of navagation. the us last surviving admeral -
Holocaust
(it started in 1934 and ened in 1944) the genocied of 6 million jews led by aldoth hitlaer in nazi germany. he took the jews to concintration camps killing them in gas chambers and forcing them to work hunderdes dying because starvation and just him over working them . the jews had everything thing takin from them and treated like animals. -
operation overlord
this was the code name for the battle or mormandy. it was the invasion of german occupied western europe. it ended on aug 30 1944 becuase the germans retreated across the seine. -
d - day invasion
it was the first day that the allied troops invaded normandy. by air land and sea.there was over 160000 troops landing in normandy by boat and by plane. it was tuesday june 6 1944 Dwight eisenhower (he was the grenal when they invaded germany and was the 34 pres) was the comander and leader of this. and so was omar brdley (he was feild comander for the us ground forces ) -
Atomic Weapons
wepon of mass distruction whose explovie power devivers form a nuculer reaction. the nucler wepon in which huge amiunts of energy are realised by nuclar fission. 1939 to1945 first one used july 16 -
Potsdam Conference
(july 14 to aug 2)in the home crown prince wilhelm hohentollern in postan occupied germany it was the meeting of the soviet uion united kingdown and united states to dertermine the punnishment for the defeated nazi germany , who had agreed to unconditonal surrendor. -
multiplue front war
it a miltary termanology witch fighting takes plcae on two geograpically sepreate fronts. it usally happends when tow or more seprate forces simultaneosly attack in the hope thet teri opponeit will be fored to split their fighing force to deal with both theats (happend forever)