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Benito Mussolini
was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. -
Harry Truman
was the 33rd President of the United States. As the final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health. -
Adolf Hitler
was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. -
Vernon Baker
was a United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor, the highest military award given by the United States Government for his valorous actions during World War II -
Holocaust
was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. -
Battle of Midway
Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, Japanese fleet commander, chose to invade a target relatively close to Pearl Harbor to draw out the American fleet, calculating that when the United States began its counterattack, the Japanese would be prepared to crush them. -
Navajo Code Talkers
People in the 20th century who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. The term is now usually associated with the United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages -
Executive order 9066
gave the military broad powers to ban any citizen from a fifty- to sixty-mile-wide coastal area stretching from Washington state to California and extending inland into southern Arizona. -
Flying Tigers
1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, comprised pilots from the United States Army Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps, recruited. -
Bataan Death March
surrendered Filipinos and Americans soon were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula to San Fernando. The men were divided into groups of approximately 100 and what became known as the Bataan Death March typically took each group around five days to complete. -
Merchant Marines
one of the five United States service academies. It is charged with training officers for the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, or the transportation industry. -
Korematsu V US
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order forcing many West Coast Japanese and Japanese Americans into internment camps. -
D-Day invasion
More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
Nuremberg Trials
series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces after World War II most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. -
Potsdam conference
Big 3 Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), 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 -
Atomic Bomb
(Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki on August 9. -
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in human history. -
George S Patton
US Army general, who commanded the Seventh United States Army, and later the Third United States Army, in the European Theater of World War II. -
Hideki Tojo
was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from October 17, 1941 to July 22, 1944. -
Dwight D Eisenhower
was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander. -
Omar Bradley
a United States Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army. -
Manhattan Project
a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.
