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Harry Truman
He was the was the 33rd President of the United States. Because of him the Allies successfully concluded World War II. He approved the use of atomic weapons against Japan. He intended to force Japan's surrender and spare American lives in a planned invasion. -
Hideki Tojo
He was a general of the imperial Japanese Army. He was also the Prime Minister of Japan. He was responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the war he was arrested and sentenced to death for Japanese war crimes. He was hanged on December 23, 1948. -
George S. Patton
He was a United States Army general that commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of World War II. What he is best known for is his leadership of the Third United States Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy. -
Adolf Hitler
He was the leader of the Nazi party. He was the main reason why we had a world war 2 and the reason why there was a holocaust. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was also a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. He had the responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. -
Omar Bradley
Bradley was an United States Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II. He was also a General in the army. He commanded all of the U.S. ground forces invading Germany from the west. -
Vernon Baker
He was a United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor. It was given by the United States Government for his valorous actions during World War II. He was the only living black American World War II veteran of the seven belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor when it was bestowed upon him by President Bill Clinton in 1997. -
Benito Mussolini
He was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party. He was the Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 until his ousting in 1943, He led a dictatorship but he was a democrat. He was a key figure for the creation of facism. He was an ally to Germany. -
The Holocaust
It was a genocide that killed nearly six million jews by the end of the the time. Non jewish people that were killed brought of the number of people that were killed to eleven million. Adolf Hitler wanted a perfect population. The people targeted were usually non-chatholc, Jews, people with disabilities, people that didn't look like Germans, and non Germans. The people were sent to concentration camps where they worked and were murdered. -
Flying Tigers
The shark-faced nose art of the Flying Tigers remains among the most recognizable image of any individual combat aircraft or combat unit of World War II. -
Executive Order 9066
It was an executive order signed and issued during World War II. It was signed United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It authorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. It helped for the deportation of Japanese Americans, Italian Americans, and German Americans to internment camps -
Bataan Death March
American prisoners of war died before they could reach their destination at Camp O'Donnell. It was a forceablle transfer of Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. -
Battle of Midway
It was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. It was six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. They defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was Japan's first naval defeat since the Battle of Shimonoseki Straits in 1863. -
Merchant Marines
They are responsible for transporting cargo and passengers during peacetime. If there is was to be a war they could be capable of being an auxiliary for the navy. They also don't have have a role in combat. They do have the responsibility to protect cargo carried aboard there ships. -
D-Day invasion
It was the allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. It is the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the invasion of German-occupied Western Europe. It led to the liberation of France from Nazi control, and contributed to an Allied victory in the war. -
Korematsu v. U.S.
It was a case which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. The Court sided with the government ruling that the exclusion order was constitutional. -
Atomic Bomb
The Atomic bombs were dropped on two cities in Japan. HIroshima and Nagasaki. The bombing on Nagasaki killed about 80,000 people. Three days later they dropped another bomb on Nagasaki which killed 40,000 more people. The bombing is the only nuclear attack in world history. Starting in 1942 more than 100,000 scientists of the Manhattan Project had been working on the bomb’s development. -
Potsdam Conference
It was held at Cecilienhof. It is also referred to as the Berlin Conference of the Three Heads of Government of the USSR, USA and UK. Countries that were there were , the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. What the conference covered was the establishment of post-war order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war. -
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
During the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed at least 129,000 people. It is the only nuclear attack in history. -
Nuremberg Trials
They were a series of military tribunals. It held by the Allied forces after World War II. -
Manhattan Project
It was 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. -
Navajo Code Talkers
They are associated with the United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages.
