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Omar Bradley
He was a US Army field commander in North Africa and Europe, a General of the Army. He was the most senior commander of US ground troops in Europe from D-Day to the surrender of the Germans after the Battle of Berlin. -
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Benito Mussolini
He was the leader of the Facsist party in Italy during the time of WW2. He was one of the dictators who was with the Axis until they screwed him over. He was outed from his position in 1943, and then murdered in 1945. -
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Harry Truman
33rd President. 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.He didn't even know about the development of the atomic bomb. -
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Hideki Tojo
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. Part of the Axis and America's enemies at the time. -
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George S. Patton
George Patton was an American general in World War Two - and probably one of her most controversial. Patton found fame in the conquest of Sicily which followed on from the success of the North African campaign. It was here that George Patton found fame as a daring and unconventional military commander. Patton had known Dwight Eisenhower for many years and he received support from the Eisenhower throughout the rest of the war. -
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Hitler
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. He's one of the most hated humans in history because of how much destruction to the human race he caused. He was the reason for the Holocaust, for WW2, and for really improving Germany's economy at the time. I guess there's a brightside to everything. -
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Dwight Eisenhower
34th President. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II. He served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had 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. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO.[2] He was the last U.S. President to have been born in the 19th century. -
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Vernon Baker
Vernon Joseph 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. He was an African American so this was a huge accomplishment for this time period. -
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The Holocaust
Beginning when Hitler took office as Chancellor, Jews were first attacked by being forced to wear the Star of David on their chest so they could be easily identified and set apart. They were slowly attacked more and more by being put into ghettos and having their businesses shut down. They were then taken to camps of different types where a majority died. Over 6 million Jews died, but other races were apart of this, such as Gypsies andhandicapped people. -
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Flying Tigers
The 1st AVG of the Chinese Air Force. Nicknamed the Flying Tigers, comprised pilots from the United States Army Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps recruited under presidential authority and commanded by Claire Lee Chennault. 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. -
Bataan Death March
75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps after the U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II. 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100–650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach their destination at Camp O'Donnell -
Battle of Midway
A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor. it gave us a huge advantange in the Pacific front. -
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Office of War Information
The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II to consolidate existing government information services and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad. -
Merchant Marines
The US used merchant mariners to get supplies where they needed it. These ships were not involved in military combat. Although they were sometimes attacked because anyone is fair game during the war. They were a vital part of the war because they delivered key supplies. -
Navajo Code Talkers
The Navajo Code Talkers were a group of Native Americans who served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. Their mission was to send and receive secret coded messages that the enemy could not understand. They used their language to keep messages concealed, and were later given a day to celebrate their acts of honor. Some members even participated in Iwo Jima. -
D-Day
The code name for the first day of a military attack, especially the American and British invasion of German-occupied France during World War II. We stormed the beaches of Normandy and dominated the Germans. It's one of the most awesome days in history for our military. -
Korematsu v US
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. This was brought on by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. We didn't take any chances. -
Exec Order 9066
Executive Order 9066 is a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. Basucally we were allowed to have concentration camps -
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Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference, 1945. The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British 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)
This was the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. This was an uranium gun-type of bomb that killed between 60-80 thousand. People suffered many years after due to the radiation left over. The final death toll was 135,000. -
Atomic Bomb (Fat Boy)
This was the one dropped on Nagasaki. This was a plutionium implosion-type bomb. This killed around 40,000 people. This contributed to the death toll of 135,000 people. -
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
They were both bombed by atomic bombs (Little Boy and Fat Boy). The plane that dropped them was the Enola Gay. The calculated final death toll of the 2 bombings was 135,000. Japan surrendered immidiately after. -
Nuremburg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a 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. They were prosecuted especially for the Holocaust which casued the death of over 6 million people. -
Manhattan Project
One of the cooler parts of WW2. The Manhattan Project 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. They tested the bombs in New Mexico.
