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Omar Bradley was a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II, rising to the rank of General of the Army -
Douglas MacArthur was an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States, as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army. -
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, was a war of aggression which was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from October 1935 to February 1937. -
On March 12, 1938, German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany. -
Sudetenland was assigned to Germany between 1 October and 10 October 1938 with Sudetenland being a province in northern Czechoslovakia, bordering Germany. Germany wanted to expand its territory to include the Sudetenland and gain control of key military defenses in the area. -
Chester W. Nimitz was a fleet admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet -
Tuskegee Airmen were a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. Group of the United States Army Air Forces. -
The United States permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts. -
Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. -
Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. -
Navajo Code Talkers was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. -
Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war, the prisoners being forced to march despite many dying on the journey -
Flying Tigers were mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan, small group of American aviators however, fought in their first battle in World War II in 1942. -
George S. Patton was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 -
Korematsu v. United States was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II -
The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries and other crimes in World War II. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. -
Vernon Baker was a United States Army first lieutenant who was an infantry company platoon leader during World War II and a paratrooper during the Korean War. -
Audie Murphy was an American soldier, actor, songwriter, and rancher. He was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II.