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Benito Mussolini
Created the Fascist Party in Italy in 1919, eventually making himself dictator before WWII. He was killed in 1945. -
Harry Truman
Was the 33rd president of the U.S. As the final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945.n Was the President who permit the launch of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Hideki Tojo
Soldier and statesman who was prime minister of Japan during most of the Pacific portion of WWII and who was subsequently tried and executed for war crimes. -
George S. Patton
Considered one of the most successful combat generals in U.S. history, he was the first officer assigned to the Tank Corps in WWI. During WWII, he helped lead the Allies to victory in the invasion of Sicily, and was instrumental to the liberation of Germany from the Nazis -
Adolf Hitler
Was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He initiated WWII and oversaw fascist policies that resulted in millions of deaths -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He was the 334th President of the U.S. from 1953 until 1961, five-star general in the U.S. army durikng WWII and served as Surpreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe -
Omar Bradley
Omar Nelson "Brad" Bradley was a U.S. Armey field commander in North Africa and Europe during WWII, and a General of the Army -
Vernon Baker
Was highly decorated soldier and the only living black WWII veteran to earn the Congressional Meday of Honor -
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The Holocaust
Was the systematic, bureacratic, state-sponsored persecuttion and murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. -
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Merchant Marines
During WWII the ships and men of the U.S. merchant marine trasportated across the oceans of the world the vast quantities of war material,, supplies, equipment and troops needed to fight and win the war -
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The Flying Tigers
A volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, comprised pilots from the U.S. Army Air Corps, Navy, and Marine Corps -
Executive Order 9066
President Roosevelt issued this order to authorize the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to the Relocation Centers further inland -
Bataan Death March
The forcible transfer by the imperial Japanese Army of 60,000-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines -
Navajo Code Talkers
Small group of Chippewas and Oneidas joined the Thirty-second Infantry Division for the express purpose of radio communications. They used a different language to be able to talk with the soilders without the German and Japanese understanding. -
Korematsu v. U.S.
Presidential Executive Order 9066 and congressional statutes gave the military authority to exclude citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas deemed critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage. -
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Battle of Midway
six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of WWII -
Office of War Information
Created during WWII to consulidate existing governmant iknformation serviced and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad -
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Manhatton Project
U.S. government research project that produced the first atomic bombs -
D-Day Invasion
The day the Allied powers crossed the English Channel and landed ont eh beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe form Nazi conrol during WWII -
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Nuremberg Trials
Were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after WWII, most notable for the prosecution of prominant members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany -
Potsdam Conference
Held near Berli, the Postdam Conference was the last of the WWII meetings held by the "Big Three" heads of state. Had the American President(Harry S. Truman), British Prime Minister(Winston CHurchill), and Soviet Premier(Joseph Stalin). -
Hiroshima
The first atoic bomb used in world history. THe bomb(Little Boy), exploded in Hiroshima and killed 90,000-166,000 people -
Atomic Bomb
Is the most powerful weapons which was used in history. Used in WWII in August 1945 in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan after a few weeks Japan declared unconditional surrender -
Nagasaki
The second atomic bomb in world history. The bomb(Fat Man) exploded in Nagasaki and killed 39,000-80,000 people
