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Unit 5 World War 2

  • Douglas MacArthur

    Douglas MacArthur

    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. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930's
  • Chester W. Nimitz

    Chester W. Nimitz

    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, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II
  • George S. Patton

    George S. Patton

    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
  • Omar Bradley

    Omar Bradley

    a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II, rising to the rank of General of the Army.
  • Vernon Baker

    Vernon Baker

    a United States Army first lieutenant who was an infantry company platoon leader during World War II and a paratrooper during the Korean War
  • Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    a war of aggression which was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from October 1935 to February 1937. In Ethiopia it is often referred to simply as the Italian Invasion, and in Italy as the Ethiopian War
  • German annexation of Austria and Sudetenland invasion of Czechoslovakia

    German annexation of Austria and Sudetenland invasion of Czechoslovakia

    Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, continued with the creation of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
  • Tuskegee Airmen

    Tuskegee Airmen

    a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II.
  • flying tigers

    flying tigers

    The First American Volunteer Group of the Republic of China Air Force, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was formed to help oppose the Japanese invasion of China.
  • Audie Murphy

    Audie Murphy

    an American soldier, actor, songwriter, and rancher. He was one of the most decorated American combat soldiers of World War II
  • Navajo Code Talkers

    Navajo Code Talkers

    a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. The term is now usually associated with United States service members during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages.
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066

    Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland.
  • bataan death march

    bataan death march

    the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, the prisoners being forced to march despite many dying on the journey
  • Bracero program

    Bracero program

    a series of laws and diplomatic agreements
  • Manhattan Project

    Manhattan Project

    a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada
  • Korematsu v. U.S.

    Korematsu v. U.S.

    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
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials

    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

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States