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Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II -
George Marshall
George Marshall was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. -
Chester W. Nimitz
Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, was a five-star admiral of the United States Navy. -
George S. Patton
George S. Patton was a general in the US army -
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 -
Omar Bradley
Omar Bradley was a senior U.S. Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army in the United States Army. -
Concentration Camps
A Concentration Camp is a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was a systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime. -
Flying Tigers
The 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force in 1941–1942 was composed of pilots from the United States Army , Navy , and Marine Corps , recruited under presidential authority. -
Liberty Ships
Liberty ships were cargo ships built in the United States during World War II -
Multiple Front War
A multiple front war is where a war is being fought in multiple different locations -
Navajo Code Talkers
They were a small band of warriors who created an unbreakable code from the ancient language of their people. -
Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 60,000 Filipino and 15,000 American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a turning point for Allies in the Pacific in World War 2, due to Japanese loss of four large aircraft carriers. -
Island Hopping
Island hopping is a term that refers to the means of crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands -
Atomic Weapons
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. Wikipedia -
Merchant Marines
The United States Merchant Marine is the fleet of U.S. civilian-owned merchant vessels, operated by either the government or the private sector, that engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United States. -
D-Day invasion
An allied invasion of Northern France to repel the occupation of the German Army...landing at Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting that led to the international partitioning of Germany into four separate zones. -
Congressional Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest military honor, awarded for personal acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty. The medal is awarded by the President of the United States in the name of Congress. -
Conventional Weapons
conventional weapons or conventional arms generally refer to weapons that are in relatively wide use that are not weapons of mass destruction
