world war 2

  • 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.
  • audie murphy

    audie murphy

    voted the most popular western actor in America in 1955 by motion picture exhibitors.
  • Italian invasion of Ethiopia

    an armed conflict that resulted in Ethiopia's subjection to Italian rule
  • German annexation of Austria and Sudetenland invasion of Czechoslovakia

    German annexation of Austria and Sudetenland invasion of Czechoslovakia

    The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by 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

    the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps (AAC), a precursor of the U.S. Air Force.
  • Executive Order 9066

    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

    Forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) captured by the Japanese in the Philippines
  • Navajo Code Talkers

    participated in all assaults the U.S. Marines led in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.
  • Flying Tigers

    Flying Tigers

    The group was notable for its unusual mission: Its members were mercenaries hired by China to fight against Japan.
  • bracero program

    bracero program

    permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts
  • Manhattan Project

    the code name for the American-led effort to develop a functional atomic weapon during World War II
  • Korematsu v. U.S.

    Korematsu v. U.S.

    he conviction of Fred Korematsu—a son of Japanese immigrants who was born in Oakland, California—for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during World War II
  • George S. Patton

    George S. Patton

    Considered one of the most successful combat generals in U.S history, George Patton was the first officer assigned to the Tank Corps in WWI.
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials

    uncovered the German leadership that supported the Nazi dictatorship
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
  • douglas macarthur

    douglas macarthur

    was an American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II
  • chester nimitz

    chester nimitz

    commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet during World War II
  • omar bradley

    omar bradley

    one of americas greatest generals