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Adolf Hitler became the German chancellor and, in a few months, established a totalitarian one-party dictatorship known as Nazi Germany. Some of Hitler's major policy goals were returning Germany into a great power status, annexing all territories with ethnic German majority, and attacking the Soviet Union to conquer the new living space. -
He leader of Fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini, ordered Italian troops to invade Ethiopia. The Italian Fascist government had embarked upon a policy of colonial expansion in northeast Africa. -
The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. -
Soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Patton was given command of the 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions and organized a training center in the California desert. -
American pilots who fought in the Chinese Air Force during World War II between 1941 and 1942. They are best known for popularizing the shark’s-mouth design frequently painted American military aircraft. In addition, their now-famous unit insignia of a winged Bengal tiger was designed by the Walt Disney Company. -
The Bataan Death March was a horrific event that killed 20,000 prisoners, after the fall of the Philippines. -
The agreement guaranteed decent living conditions, and a minimum wage of 30 cents an hour, as well as protections from forced military service, and guaranteed part of wages were to be put into a private savings account in Mexico. It also allowed the importation of contract laborers from Guam as a temporary measure during the early phases of World War II. -
Beginning in November 1942, Eisenhower headed Operation Torch, the successful Allied invasion of North Africa. He then directed the amphibious invasion of Sicily and the Italian mainland in 1943 that led to the fall of Rome in June 1944. -
MacArthur was appointed supreme commander of Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific and awarded the Medal of Honor for his defense of the Philippines. He spent the next two and a half years commanding an island-hopping campaign in the Pacific before famously returning to liberate the Philippines . -
Authorized the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. -
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. The first detonation of a nuclear weapon. -
Marine Corps leadership selected 29 Navajo men, the Navajo Code Talkers, who created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language. The code primarily used word association by assigning a Navajo word to key phrases and military tactics. This system enabled the Code Talkers to translate three lines of English in 20 seconds, not 30 minutes as was common with existing code-breaking machines. -
Led Allied troops as they drove into Germany near the end of World War II. Known as the “G.I.'s General” for the concern he showed ordinary soldiers, Bradley became a five-star general. -
Was a commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet during World War II. A brilliant strategist, he commanded all land and sea forces in the central Pacific. -
Vernon Baker was one of seven African Americans to receive the Medal of Honor for service in World War II, an award delayed decades by bias and discrimination. -
A landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of their citizenship. -
An series of trials held in Nürnberg, Germany, in 1945–46, in which former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals by the International Military Tribunal. -
America's most decorated combat soldier of World War II and a famous movie star.