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Doglas MacAthur
Doglas MacArthur fought in World War 1 and in World War 2. He was the commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific. -
Island Hopping
Island Hopping was the US strategy in the Pacific Theater. With the highest number of non-combatant U.S. casualties in the island-hopping campaign, the New Georgia mission became a costly succes. -
Merchant Marines
Merchant Marines were a crew of Merchant vessels. -
Multiple Front War
Germany, Japan and the United States were all fighting a two-front war during World War 2, but only U.S. will ultimately be succesful at it. -
Liberty Ships
As the United States entered World War 2, the military found itself ill prepared for large-scale naval operations. The Merchant Marine Act 1936 established a national maritme commision, which produced for threee types of cargo ships. Attempting to present a more positive, image, the U.S. Maritime Commision reffered to the ships as the Liberty Fleet and proclaimed September 27, 1941 the day the first fifteen ships were launched -
Tuskegee Airmen
A foundation dedicated to preserving the history of America's first black military airmen. -
Concentration Camp
Concentration Camps were camps that the Jewish, Gypsie, or other people were forced to go to, to be tortured or forced to do work. -
Bataan Death March
About 2,300 American prisoners of war died in the forced march to Luzon and an equal number of Filipino allies. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway were important turning points for the American military. Fighting to the west of Midway, the US Navy attacked and sunk their ships. -
Navajo Code Talkers
They were a small band of warriors who created an unbreakable code from the ancient language of their people and changed the course of Modern History. -
Omar Bradely
Omar Bradley captured Bizertr, Tunisia in 1943, which led to the surrender of more that 250,000 Axiz troops. As a commander in World War 2, he planned and participated in the Normandy Invasion. In, 1949, he was named the first chirman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. -
Chester W. Nimitz
Chester W. Nimitz served in World War 1, as cheif of staff, to the commander of the U.S Atlantic submarine force. -
D-Day Invvasion
D-Day refers to the Invasion of Normandy which took place on June 6, 1944, during World War 2. -
Operation Overload
Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupiedn western Europe. Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings of June 1944, was the beginning of the end of Hitler and his army in Euproe. -
Congressional Medal of Honor
The Medal of Honor was created during the American Civil War and it was the highest honor in the army. -
Postdam Conference
The Postdam Conference, a meeting of the victorious leader of the Alliies in Europe, attempted to confront the delicate balance of power of the opposing government structures, democracy and communism. -
Atomic Weapons
The first atomic bomb took place in Japan marked the end of World War 2, many historian argue that it also ignited the Cold War. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-spinsored persecution and murder of approsimately six million Jews by the Nazi regime. -
Conventional Weapons
Conventional weapons are normal weapons that most nations posses. -
Flying Tigers
William Pawley, founded the Flying Tigers of World War 2. A historical account of the 14th Air Force known as "The Flying Tigers" who were stationed in China during World War 2. -
George Marshall
George Catlett Marshall America's foremost soldier durin World War 2, served as cheif of staff from 1939 ro 1945, building and directing the largest army in history. -
Dwight Eisenhower
In 1945, Dwight Eisenhower was appointed as the U.S. Army cheif: then he became the first Supreme Allied Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1951. In !952 he was elcted president U.S. president, where he seved two terms.
