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Chester W. Nimitz
Chester William Nimitz was 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 -
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was 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 -
Omar Bradley
a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II -
Vernon Baker
Vernon Joseph Baker was 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
He received every military combat award for valor available from the U.S. Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism. -
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
a war of aggression which was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from October 1935 to February 1937 -
German annexation of Austria and Sudetenland invasion of Czechoslovakia
Germany wanted to expand its territory to include the Sudetenland and gain control of key military defences in the area. The Nazis justified the invasion by claiming that Austria had descended into chaos. -
Tuskegee Airmen
a group of primarily African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II. They formed the 332d Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces -
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. -
Navajo Code Talkers
a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication. -
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
Forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. -
Bracero program
permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts. -
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. -
George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II -
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 I -
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
an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961