world war 2 key terms

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  • Benito Mussolini

    an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party
  • Harry Truman

    33rd President of the United States (1945–53).
  • George S. Patton

    a United States Army general, who commanded the Seventh United States Army, and later the Third United States Army, in the European Theater of World War II.
  • Omar Bradley

    United States Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army
  • Vernon Baker

    Vernon Joseph Baker (December 17, 1919 – July 13, 2010) was a United States Army officer who received the Medal of Honor, the highest military award given by the United States Government for his valorous actions during World War II.
  • Adolf Hitler

    He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler was at the centre of Nazi Germany, World War II in Europe, and the Holocaust.
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    The Holocaust

    From 1941 to 1945, Jews were targeted and methodically murdered in a genocide
  • Hideki Tojo

    was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II
  • Navajo Code Talkers

    Philip Johnston, a civil engineer for the city of Los Angeles,[12] proposed the use of Navajo to the United States Marine Corps at the beginning of World War II.
  • Executive Order 9066

    United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones.
  • Bataan Death March

    forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and 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 in the Pacific Theater of Operations was one of the most important naval battles of World War II
  • United States Of War Information

    The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II to consolidate existing government information services and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad.
  • Manhattan Project

    The Manhattan Project was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II.
  • D-Day

    The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
  • Korematsu v. U.S.

    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 citizenship.
  • Potsdam Conference

    The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945.
  • manufactureing of first A-Bomb

    On july 16, 1945 the first atomic bomb (A-Bomb for short) was manufactured and tested
  • Hiroshima

    On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, flown by Colonel Paul Tibbets,[15] directly killing an estimated 80,000 people
  • The Numberg Trials

    The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
  • Nagasaki

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front.
  • Merchant Marines

    the fleet of merchant vessels that are registered in a country.
  • Flying Tigers

    The 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG) of the Chinese Air Force in 1941–1942, nicknamed the Flying Tigers, comprised pilots from the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC), Navy (USN), and Marine Corps (USMC), recruited under presidential authority and commanded by Claire Lee Chennault