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George Patton
general George smith Patton jr was a senior officer of the us army who commanded the us seventh army in the Mediterranean and European threats of WW2, but he was best known for this leadership of u.s.
involved in military career leading early trops against Mexican forces and became first officer assigned the new us army took corps in WW1. -
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Red cross
Patriotic for organization such as the red cross and corps. they made bandages knitted socks and collected books to be sent to the troops abroad. celebrating also volunteered to promote the sale of war bonds and other wartime endeavor.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D Eisenhower super commander of the allied forces in western Europe. 5 star and second highest possibly ranck given the go ahead for massive invasion of Europe called operations overload D-Day George Patton was scorch officer of the u.s army was commanded the u.s 7th army in the determiner Europe by the end of ww2 he applied to multiple invasion in Europe against Germany he was apart of D-Day. -
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Navajo code talkers
During WW2 the marine corps used one of the thousands of languages to create and unbreakable code. No other country had American Indians who spoke. Navajo it was an unwritten language it saved thousands of american lives because nobody could break the code. -
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Allied Powers
In ww2 the allies included Britain France the soviet union in the u.s.
The second WW opposing alliance pitted strong democracies against totalitarian regimes the conflict and the two sets of alliances can be seen as representing a struggle between the two alliances. -
Axis Power
Took the name after the tripartite pact was signed by Germany, Italy and japan on 9/27/1940 in Berlin. The axis partner had 2 common interests territorial expansion foundation of empires based on military conquest the over throw of the part ww1 interconnection under the destruction of neutralization of soviet communism. -
Lend Lease Program
The purpose was to provide u.s military aid top foreign nations during WW2. Factories needed more and more workers to build war machines and helped decrease unemployment.
Selling weapons and supplies brought in lots of revenue to help end the great depression. European countries didn't have to pay back debt until after war and only paid for what they salvaged. -
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Flying Tigers
Flying Tigers were recruited to send supplies and to engage in combat with Japanese pilots. -
Pearl Harbor
The morning of this day Japanese boomed islands of the Hawaii in 2 waves of airplanes damaging destroying 18 us ships more than 260 airplanes and invaded killed about 6,000 Americans. The day after Roosevelt asked congress to declarative war on japan a famous quote from FDR in response to the actions was a date which will live in infamy. Entry to WW2 for us. -
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Rationing
us wanted to ration restricted on imported foods limiting on the transportation of goods due to shortages of aberration and a agricultural harvest overseas all contributes to the as gov accession to ration certain essential items. -
Waves
During WW2 waves was a acronym for woman accepted for volunteers emergency service .waves let woman work on planes and fly planes in the continental u.s -
Douglas MacArthur
General commanded the southwest pacific and invaded the island of late in October 1944 To avenge Americans defeat in the Philippines He applied his military actions with island hopping to help relieve pow's from the Bataan Death march. -
George Marshall
He was an american statesman and soldier he was chief of staff for the us army under FDR and Truman served as secretary of state and defense under Truman he hired as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill. -
Omar Bradley
He was a highly distinguished senior traffic of the us army who saw distinguished service in north Africa and Western Europe during WW2. He was also known as top general during D-day. -
Volunteerism of WW2
The victory crops was an american prog during WW2 that provided training to male and female HS students on skills relevant to the war effort. raged from phys conditioning to special skills depending on the desire branch of armed forces. -
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee Airmen were the 1st group of African American fighter pilots in the u.s army corps WW2. The army had resist using black men as pilot they created a segregate unit for them. -
War Bonds
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Wac
Members of the women's army corps were the first women other than nurses to serve within the united states army because they were able to supply the additional sorceress to desperately needed in the military and industrial stated.