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Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. -
George Marshall
George Marshall was Army Chief of Staff that coordinated the war effort from Washington, D.C. He was known as an "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II. He was the namesake of the "Marshall Plan" for which he was awarded the noble peace prize. -
Chester W. Nimitz
Chester W. Nimitz was a five-star admiral of the United States Navy. He was Commander in Chief for United States Pacific Fleet in U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II. He was the leading U.S. Navy authority on submarines. -
George S. Patton
George S. Patton was a brash American General and brilliant tank commander that led the 3rd Army of the United States in the final assault on Germany. -
Omar Bradley
Omar Bradley was a senior U.S. Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army in the United States Army. -
Concentration camps
Concentration camps were sites of internment during the Holocaust which were liberated by American forces. They were camps in which Jewish individuals were confined in under harsh conditions. -
Holocaust
The Holocaust was a systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution & murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime. It consisted of the mistreatment of Jewish individuals by placing them in death and work camps until the starved or were simply killed. -
Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name for a group of African American pilots who fought in World War II. Formally, they were the 332nd Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps. They were the first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces. -
Flying Tigers
The Flying Tigers were former pilots of the U.S. armed services who volunteered to fly with the Chinese Air Force to defend against Japanese aggression. They were the first volunteer American group. -
Liberty ships
Liberty ships were slow cargo ships built during World War II. They were built for merchant marines and could carry up to a couple thousand tons. -
Multiple Front War
Multiple Front War was the concept of dividing military forces in order to fight on land in Europe and sea/land in the Pacific. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000 Filipino and 15,000 American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. The march ranged from physical abuse and murder to resulting in very high fatalities inflicted upon prisoners and civilians alike. -
Navajo Code Talkers
The Nevajo Code Talkers were group that used the practice of encryption to convert communication into an unknown language so that it is unable to be decoded by the enemy. They were recruited in the year of 1942. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a turning point for Allies in the Pacific in World War II due to the Japanese's loss of four large aircraft carriers. This was an attack near the tiny U.S. mid-Pacific base at Midway atoll. This was the most important battle during the Pacific campaign of World War II. -
Island Hopping
Island hopping refers to the concept of crossing the ocean by going from island to island. It was an American strategy in the Pacific during World War II. -
Merchant Marines
Merchant Marines was a fleet of civilian-owned merchant vessels that utilized the Liberty cargo ships. The Merchant Marines were responsible for transporting cargo and passengers during peace time. In time of war, the Merchant Marines were an auxiliary to the Navy. -
D-Day Invasion
The D-Day Invasion was an Allied invasion of Northern France to repel the occupation of the German Army, landing at Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade. -
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. -
Potsdam Conference
The Postdam Conference was a meeting that led to the international partitioning of Germany into four separate zones. This is where Truman, Stalin and Churchill created a plan that would determine the fate of the administration of Germany and Poland after the war would end. -
Atomic Weapons
Atomic weapons are weapons of mass destruction whose explosive power can create massive damage and derives its power from nuclear reactions. The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. -
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower was elected on November 4, 1952 and was inaugurated to his first term as the 34th President on January 20, 1953. He was commander of the Allied forces in Europe who led the D-Day invasion. -
Congressional Medal of Honor
This is the United States of America's highest military honor, awarded for brave acts and call of duty. The medal is awarded by the President of the United States in the name of Congress. There are three versions of the medal, one for the Army, one for the Navy, and one for the Air Force. -
Conventional Weapons
The terms conventional weapons refer to weapons that are in relatively wide use that are not weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons). These weapons use explosive material based on chemical energy, as opposed to nuclear energy in nuclear weapons.
