WWII 1939-1945

By Haley Williams

  • Conventional Weapons

    Conventional weapons are relatively wide use that are not weapons of mass destruction (e.g. nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons). include small arms and light weapons, sea and land mines.

  • The Holocaust

    Hitler was mass killing all the Jewish people.

  • Liberty ships

    technology used by the Merchant Marines to contribute to the victory in World War 2

  • Merchant Marines

    fleet of civilian-owned merchant vessels that utilized the Liberty cargo ships
  • Congressional Medal of Honor

    Congressional Medal of Honor

    The Medal of Honor is the highest award for an individual serving in the Armed Services of the United States. Generally presented to its recipient by the President of the United States of America in the name of Congress.

  • multiple front war

    dividing military forces in order to fight on land in Europe and sea/land in the Pacific

  • Potsdam Conference

    This conference allies decided the Russia would continue to wait for support.

  • George Marshall

    Army Chief of Staff that coordinated the war effort from Washington, D.C

  • Navajo Code Talkers

    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

  • Atomic Weapons

    Atomic Weapons where large weapons that were not well known or used. They destroyed large chuncks of lad and many people.

  • Operation Overload

    operation overload was the cross channel invasion of german when the occupied france.

  • D-Day

    Millions of men, million tons of weapons and aircraft. THey set boats out for the beaches of Normandy, France. The count of people who died were high for 1st division.

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    he was commander of the Allied forces in Europe who led the D-Day invasion and later was elected President of the United States

  • Concentration Camps

    Concentration camps were the Nazis sent the Jewish people to be murdered.

  • Island Hopping.

    They were going from island to island to get to Japan.

  • George S. Patton

    brash American General and brilliant tank commander that led the 3rd Army of the United States in the final assault on Germany

  • Flying tigers

    Flying tigers is wa group of men who flew plans during WWII and for battles after that.

  • Battle of Midway

    Japan is headed to midway island and attack the usn fleet.

  • Bataan Death March

    About 2,300 American prisoners of war died in the forced march to Luzon and an equal number of Filipino allies