WWll : abroad

  • congressional medal of honor

    medal of honor: the highest u.s. military decoration awarded for bravery and valor in action "above and beyond the call of duty".
  • Douglas MacArthur

    united states general who served as chief of staff and commanded allied forces in the south pacific during world war ll
  • george marshall

    united stated general and statesman who as secretary of state organized the european recovery program
  • Chester W. Nimitz

    united states admiral of the pacific fleet during world war 11 who used aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese navy
  • George s. Patton

    us general, who successfully developed tank warfare as an extension of cavalry tactics in world war ll: captured palermo, sicily (1942) and much of france (1944)
  • Dwitght Eisenhower

    united states general who supervised the invasion of normandy and the defeat of nazi germany; 34th president of united states.
  • omar Bradley

    • united states general who played an important role in the allied victory in world war ll
  • conventional weapons

    a weapon which is neither nuclear, biological, nor chemical.
  • Tuskegee airmen

    Tuskegee airmen

    a groupe of african-american pilots who fought in world war ; they formed the 332nd freighter group and the 477th bombardment group of the united states army air corps(army air forces after june 20th 1941)
  • concentration camps

    a guarded prison camp in which non military prisoners are held, esp one of those in Nazi germany in which millions were exterminated.
  • flying tigers

    the nickname of u.s fighter pilots, the american volunteer group (AVG), who fought against the japanese in china during world war ll.
  • liberty shipa

    a slow cargo ship built during world war ll.
  • multiple front war

    they fought at different places at the same time.
  • Bataan death march

    a march of 75,000 american and filipino prisoners of war after the battle of bataan in 1942..the march characterized by the murder and physical abuse the prisoners went though, over 6-11,000 men died during the march.
  • battle of widway

    naval battle of world war ll (june); american planes based on land on carriers decisively defeated a japanese fleet on its way to invade the midway islands.
  • island hopping

    the american strategy in the pacific during world war ll. it involved a leapfrogging movement of american forces from one strategic island to the next until american forces were in control of the pacific and prepared to invade japan.
  • merchant marines

    the crew of a merchant vessel
  • Navojo code talkers

    Navojo code talkers

    servret agent who was one of the navajos who devised and used a code based on their native language: the code was unbroken by the jappanese during world war ll.
  • D-Day invasion

    the allied forces invaded france during world war ll.
  • Holocaust operation overloard

    was the code name for the battle of normandy the operation that launched the invasion of germane-occupied western europe by allied forces.
  • atomic weapons

    nuclear weapon: of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction.
  • potsdam conference

    a conference held in potsdam in the summer of 1945 where roosevelt stalin, and churchill drew up plans for the administration of germany and poland after world war ll ended.

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