WWII

Bataan Death March

25,000 Americans and Filipinos died marching to captivity in the Philippines- April 194

V-E Day

May 8th, 1945

Vernon Baker

Only living African American soldier awarded Medal of Honor in 1997

Korematsu v United States, 1944

Supreme court case challenging Japanese internment

Tuskegee Airmen

African American fighter squadron in Europe

Chester Nimitz

American admiral in the Pacific- commander of US Fleet

George Patton

Army General, tank commander, led 3rd Army

V-J day

Aug. 14 1945

Pearl Harbor

Dec. 7th 1941

Lend Lease Act

FDR's plan to supply the Allies while still staying "neutral"

Executive Order 9066

Internment of Japanese citizens and residents during WWII

D-day

Invasion of Normandy, France- June 6th, 1944

Navajo "Code Talkers"

Native Americans who used their native language to transfer messages for the Allies.

Harry Truman

President who dropped the atomic bomb

Yalta Conference

Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt meet to discuss post war Europe

Douglas MacArthur

Supreme Commander of Allied troops in Pacific

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Supreme allied commander in Europe

War Production Board

The group in charge of transforming America's industries from peacetime to wartime production

Battle of Midway

Turning point of the war in the Pacific

Island Hopping

US strategy in Pacific

Flying Tigers

Volunteer US fighter pilots, helping China fight Japan

Iwo Jima and Okinawa

high US casualties led to decisions to drop atomic bomb

Battle of the Bulge

last ditch offensive by Hitler, Allied victory, secured victory in Europe

Nuremberg Trials

many German and Japanese officials tried for "crimes against humanity"