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Congressional Medal of Honor
medal was established for the army -
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Conventional Weapons
ordinary weapons used on the war front -
Holocaust
systrmatic, bureaucratic, state sponsered persecution and murder f millions of jews -
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Concentration Camps
Place where foreign prisoners were kept so they could not spy on the U.S. for their home country -
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Multiple front war
fighting takes place in multiple places -
Liberty Ships
used on liberty fleet day -
FlyingTigers
group of merchant marines who had great amounts offlying experience -
Merchant Marines
put into combat to fly fighting aircrafts during the war -
George S. Patton
pioneer in tank warfare commander -
Bataan Death March
Forced by Japanese onto U.S and Fillipino prisoners -
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Battle of Midway
Six months after Japans attack on Pearl Harbor the U.S. defeated the imperial Japanese Army -
Atomic Weapon
similar to the atomic bomb and used around the sam time -
Island Hopping
U.S. went from island to island taking it over -
D-Day Invasion
Invasion of Normandy France. U.S. attactedon Omaha Beach -
Operation Overlord
code name for the battle of normandy -
Postdam Conference
Discusing WWII problems yet the U.S. still had not used the atomic bomb yet -
George Marshall
Was in office duringWWII