Joint Chief of Staff - body of senior uniformed leaders in the United States Department of Defense who advise the

Secretary of Defense, the Homeland Security Council, the National Security Council and the President on military matters Enigma was a code making machine used by Germany to send messages in WW2. The code was cracked by the Polish and the Allies were able to learn vital secrets. Ultra the information gained by the Allies from cracking Enigma messages was code named Ultra. Casablanca Conference - to plan the European strategy of the Allies during World War II. Present were Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and many French representatives to file reports for the French. Operation Torch - was the British-American invasion of French North Africa in World War II during the North African Campaign, started on 8 November 1942. Battle of Stalingrad - major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943. It was the largest battle on the Eastern Front and was marked by brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties. It is among the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with the higher estimates of combined casualties amounting to nearly two million Operation Overlord - Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of Germanoccupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. Battle of the Bulge - major German offensive (die Ardennenoffensive), launched toward the end of World War II through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, hence its French name (Bataille des Ardennes), and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front. The Wehrmacht's code name for the offensive was Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein ("Operation Watch on the Rhine"), after the German patriotic hymn Die Wacht am Rhein. Elbe River - one of the major rivers of Central Europe that flows through the Czech Republic and Germany. In WW2 the Russian and Allied Forces converged at the Elbe river on April 25, 1945 effectively defeating the Nazis. Victory in Europe was declared shortly after. Holocaust - was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, throughout Nazi-occupied territory Nuremburg - is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Nazi war criminals were tried in Nuremburg at the end of WW2 for crimes against humanity. May 8, 1945 Victory in Europe Day. This was the date the allied forces accepted unconditional surrender of the Nazi Armed Forces.

Bataan Death March - was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 76,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of prisoners. Battle of the Coral Sea - was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first ever fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. Battle of Midway - widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II.[5][6][7] Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet.[8] Military historian John Keegan has called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare. General Joseph W Stilwell - was a United States Army four-star General known for service in theChina Burma India Theater. His caustic personality was reflected in the nickname "Vinegar Joe". Although distrustful of his allies Stilwell showed himself to be a capable and daring tactician in the field but a lack of resources meant he was forced continually to improvise Jiang Jieshi - was a political and military leader of 20th-century China. He was an influential member of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang (KMT), and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen. He became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy, and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT when Sun died in 1925. Pacific Strategy - Australian government policy (20012007) of transporting asylum seekers to detention centres on small island nations in the Pacific Ocean, rather than allowing them to land on the Australian mainland Unconditional Surrender - in which no guarantees are given to the surrendering party. In modern times unconditional surrenders most often include guarantees provided by international law. Manhattan Project - research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. Hiroshima/Nagasaki Allies of World War II conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. V-J Day Victory over Japan Day. The official surrender of Japan was on August 15, 1945 and the declaration was signed on September 2, 1945. The UK recognizes Aug 15, whereas US recognizes Sep 2.