War Department
Army's former headquarters
The War Department was the former name of the United States government agency responsible for military affairs, renamed the Department of Defense in 1947.
The term now appears mainly in historical contexts: War Department records from World War II.
Informally, war department was once slang for one's wife—the domestic authority figure.
- Army Corps of EngineersFederal military construction agency
- Secretary of WarFormer cabinet position overseeing military
- Revolutionary WarColonial uprising against Britain
- military intelligenceWartime information gathering
- Continental ArmyColonial rebel military force
Civil War · military brass · chain of command · World War I · Indian Wars · Reconstruction Era · militia · World War II · war effort · home front · troop movements · World War II · World War II
- Military Affairsmilitary, defense secretary, defense strategy, military policy, military budget
- Civil War recordsmilitary records, battle maps, service records, Union Army, casualty lists
- ConfederacyConfederate States, Jefferson Davis, Confederate flag, Confederate Congress, Confederate Army
- wartime organizationsUSO, civil defense, Home Guard, Selective Service, Joint Chiefs
- Defunct OrganizationsLeague of Nations, Warsaw Pact, Pan Am, TWA, Enron
War DepartmentPeace Corps
Federal volunteer service abroad
State Department · Department of State · USAID · diplomatic corps · United Nations
War DepartmentDefense Department
Federal military oversight agency
Department of Defense · Ministry of Defence · defense ministry · Pentagon
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