He commanded Allied forces during WW2. He was supreme Allied commander and organised the D-Day landings along with his British counterpart, Field Marshall Montgomery. MacArthur was also a General during WW2 and commanded the Pacific theatre, he was the General to receive the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. He was relieved of his command during the Korean War after suggesting to atomically bomb China, who had entered the war on the North Korean side.
Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War
