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19 Cards in this Set
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Helped in the development of the Atomic Bomb
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Oppenheimer
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Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; planned the D-Day invasion of Normandy
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Eisenhower
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Army Chief of Staff during the war
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Marshall
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Prime Minister of Vichy regime in France; collaborated with Nazis
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Petin
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Leading British General in North Africa and Europe
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Montgomery
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U.S. General who abandoned but later fulfilled promise to return to the Philippines
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MacArthur
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Emperor of Japan
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Hirohito
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General who led the bombing raid on Tokyo in the months after Pearl Harbor
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Doolittle
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Pressured the U.S. government into dealing with African Americans' demands for civil rights
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Randolph
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General and leader of Free French forces
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Degaulle
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Japanese admiral who planned and directed the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Yamamoto
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U.S. General and tank commander who pushed into Paris and later Berlin
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Patton
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Head of the War Production Board in the U.S.
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Nelson
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American general in China, directed operation over the Burma Road
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Stilwell
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U.S. General involved with Normandy and victor at St. Lo
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Bradley
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German General known as "the Desert Fox"
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Rommel
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U.S. Admiral who won the Battle of Midway
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Nimitz
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British Prime Minister during most of the war
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Churchill
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U.S. Pilot of the Enola Gay that dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
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Tibbets
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