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18 Cards in this Set
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Benito Mussolini |
Calling himself 11 Duce he founded the fascist party into control over the government and Army in Italy |
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Adolf hitler |
Leader of the nazi partyand Germany during World War II he blamed Germany's problems on the outcome of World War I and use and promised to return the country to glory |
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Joseph Stalin |
Dictator of the Soviet Union and head of the Soviet communist party who let the Soviet union with an iron fist creating totalitarian state and crushing all opposition |
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Neville chamberlain |
British prime ministeras great Britain entered World War II known for his policy of appeasement toward Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany |
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Franklin Roosevelt |
32nd president of the United Stateselected four times instituted a new deal to counter the great depression and let country during World War II |
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Winston Churchill |
Elected to be the British prime ministershortly after World War II began and serve to the end of the war in Europe |
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General Hideki Tojo |
Army general and prime ministerWho let Japan through much of World War II and was later executed as a war criminal |
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General Douglas MacAurther |
US general :Supreme commanderof allied forces in SW Pacific during World War II excepted the surrender of Japan and oversaw the successful allied occupation of postwar Japan |
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Admiral Chester Nimitz |
United States admiral of the pacific fleetduring World War II who use aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese Navy |
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General Dwight D.Eisenhower |
Supreme commander of allied forcesin Western Europe during World War II supervised the invasion of Normandy in the defeat of Nazi Germany |
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Tuskegee airmen |
African American squadron that escorted bombers in the air over Europe during WW11 |
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442nd Regimental combat team |
WW11 unit made of Japanese Americanvolunteers was the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of American warfare |
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A. Philip Randolph |
African-American civil-rights and labor movement leader who helped convince presidentRoosevelt to issue executive order 8802 in 1941 banning discrimination in the defense industries during World War II |
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Rosie the Riveter |
Cultural Ivan is the United Stateswe are presenting the American women who worked in factories during World War II |
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Harry S Truman |
Became the 33rd POTUS when FDR diedhe led the nation in the final months of World War II made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan |
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Navajo code talkers |
Played an important role in the pacific island-hopping campaignusing a code based on their language radio operators sent messages from island to island that the Japanese couldn't understand |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer |
Scientist in charge of the US Manhattan project |
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Albert Einstein |
German born physicist who emigrated from Germany to the US when the nazi took power before WW11route to President FDR advising him to approve funding for the development of uranium before Germany could gain the upper hand |
