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11 Cards in this Set
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Admiral Chester Nimitz
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commander of central pacific
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Tuskegee Airmen
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african americans pilots served in segregated units
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A. Philip Randolph
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head of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters who planned a march on D.C to demand an end to racial discrimination
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Winston Churchill
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british prime minister led the country during ww2
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Joseph Stalin
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bolshevik leader in russia. wanted soviet power, communism
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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planned operation overload. elected president after ww2 as a war hero
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D-day
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June 6 1944. battle on Normandy beach. bloodiest battle
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Operation Overload
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the allies' assault on Hitler's atlantic wall
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Battle of the Bulge
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December 16 1944. allies defeat used up the last of hitlers reserve units and opened a route into germany's heartland
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Yalta Conference
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to discuss the postwar world
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"final solution"
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the nazi's final solution to the jewish problem. extermination of 6 million jews
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