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genocide
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intentional killing of an entire people
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holocaust
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systematic murder of Jews and others by the Nazis
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internment camp
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a prison like camp for political leaders, aliens, or prisoners of war
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hiroshima
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a city in Japan with a population of 343,000; americans bombed this city with a bomb called"little boy" on august 6, 1945;100,000 were killed
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einsatzgruppen
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ss mobile killing units; made to kill as many people as possible especially jews
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Eisenhower
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commander of D-Day invation forces
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Rommel
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German general known as the desert fox
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Zhukov
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soviet commander who defeated the germans at stalingrad
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wallenberg
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swedish diplomat who protected hungarian jews from the Nazis
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Nimitz
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U.S. commander in chief of naval forces in the pacific
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churchill
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british prim minister during WWII
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De Gaulle
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leader of free french
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Montgomery
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british commander who defeated the Germans at El Alamein
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Einstein
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Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who urged FDR to build an atomic bomb
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Hirohito
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Japanece emporer who decided to surrender
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