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42 Cards in this Set
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Bombastic US general placed in charge of the decoy army unit FUSAG to fool the Germans about the landing spot of the D-day invasion |
George Patton |
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American scientist who led the Manhattan project during WWII |
Robert Oppenheimer |
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New York mafia "Godfather" who helped with the planing of operation husky |
Charles "lucky" Luciano |
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US general who designed and led the D-day invasion |
Dwight Eisenhower |
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A Navy admiral that led the fleet into battle of midway and coral sea |
Chester Nimitz |
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The most famous spokesman of the "America first" organization |
Charles Lindbergh |
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Head of FBI Led the organization's efforts to hunt down the gangsters |
J. Edgar Hoover |
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Because know as the "Man Who Got Dillinger" |
Melvin purvis |
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Frankie Yales student in the art of underworld crime |
AL Capone (scar face) |
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Pres. Who used radio speeches to give people confidence that the US could rebound front the effects of the depression |
FDR |
Came up with the "New Deal" |
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Whose political career was terminated by voters angry over the treatment of the bonus army |
Herbert hoover |
Blamed for the start of the depression |
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Herbert hoovers army chief of staff who was responsible for getting the bonus army out of DC |
Douglas MacArthur |
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Louisiana democrat and populist who argued that FDR's New Deal did not do enough to help the poor during the 1930's |
Huey P. Long |
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Folk music icon who produced most of the important music in the 1930s |
Woody Guthrie |
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German military leader who led their tank forces in Africa |
Erwin Rommel |
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Soviet military leader who was regarded as the "hero of stalingrad" |
Georgi Zhukov |
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Communist-Nationalist leader of Vietnam and a very important ally of the US against japan |
Ho Chi Minh |
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Militant Japanese military leader who ran the Japanese government until the summer of 1944 |
Hideki Tojo |
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Japanese naval commander who crafted the plan to attack pearl harbor |
Isoroku Yamamoto |
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British tank commander who defeated erwin rommels afrika korps in egypt |
Bernard Montgomery |
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The prime minister that got Hitler to promise that he would take no more territory in Europe after seizing the sudetenland |
Neville Chamberlain |
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Britain's prime minister during the battle of Britain |
Winston Churchill |
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The leader of the Spanish fascists during the Spanish civil war |
Francisco Franco |
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Italys fascist dictator from the early 1920s into WWII |
Benito Mussolini |
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The German military leader that led the opposing forces in the incredible battle |
Friedrich Paulus |
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Who was the leader of the USSR |
Josef Stalin |
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This man was the Nazi government's minister of propaganda |
Josef Goebbels |
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Who was "Der fuhrer" |
Hitler |
Wrote mein kampf |
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The second battle that is considered to be the "turning point" battle in the war in the Pacific |
Battle of Midway |
June 1942 |
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Important for success of bombing raids on the island of Japan itself |
Iwo Jima |
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The post-WWII war crimes trials were held here |
Nuremberg |
German city |
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Germany invasion of France |
Dunkirk |
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Germany invaded France through here |
Ardennes forest |
Belongs to Belgium |
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"Turning point" battle in European theatre |
Stalingrad |
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D-day invasion occurred here |
Normandy |
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"Turning point" battle in the African theatre |
El alamein |
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German city destroyed late in the war as a revenge |
Dresden |
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Japan got an ultimatum to surrender from this site |
Potsdam |
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Important land supply route into China |
Burma road |
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Waterway link from the Mediterranean to Indian Ocean |
Suez Canal |
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MacArthur's pacific headquarters were here |
Philippines |
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Hot temp. And high winds |
Great plains |
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