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32 Cards in this Set
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Leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party?
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Adolf Hitler
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32nd president, who was elected 4 terms in office?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Prime Minister of Italy, one of the founders of Italian fascism?
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Benito Mussolini
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Leader of the Soviet Union?
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Joseph Stalin
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Emperor of Japan?
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Hirohito
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A general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan?
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Hideki Tojo
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The commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II, responsible for major battles in the Pacific (Pearl Harbor and Midway)?
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Isoroku Yamamoto
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Field marshall in the German army, surrendered to the Soviets in Stalingrad?
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Friedrich Paulus
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German propaganda minister?
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Paul Goebbels
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Deputy to Adolf Hitler, right hand man?
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Rudolph Hess
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A Nazi German politician and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS)?
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Heinrich Himmler
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German field marshall, know as the Desert Fox? Fought in North Africa and in the Battle of Normandy.
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Erwin Rommel
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General who led the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese home island of Honshū during World War II?
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James Doolittle
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Prime minister of France, surrendered to Germany in 1940?
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Henri Petain
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U.S. army general who commanded both corps and armies as a general in North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations?
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George Patton
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French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II?
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Charles de Gaulle
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Leader in the SS that commanded a rescue mission that freed the deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from captivity?
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Otto Skorzeny
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33rd president of the US?
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Harry Truman
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A brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare. The bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima?
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Paul Tibbets
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General in the U.S. army, commander in the Philippines?
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Douglas MacArthur
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Leader of the Nationalist Chinese- an anti Communist ally of the United States?
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Chiang Kai-shek
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The leader of the Chinese communists who fought the Japanese during WWII and took power over China after a civil war ended in 1949?
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Mao Zedong
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The father of the atomic bomb?
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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President of Germany who appointed Hitler as Chancellor?
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Paul von Hindenburg
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U.S. Air Force general who directed the bombing of Tokyo, Hiroshima and other cities
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Curtis LeMay
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A tough and outspoken U.S. admiral whose slogan became "Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill Japs."
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William "Bull" Halsey
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General of the U.S. army?
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George Marshall
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Soviet military commander who conquered Berlin, Germany?
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Marshal G.K. Zhukov
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Powerful leader of the SS, Gestopo the RKVDV and other feared groups?
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Richard Heydrich
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Was the primary military leader in charge of the Manhattan Project?
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Leslie Groves
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Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs?
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Gakeazzo Ciano
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Tried to kill Hitler?
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Claus von Stauffenberg
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