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32 Cards in this Set
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Winston Churchill
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Prime Minister of Britain;
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Adolf Hitler
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Germany; Fascist
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Joseph Stalin
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SU; communist
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Benito Mussolini
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Italy; fascist
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FDR
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US; democrat
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Harry S Truman
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FDR's VP, democrat
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Col. Ben O Davis
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brigadier general; AA's in combat
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Oveta Culp Hobby
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1st director of Women's Army Auxilary Corps; colonel `
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Chester Nimitz
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NAVY; pacific; operation against Japan
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Douglas MacArthur
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"I shall return"; ARMY; filipino forces in Philippines
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James Doolittle
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command of bombing Tokyo
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Erwin Rommel
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"Desert Fox" "Afrika Korps" German officer
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Eisenhower
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leader ARMY
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A Philip Randolph
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters;
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Bernard Montgomery
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British general; invasion of sicily
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Emp. of Japan
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Hirohito
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Robert Jackson
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head Judge; chief justice; Nuremburg
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john boehner
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speaker of the house (ohio) R
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Rob Gates
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Sec of Defense
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Chamberlain (quote)
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"there'll be peace in our time"
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Francisco Franco
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Spain; fascist
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Robert Oppenheimer
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atomic bomb
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Bracero Program
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mexicans coming to US to farm
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double V
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victory against germany and racism
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Zoo suiters
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used too much material in their baggy soots
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Navajo Code
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only code never broken
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Leyte Gulf
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largest naval battle; kamikaze ("divine wind")
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Battle of Midway
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TURNING POINT; could never get further east
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Stalingrad
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would cut soviets off from resources
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Battle of the Bulge
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one last effort against Allies
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Iwo Jima
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allowed US to land closer to JApan to refuel
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Operation Overlord
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Invasion of France; DDay
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