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Dwight D Eisenhower
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34th president five-star general during World War II supreme commander of Allied forces
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Douglas Mac Arthur
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Chief of Staff Gen. Field Marshal and American General Philippine army
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George s Paton
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US Gen. best known for his command of the seventh U.S. Army
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Harry S Truman
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He made the final decision to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Winston Churchill
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Prime Minister of Great Britain he led the fight against Nazis during World War II
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Allied powers
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Great Britain France China US Soviet Union
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Neutrality acts
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Limited US ability to aid Francher Great Britain against Germans not To entangle in foreign affairs
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Cash and carry
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It replaced neutrality acts allowed sale to belligerents
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Land lease act
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When US supplied the UK Soviet Union China. Free France and other allied nations
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Atlantic charter
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It was the goals for the post of the war set ideas
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Yalta conference
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Was the meeting between the heads of the allies leaders
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Pots damn declaration
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Stalin Truman Chamberlain demanded unconstitutional surrender from Japan
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Munich conference
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Was the conference at the leaders of Great Britain France Germany Italy Hitler demanded Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
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Appeasement
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France and Britain allowed Hitler to have anything they wanted as long as he would seizes aggressive policies. Anything to stop war
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Notsi Soviet pact
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An agreement between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union
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United Nations
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International organization stating international law security economic development world peace etc.
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Pearl Harbor
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US-base were Japanese did a sneak attack method and shot N bombed base killing many soldiers and civilians
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Battle of Midway
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Most important battle of Pacific campaign U.S. Navy defeated but Japanese Navy
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Operation torch
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British-American invasion of French North Africa
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D day
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156,000 American British Canadian forces landed on beaches along 50 mile coast of France's Normandy region
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Battle of bulge
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Major German launch through Belgium France and Luxembourg of the Western front
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Island hopping
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Strategy in Pacific theater whereby selected items were secured by Allied forces
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Iwo Jima
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Major battle US caught and captured the island of Iwo Jima by the American
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Two Japanese bases where US nuclear bomb and destroyed the whole area after Pearl Harbor attack
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Navajo code talkers
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They were young Navajo men sent messages across the battlefield
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Blitzkrieg
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Lightning war German tactic around light tanks surrounded by planes and foot soldiers
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Enigma machine
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It was a device encryption of secret messages
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Joseph Stalin
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Leader of USSR major part in defeat of Hitler's Germany
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Totalitarian state
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When only the GOV is in control
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Benito Mussolini
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The fascist prime minister of Italy he promised to fight alongside Hitler
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Fascism
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Political movement which ruled Italy uses propaganda
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Adolph Hitler
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Dictator and very clever national Socialist of Germany many people or with him and his totalitarian state was known for leadership in holocaust very persuasive in his speeches
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Notsi party
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Hitler was leader Nazis were his army that fought for him killed many Jews and eventually anyone who wasn't with them
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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
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German awarded pour le merite for his Exploits in Italian front
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Emperor Hirohito
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Emperor of Japan very involved in World War II
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Hideki Tojo
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Gen. was responsible for surprise attack on Pearl Harbor which led to war
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Axis powers
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Germany Italy japan
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Office of price administration
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To control money and rents after outbreak of ww2
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War production Board
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Government agency established by FDR regulate production of materials and fuel
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Office of strategic services
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Wartime intelligence agency formed in order to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy line for US Armed Forces
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Relocation camps
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Relocated American Japanese
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Tuskegee Airman
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African-American pilots who fought in World War II first African-American to do so
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Woman's armies corps
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What is the branch of women who fought in the war for US
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J Robert Oppenheimer
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Dir. of Manhattan project attempted to create the atomic bomb
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Rosie the riveter
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Supported women who work in factories. We can do it motto
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Holocaust
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The murders of approximately 6,000,000 Jews led by Adolph Hitler and the Nazis
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Nuremberg trial
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Trialed Nazis and found them guilty
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Nanking
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Japanese capture the city in China mass murder of many people
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Bataan death March
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The Americans and Philippines were forced to walk 80 miles to the camp and were killed on the way
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