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23 Cards in this Set
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Charles De Gaulle |
French government
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Winston Churchill |
prime minister of GB |
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Adolf Hitler |
Nazi dictator |
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Joseph Stalin |
Communist dictator |
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Franklin Roosevelt |
American president |
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Hideki Tojo |
Prime minister of japan |
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Benito Mussolini |
Fascist dictator |
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Harry Truman |
U.s president end of WW2 |
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George Marshall |
U.s army chief |
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Dwight Eisenhower |
U.s commander |
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Neutrality Acts |
laws passed by congress to ban sale of arms or loans to nations at war |
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Blitzkrieg |
lightning war strategy used by Germany against Poland |
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Holocaust |
genocide of jews & others by Nazis
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Atlantic charter |
british & American statement of goals for WWII |
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war production board |
gov. agency that declared who would make war materials and how to distribute raw materials |
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rationing |
restricting the amt. of food and supplies to assure there's enough money for military |
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kamikaze |
Japanese suicide flight |
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Nuremberg trials |
tribunal that tried Nazi leaders for war crimes |
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internment camp |
area where people were kept under guard |
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war bonds |
certificates of debt issued by a government |
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Pearl Harbor who what where why when how |
who: isoruku yammamotto what: naval base & army base where: hawaii why: to win war when: 12/7/1941 how: surprise attack |
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Operation overlord who what where why when how |
who: Dwight eisenhower what: allied invasion of Nazi controlled france where: normandy why: win war when: 6/6/44 how: largest amphibious invasion in world history |
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Manhattan project |
who: robet openheimer what: building an atomic bomb where: los Alamos, n.m. why: win war when: 1941-1945 how: dropped 2 on japan |
