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62 Cards in this Set
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Rashad Ali
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Prime minister of Iraq
Led a coup of the government and cut off the British from oil Signed Axis treaty and tried to break from Allies |
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Aztec Eagles
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Mexican fighter pilot squadron with US Air Force
Led to German attack of Mexican tankers |
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Subhas Chandra Bose
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Indian nationalist leader
Opposed Gandhi and didn't like Britain Fought for independence and took up with Japan |
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Aime Cesaire
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African and French communist who denounced colonial racism in Africa
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Chen Gongbo
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Chinese policition who collaborated with Japan; mover from Communists to left wing of Nationalists
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Chiang Kaishek
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Chinese nationalist leader who gained power even while the nationalist government was weakened
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Charles de Gaulle
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French nationalist leader who was the head of the Free French movement and was pro-war
Headed government in exile |
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Felix Eboue
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Leader of Brazzaville conference; supported de Gaulle and Free French and eventually the Allies
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Faruq, King of Egypt
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Egyptian King who had Axis sympathies while under British control
Forced to make Wafd Was overthrown after Palestine was lost |
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Francisco Franco
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Fascist leader of Spain who was supported by Hitler in the Civil War
Lasted longer than most other Fascists because he stayed out of the war |
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Hajj Amin al-Husseini
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Arab nationalist who collaborated with Nazis and was anti-Britain
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Adolf Hitler
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Nazi leader who essentially brought about the rise of Fascism
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Luang Wichit
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Thai nationalist who was inspired by the Fascists and wanted to attack Indochina
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Ali Maher
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Prime minister of Egypt who wanted to remain neutral but had Axis sympathies
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Benito Mussolini
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Fascist leader in Italy who initially sided with France before attacking Britain and East Africa - nationalist who promoted unity regardless of class
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Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus
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German officer who surrendered in Russia against Hitler's demands - became critic of Nazi regime in trials
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Marshall Henri Phillippe Petain
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Vichy France leader who was essentially a Hitler figurehead - former WWI hero for France
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Phibun Songkhram
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Thai prime minister who took over and became Fascist and eventually sided against Allies, despite originally creating a constitutional monarchy
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Reza Shah
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Shah of Iran/Persia who tried to be neutral but was invaded by Britain, which said his rule was uncivil
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Alfred Rosenberg
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Author of Nazi ideas who justified all of Hitler's policies
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Albert Speer
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Hitler's architect who "apologized" after the war and was imprisoned for creating forced labor
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Joseph Stalin
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Socialist leader of USSR who went from Hitler's side in 1939 (Nazi-Soviet pact) to Allies in 1941 - allowed famine and purges in his time
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Sukarno
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Indonesian president who opposed imperialism - supported Japan but later had to declare independence
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Wang Jingwei
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Founder of Chiense nationalism who eventually collaborated with Japan and was a traitor to China
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Waseda University Baseball Team
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Japanese baseball team - example of how war tore apart traditions
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HG Wells
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British author of "War of the Worlds" - depicted total war and disregard for human life - his meta-narrative of the war says Britain won it
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Wendell Wilkie
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Pro-isolationist leader in the US who had Hitler's support and ran against Roosevelt for President (and lost)
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Frank Yosuke
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Japanese diplomat who tried to justify invasion of China - signed Russo-Japanese treaty but later wanted to attack the country
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Cambridge Five
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Ring of spies in Britain who passed on information to Stalin
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Comfort women
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Women forced to be used as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers
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Aaron Copland
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American composer who created Fanfare for the Common Man - became master of US folk traditions
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Marlene Dietrich
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German actress and singer who moved to Hollywood - came up with Lili Marleen, which sung about missing home
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Joe DiMaggio
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Baseball player who was booed by fans until he was enlisted - reflected the belief that able-bodied Americans (athletes) should be fighting
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Karl Donitz
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Author of German submarine campaign - spread them out in packs and basically gave the order to attack civilians
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Adolf Eichmann
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Key organizer of the Holocaust - managed movement of Jews to extermination camps - was hung in Israel after trial in 1961
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Yonasani Ekisoferi
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Died of arsenic treatment for Thika Syndrome in Kenya, where several people suffered from the unknown disease - "loose women" were blamed in some cases
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Duke Ellington
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African-American band leader - came explicitly out of the war
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Enrico Fermi
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Italian who helped develop the first nuclear reactor in Chicago - one of the "fathers of the Atomic bomb" with Oppenheimer
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Klaus Fuchs
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German scientist who gave information to Russians about atomic bomb/Manhattan project
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Arthur "Bomber" Harris
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British air officer who tried to bomb two German cities per month in order to break German morale and get lower class to turn on Nazis
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Hattori Ryoichi
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Japanese jazz artist - took the enemy's music and nationalized it for Japan
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Reinhardt Heydrich
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High-ranking Nazi official - chaired Wannsee Conference, in which they planned deportation and extermination of Jews
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Jay Hormel
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Leader of company that made spam - greatly increased production during WWII time
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Waruhiu Itote
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One of the King's African Rifles who led the Mau Mau rebellion between Kenyans/British East Africans and Britain
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George Kennan
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Founder of the idea of "containment" - said the US should contain USSR expansive tendencies - key in emergence of Cold War
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Jose Laurel
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President of the Republic of the Philippines during war - recognized by Japan and was put in place thanks to heavy Japanese influence
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Pierre Laval
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Vichy France leader - denied taking part in collaboration, but was generally despised by French post-war and was a traitor
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Curtis LeMay
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US Air Force general - Commander of XXI Bomb Group, which strategically bombed the Pacific islands
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Joe Louis
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Boxer who showed what African-Americans can do
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Vera Lynn
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English singer who was the "British armed forces sweetheart" - teenager who sang about missing home ("White Cliffs of Dover", "We'll Meet Again")
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General Douglas MacArthur
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American General who remade Japanese society - purged militarists and gave Japan no army per its constitution
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General C.G.E. Mannerheim
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Commander of Finland's defense forces - headed Finnish army in attacks from USSR
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Margaret Mead
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American writer who wrote about what happened while the soldiers were away, such as infidelity from their women and their jobs being taken
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Henry Morgenthau
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US Secretary of Treasury who played key role in foreign policy post-war - "Morgenthau Plan" prevented Germany from ever becoming a military power again
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Jackson Mulinge*
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Kenyan Armed Forces Chief of Staff - 18 years old when forced into action by Britain
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Nachthexen (Night Witches)
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Soviet women's aviation forces (588th Night Bomber Regiment) who precision bombed Germany beginning in 1942
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Robert Oppenheimer
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Primary architect of the atomic bomb
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Satchel Paige
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One of many Negro League baseball players who didn't get to play in the majors until the war
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Georges Remi (Herge)
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Author of Tintin, a series of comics that were anti-Capitalist and were very popular worldwide
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Rubber Soldiers (Brazil)
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Brazilians who were brought in to help gather and refine rubber - initially more men, but more women were brought in over time
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Fritz Sauckel
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Nazi official who rounded up 7 million forced laborers
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Joseph Stilwell
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American general who essentially was Kaishek's chief of staff - made sure Kaishek wasn't attacking communists - attacked Japan along with China by 1944
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