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Final Second Semester PEOPLE/TERMS Flashcards

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Harry Truman

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President Warns Japan about a new weapon

A rain of ruin from the air

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Enola gay

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The actual plane B - 29

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Paul Tibbets

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Dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima

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Eva Braun

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Hitler’s Mistress

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Dwight Eisenhower

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He led the allies in operation torch North Africa campaign

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Corrie ten brown

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Dutch Christian who hid Jews

“Hiding place”

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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German Protestant pastor who gave his life

“The cost of Discipleship”

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Oskar Schindler

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Businessmen who gave his life saving Jews

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Heinrich Himmler

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Head of the SS (Black shirts) were in charge of the holocaust

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Douglas MacArthur

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Promises his men “I shall return”

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Isoroku Yamamoto

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Admiral of the Japanese navy plans the attack

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Hideki Tojo

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Dictator of the military government

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Hirohito

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Japanese emperor becomes a puppet

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James Doolittle

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He led the 80 volunteers

B -25 bombers strike Tokyo

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Joseph Stalin

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Becomes leader in Russia

Ruthless person

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Island hopping

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Purpose was to get close enough to launch bombing attack on Japan

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Convoy

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Protection of merchant ships from U-boats by having the ships travel in large groups

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Manhattan Project

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Atomic bomb was formed

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Kamikaze

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Japanese suicide planes used in desperation

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Auschwitz

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Largest death camp

Was the most infamous European theater

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Blitzkrieg

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Lightning warfare

Fast and furious to conquer France and Europe

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Bushido code

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Japanese warriors fight to the death or commit suicide

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Hiroshima

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Japanese city where the atomic bomb was dropped

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Dunkirk

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Amphibious operation that miraculously rescued the British and French armies

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Charles de Gaulle

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French government he was excited from France

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Eizengruppen

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Noble death squads in the Soviet Union

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Navaho

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Code talking

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Robert Oppenheimer

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The chief Scientist for the atomic bomb

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