people Flashcards
Winston Churchill
Prime minister/led UK during WWII/Soldier and writer
Charles de Gualle
Led France against Germany/restored democracy in France
Dwight Eisenhower
34th US president, commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during ww2
Hirohito
was Emperor of Japan, bombing of Pearl Harbor, led Japan forces in ww2
Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Germany, initiated ww2 by invading Poland, central to the Holocaust
Douglas MacArthur
General of US army during ww2, commanded Southwest Pacific, United National forces, etc “egotistical”
Benito Mussolini
founder of Italian Fascism, inspiration for Hitler (Fascism in Germany)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“father of the atomic bomb”
Erwil Rommel
“Desert Fox”, served Germany
Franklin Roosevelt
U.S. president at the time
Josef Stalin
Soviet political leader, dictator
Paul Tibbets
US air force, dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Hideki Tojo
Former Premier of the Japanese army, was condemned to hang.
Harry Truman
33rd US president during ww2, ordered atomic bombs on Japan
Isoruko Yamamoto
Japanese Navy Admiral, “mastermind” of Pearl Harbor attack, perhaps Japan’s greatest strategist