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Declared himself “Fuhrer” absolute dictator
Adolf Hitler
Comes to power after death of Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Once said “you were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war”
Winston Churchill
Admiral of the Japanese naval. Plans to attack
Isoruko Yamamoto
Germán Protestant Pastor who gave his life saving Jews . Wrote “the cost of decipleship”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jewish girl who wrote a diary about her life
Anne frank
Warns Japan about new weapon “a rain of ruin from the air” president of the United States
Harry Truman
Hitlers wife who commits suicide days after marrying him
Eva Braun
Head of SS. Was in charge of the Holocaust
Heinrich Himmer
“Suicide mission” bombers that strikes Tokyo
James Doolittle
Commander of operation overload of Allied Power
Dwight Eisenhower
Free’d the French. Led exile in French government
Charles de Guille
Piloted during the Enola Gay, dropped the “little bomb”
Paul Tibet’s
Militarist, rose to militarism in Japan
Hideki Tojo
Escaped the Bataan Death March, promised his me. He would come back for them
Douglas Mcarthor
Chief scientist who developed 3 bombs
Robert Oppenheimer
German general fought in operation torch
Erwin Rommel
President of the USA during World War II
Franklin D Roosevelt
Dutch Christians who hid Jews
Corrie Ten Boom
Formed after the war as a repayment to the Jews for the Holocaust
Israel
Goal is to create an empire
Germany
Goal was to create an African empire and restore the Roman Empire (part of axis powers)
Italy
Goal was to create an Asian empire (axis powers)
Japans
Being bear by Japan “rape of Nanking” the forgotten Holocaust
China
“Code talkers” secret us code
Navaho
Japanese suicide planes used in desperation
Kamikazes
Japanese fight to the death of commit suicide
Bushido
Secret atomic bomb project
Manhattan project
Dropped the first atomic bomb known as “little bomb”
Enola gay
A program against the German Jewish community in Germany “night of the broken glass”
Kristalnacht
Anti-Jewish laws in Germany
Nuremberg laws
Hitlers greatest supporters trained to be good soldiers
Hitler youth
Amphibious operation that miraculously rescued the British and French armies
Dunkirk
US naval in pacific
Pearl Harbor
Biggest death camp in Poland
Auschwitz
City in Japan that was nuked by the USA
Hiroshima
Systematic mass slaughter of Jews and undesirables
Holocaust
Democracy is abolished and outlaws all political parties
Third Reich
“Lightning warfare” first bombs, then tanks, the soldiers
Blitzkrieg
America lended stuff (supplies) to other countries.
Lend lease program
Living space for the Germans
Lebensraum
Mobile killing unit
Eizengrupoen
Group of ships
Convoy
US would take an island and put a military base to take out other nearby islands
Island hoping
Bombing of English cities
Blitz
Japanese Americans. Anyone born in the US with Japanese parents
Nisei
Japanese navy is destroyed and the Philippine. Islands are liberated
Leyte Gulf
5 men raise the US flag on Mount Suribachi
Iwo Jima
Battle that resulted in Western Europe liberation from the nazis
D-Day
“Great surprise” Hitlers last offense of the war
The bulge
Key allied victory in Africa
El Alamein
Fought for control over the Russian oil fields
Stalingrad
“Life line of Great Britain” longest continuous battle of WWII/ most pivotal
Atlantic
Hitlers plan to invade and conquer Britain
Britain
US beats Japan. Turning point
Midway
60 month bloody battle
Guadalcanal
