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1
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Declared himself “Fuhrer” absolute dictator

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Adolf Hitler

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2
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Comes to power after death of Vladimir Lenin

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Joseph Stalin

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Once said “you were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war”

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Winston Churchill

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4
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Admiral of the Japanese naval. Plans to attack

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Isoruko Yamamoto

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5
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Germán Protestant Pastor who gave his life saving Jews . Wrote “the cost of decipleship”

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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6
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Jewish girl who wrote a diary about her life

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Anne frank

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7
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Warns Japan about new weapon “a rain of ruin from the air” president of the United States

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Harry Truman

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8
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Hitlers wife who commits suicide days after marrying him

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Eva Braun

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9
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Head of SS. Was in charge of the Holocaust

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Heinrich Himmer

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10
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“Suicide mission” bombers that strikes Tokyo

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James Doolittle

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11
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Commander of operation overload of Allied Power

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Dwight Eisenhower

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12
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Free’d the French. Led exile in French government

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Charles de Guille

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13
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Piloted during the Enola Gay, dropped the “little bomb”

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Paul Tibet’s

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14
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Militarist, rose to militarism in Japan

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Hideki Tojo

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15
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Escaped the Bataan Death March, promised his me. He would come back for them

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Douglas Mcarthor

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16
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Chief scientist who developed 3 bombs

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Robert Oppenheimer

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17
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German general fought in operation torch

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Erwin Rommel

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18
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President of the USA during World War II

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Franklin D Roosevelt

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19
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Dutch Christians who hid Jews

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Corrie Ten Boom

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20
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Formed after the war as a repayment to the Jews for the Holocaust

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Israel

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21
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Goal is to create an empire

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Germany

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22
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Goal was to create an African empire and restore the Roman Empire (part of axis powers)

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Italy

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23
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Goal was to create an Asian empire (axis powers)

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Japans

24
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Being bear by Japan “rape of Nanking” the forgotten Holocaust

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China

25
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“Code talkers” secret us code

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Navaho

26
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Japanese suicide planes used in desperation

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Kamikazes

27
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Japanese fight to the death of commit suicide

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Bushido

28
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Secret atomic bomb project

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Manhattan project

29
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Dropped the first atomic bomb known as “little bomb”

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Enola gay

30
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A program against the German Jewish community in Germany “night of the broken glass”

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Kristalnacht

31
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Anti-Jewish laws in Germany

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Nuremberg laws

32
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Hitlers greatest supporters trained to be good soldiers

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Hitler youth

33
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Amphibious operation that miraculously rescued the British and French armies

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Dunkirk

34
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US naval in pacific

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Pearl Harbor

35
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Biggest death camp in Poland

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Auschwitz

36
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City in Japan that was nuked by the USA

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Hiroshima

37
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Systematic mass slaughter of Jews and undesirables

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Holocaust

38
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Democracy is abolished and outlaws all political parties

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Third Reich

39
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“Lightning warfare” first bombs, then tanks, the soldiers

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Blitzkrieg

40
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America lended stuff (supplies) to other countries.

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Lend lease program

41
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Living space for the Germans

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Lebensraum

42
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Mobile killing unit

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Eizengrupoen

43
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Group of ships

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Convoy

44
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US would take an island and put a military base to take out other nearby islands

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Island hoping

45
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Bombing of English cities

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Blitz

46
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Japanese Americans. Anyone born in the US with Japanese parents

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Nisei

47
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Japanese navy is destroyed and the Philippine. Islands are liberated

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Leyte Gulf

48
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5 men raise the US flag on Mount Suribachi

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Iwo Jima

49
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Battle that resulted in Western Europe liberation from the nazis

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D-Day

50
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“Great surprise” Hitlers last offense of the war

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The bulge

51
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Key allied victory in Africa

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El Alamein

52
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Fought for control over the Russian oil fields

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Stalingrad

53
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“Life line of Great Britain” longest continuous battle of WWII/ most pivotal

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Atlantic

54
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Hitlers plan to invade and conquer Britain

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Britain

55
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US beats Japan. Turning point

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Midway

56
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60 month bloody battle

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Guadalcanal

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