World War 2 Flashcards

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Allied Supreme Commander

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Dwight Eisenhower

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American General of the 12th Army Group in Europe

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Omar Bradley

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American General of the 3rd Army in Europe

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George S. Patton

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British General in North Africa

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Bernard Montgomery

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Top French General

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Charles De Gaulle

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British Leader who Delcared “Peace in our Time”

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Neville Chamberlain

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German Tank Commander Known as the “Desert Fox”

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Erwin Rommel

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British Leader Following CHamberlain

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Winston Churchill

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Nazi SS Chief

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Heinrich Himmler

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Nazi Air Force Reischmarschall

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Herman Goering

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Nazi Propaganda Chief

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Joseph Goebbles

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12
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Nazi Architect

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Albert Speer

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Nazi Foreign Minister

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Joachim Von Ribbentrop

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The Butcher of Lyon

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Klaus Barbie

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Hitler Aid Who parachuted into scotland

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Rudolf Hess

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Nazi Doctor Known as the Angel of Death

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Josef Mengele

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Nazi Captures in Argentina and Hanged in 1962

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Adolf Eichmann

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18
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Hitler’s Mistress

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Ava Braun

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19
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German Secret State Police

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Gestapo

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20
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Chief of the US Army Air Forces

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Hap Arnold

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21
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US Ambassador to GB at the start of the War

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Joseph Kennedy

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22
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Seat of Occupied French Gov’t

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Vichy

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Head of the Vichy French Gov’t and WWI Hero

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Henri Petain

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French Defense Line Facing Germany

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Maginot Line

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Part of Czechoslovakia ceded to Germany by Munich Pact
Sudetenland
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Country Divided by German and Soviet Union
Poland
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Russian who signed non-aggression pact with Hitler
Vyacheslav Molotov
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Head of German V2 Rocket Program
Werner Von Braun
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Country Invaded by Italy in 1939
Albania
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French Port where 337,000 Soldier were evacuated in 1940
Dunkirk
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Cooperation Agreement signed by FDR and Churchill
Atlantic Charter
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Agreement by the US to Aid Britain with War Material
Lend/Lease
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Hitler's Mountain Hideaway
Berchtesgarten
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German "Lightning War'
Blitzkrieg
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German "Pocket" Battleship Scuttled in Montevideo Harbor
Graf Spee
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German Battleship that sunk the HMS Hood
Bismark
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Location of Decisive Allied Victory in North Africa
El Alamein
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Air Battle Between RAF and the Luftwaffe
The Battle of Britain
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Code Name for German Invasion of Soviet Union
Operation Barbarossa
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Code Name for D-Day invasion
Operation overlord
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D-Day Date
June 6, 1944
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D-Day beaches
Omaha, Sword, Juno, Gold, Utah
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Beach with Most Casualties
Omaha
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French Internal Anti-Nazi Effort
Resistance
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Germany's Final Western offensive
Battle of the Bulge
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City Centered Around Battle of the Bulge
Bastogne
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Response Given by General McAuliffe at Bastogne
NUTS!
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Largest Land Battle in History, Central Asia
Battle of Kurs
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Most-Decorated US Solider
Audie Murphy
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Japanese General who Ordered attack on Pearl Harbor
Tojo
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Japanese Admiral who planned attach on Pearl Harbor
Yamamota
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Largest Japanese Battle Ship
Yamato
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Pearl Harbor Day
December 7, 1941
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US Pacific Fleet Commander
Chester Nimitz
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US THird Fleet Commander
William "Bull" Halsey
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The Napoleon of Luzon
Douglas Macarthur
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Fortress Island in Manila Bay lost to Japanese in 1942
Corregidor
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Island site of first major us offensive against the Japanese
Guadalcanal
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Five Brother Killed in Battle of Guadalcanal
(Fighting) Sullivans
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Navel Battle off the coast of autralia, 1942
Battle of Coral Sea
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Naval Battle in Central Pacific, 1942
Battle of midway
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Largest Sea Battle in History off the coast of the philippines
Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Island where the US flag was raised in mt suribachi
Iwo Jima
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Leader of 1942 Air Raid on Tokyo
Jimmy Doolittle
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Code Name for US Atomic Bomb Project
Manhattan Project
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man Who Headed the Manhattan Project
Robert Oppenheimer
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Plane that dropped the ataomic Bomb on Hiroshima
Enola Gay
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Enola Gay Commander
Paul W. Tibbetts
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Name for Hiroshima Bomb
Little Boy
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Name for Nagasaki Bomb
Fat Man
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Plane that dropped atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
Bock's Car
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First Conference Site of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill
Teheran, Iran
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African Site of Roosevelt and Churchill's 1943 Conference
Casablanca, Morocco
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Asian Site of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill's 1945 Conference
Yalta (in the crimea)
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July 1945 Conference of Truman, Stalin and Churchill
Potsdam (Germany)
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Site Where De Gaulle Directed Free French Gov't
Algiers
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Term for a Female US Factory Worker
Rosie the Riveter
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US Journalist Killed in the Pacific, 1945
Ernie Pyle (Battle Okinawa)
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Native American Language used a code
Navajo
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Battleship where Japanese Signed Surrender
Missouri
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V-E (Victory in Europe) Day
May 8, 1945
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V-J (Victory over Japan) Day
August 14, 1945
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Plan to Rebuild Europe after the way
Marshall Plan
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Army Deserter Executed in 1945
Simon Weisenthal
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Post-War Prison Where Rudolph Hess was held
Spandau