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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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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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Hitler’s Mistress

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Ava Braun

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German Secret State Police

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Gestapo

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Chief of the US Army Air Forces

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Hap Arnold

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US Ambassador to GB at the start of the War

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Joseph Kennedy

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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

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Sudetenland

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Country Divided by German and Soviet Union

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Poland

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Russian who signed non-aggression pact with Hitler

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Vyacheslav Molotov

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Head of German V2 Rocket Program

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Werner Von Braun

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Country Invaded by Italy in 1939

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Albania

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French Port where 337,000 Soldier were evacuated in 1940

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Dunkirk

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Cooperation Agreement signed by FDR and Churchill

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Atlantic Charter

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Agreement by the US to Aid Britain with War Material

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Lend/Lease

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Hitler’s Mountain Hideaway

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Berchtesgarten

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German “Lightning War’

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Blitzkrieg

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German “Pocket” Battleship Scuttled in Montevideo Harbor

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Graf Spee

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German Battleship that sunk the HMS Hood

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Bismark

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Location of Decisive Allied Victory in North Africa

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El Alamein

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Air Battle Between RAF and the Luftwaffe

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The Battle of Britain

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Code Name for German Invasion of Soviet Union

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Operation Barbarossa

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Code Name for D-Day invasion

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Operation overlord

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D-Day Date

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June 6, 1944

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D-Day beaches

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Omaha, Sword, Juno, Gold, Utah

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Beach with Most Casualties

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Omaha

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French Internal Anti-Nazi Effort

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Resistance

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Germany’s Final Western offensive

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Battle of the Bulge

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City Centered Around Battle of the Bulge

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Bastogne

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Response Given by General McAuliffe at Bastogne

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NUTS!

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Largest Land Battle in History, Central Asia

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Battle of Kurs

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Most-Decorated US Solider

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Audie Murphy

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Japanese General who Ordered attack on Pearl Harbor

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Tojo

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Japanese Admiral who planned attach on Pearl Harbor

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Yamamota

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Largest Japanese Battle Ship

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Yamato

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Pearl Harbor Day

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December 7, 1941

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US Pacific Fleet Commander

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Chester Nimitz

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US THird Fleet Commander

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William “Bull” Halsey

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The Napoleon of Luzon

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Douglas Macarthur

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Fortress Island in Manila Bay lost to Japanese in 1942

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Corregidor

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Island site of first major us offensive against the Japanese

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Guadalcanal

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Five Brother Killed in Battle of Guadalcanal

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(Fighting) Sullivans

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Navel Battle off the coast of autralia, 1942

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Battle of Coral Sea

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Naval Battle in Central Pacific, 1942

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Battle of midway

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Largest Sea Battle in History off the coast of the philippines

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

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Island where the US flag was raised in mt suribachi

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Iwo Jima

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Leader of 1942 Air Raid on Tokyo

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Jimmy Doolittle

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Code Name for US Atomic Bomb Project

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Manhattan Project

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man Who Headed the Manhattan Project

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Robert Oppenheimer

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Plane that dropped the ataomic Bomb on Hiroshima

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Enola Gay

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Enola Gay Commander

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Paul W. Tibbetts

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Name for Hiroshima Bomb

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Little Boy

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Name for Nagasaki Bomb

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Fat Man

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Plane that dropped atomic Bomb on Nagasaki

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Bock’s Car

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First Conference Site of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill

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Teheran, Iran

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African Site of Roosevelt and Churchill’s 1943 Conference

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Casablanca, Morocco

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Asian Site of Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill’s 1945 Conference

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Yalta (in the crimea)

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July 1945 Conference of Truman, Stalin and Churchill

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Potsdam (Germany)

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Site Where De Gaulle Directed Free French Gov’t

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Algiers

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Term for a Female US Factory Worker

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Rosie the Riveter

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US Journalist Killed in the Pacific, 1945

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Ernie Pyle (Battle Okinawa)

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Native American Language used a code

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Navajo

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Battleship where Japanese Signed Surrender

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Missouri

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V-E (Victory in Europe) Day

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May 8, 1945

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V-J (Victory over Japan) Day

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August 14, 1945

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Plan to Rebuild Europe after the way

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Marshall Plan

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Army Deserter Executed in 1945

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Simon Weisenthal

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Post-War Prison Where Rudolph Hess was held

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Spandau

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