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World War II Flashcards

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WW II: Leader of 1942 air raid on Tokyo

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Jimmy Doolittle

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WW II: U.S. Third Fleet commander

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William “Bull” Halsey

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WW II: Name for Nagasaki bomb

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Fat Man

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WW II: Code name for D-Day invasion

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Operation Overlord

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WW II: Postwar conference site of Truman - Stalin and Churchill

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Potsdam - Germany

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WW II: Agreement by the U.S. to aid Britain with war materials

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Lend/Lease

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WW II: Largest Japanese battleship

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Yamato

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WW II: Location of decisive allied victory in North Africa

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El-Alamein

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WW II: Nazi doctor known as the “Angel of Death”

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Josef Mengele

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WW II: Nazi air force reichsmarschall

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Herman Goering

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WW II: British leader who declared “Peace in Our Time”

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Neville Chamberlain

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WW II: Largest land battle in history - central Russia

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Battle of Kursk

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WW II: Allied Supreme Commander

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Dwight Eisenhower

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WW II: Country invaded by Germany in 1939

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Poland

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WW II: Code name for German invasion of the Soviet Union

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Operation Barbarossa

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WW II: Russian who signed non-agression pact with Hitler

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Vyachaslav Molotov

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WW II: American general of the 12th Army Group in Europe

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Omar Bradely

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WW II: Site where De Gaulle directed Free French governement

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Algiers

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WW II: “The Butcher of Lyon”

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Klaus Barbie

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WW II: Head of the Vichy French government and WW I hero

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Henri Petain

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WW II: Plan to rebuild Europe after the war

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Marshall Plan

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WW II: First conference site of Roosevelt - Stalin and Churchill

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Teheran - Iran

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WW II: Man who headed the Manhattan project

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Robert Openheimer

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WW II: British leader following Chamberlain

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Winston Churchill

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WW II: Nazi SS Chief

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Heinrich Himmler

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WW II: Nazi architect

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Albert Speer

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WW II: “The Napoleon of Luzon”

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Douglas MacArthur

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WW II: D-Day beach with the most casualties

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Omaha

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WW II: Island site of first major U.S. offensive against the Japanese

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Guadalcanal

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WW II: Army deserter executed in 1945

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Eddie Slovak

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WW II: V-J Day

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September 2nd 1945

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WW II: post-war prison where Rudolph Hess was held

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Spandau

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WW II: U.S. Pacific fleet commander

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Chester Nimitz

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WW II: Site of Roosevelt - Stalin and Churchill’s 1943 conference

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Yalta (in the Crimea)

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WW II: Country invaded by Italy in 1939

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WW II: Response given by General McAuliffe at Bastogne

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“Nuts!”

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WW II: Cooperation agreement signed by FDR and Churchill

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Atlantic Charter

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WW II: French port where 337K soldiers were evacuated in 1940

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WW II: French defense line facing Germany

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Maginot Line

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WW II: Enola Gay commander

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Paul W. Tibbetts

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WW II: Chief of the U.S. Army air forces

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Hap Arnold

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WW II: African site of Roosevelt and Churchill’s 1943 conference

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Casablanca - Morocco

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WW II: American general of the 3rd Army in Europe

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George S. Patton

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WW II: Seat of occupied French government

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WW II: Most decorated U.S. soldier

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Audie Murphy

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WW II: D-Day date

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June 6th 1944

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WW II: Nazi captured in Argentina and hanged in1962

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Adolf Eichmann

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WW II: Naval battle in Central pacific - 1942

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Battle of Midway

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WW II: Battleship where Japanese signed surrender

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WW II: German tank commander known as “Desert Fox”

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Erwin Rommel

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WW II: Term for a female U.S. factory worker

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Rosie the Riveter

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WW II: German pocket battleship scuttled in Montevideo harbor

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WW II: Hitler aide who parachuted into Scotland

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Rudolf Hess

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WW II: Nazi foreign minister

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Joachim von Ribbentrop

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WW II: Nazi propoganda chief

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Joseph Goebbels

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WW II: Code name for U.S. atomic bomb project

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Manhattan Project

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WW II: Japanese Admiral who planned attack on Pearl Harbor

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WW II: Japanese General who ordered attack on Pearl Harbor

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WW II: Plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

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WW II: Island where the U.S. flag was raised on Mt. Suribachi

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WW II: German battleship that sunk the HMS Hood

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WW II: Hitler’s mountain hideaway

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Berchtesgarten

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WW II: Air battle between the RAF and the Luftwaffe

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The Battle of Britain

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WW II: V-E Day

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May 8th 1945

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WW II: Naval battle off coast of Australia - 1942

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Battle of Coral Sea

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WW II: German “lightning war”

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Blitzkrieg

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WW II: German secret state police

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WW II: Hitler’s mistress

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WW II: Top French General

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Charles De Gaulle

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WW II: U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain at star of war

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Joseph Kennedy

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WW II: British general in North Africa

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Bernard Montgomery

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WW II: Pearl Harbor day

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December 7th 1941

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WW II: Part of Czechoslovakia ceded to Germany by Munich Pact

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Sudetenland

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WW II: U.S. journalist killed in the Pacific - 1945

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Ernie Pyle

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WW II: Island in Manila Bay lost to Japanese in 1942

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Corregidor

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WW II: Plane that dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki

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WW II: Germany’s final western offensive

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Battle of the Bulge

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WW II: Native American language used as code

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WW II: Head of Germany’s V2 rocket program

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Werner von Braun

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WW II: D-Day beaches

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Omaha - Sword - Juno - Gold - Utah

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WW II: Name for Hiroshima bomb

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Little Boy

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