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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
Heinrich Himmler
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WW II: Nazi architect
Albert Speer
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WW II: "The Napoleon of Luzon"
Douglas MacArthur
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WW II: D-Day beach with the most casualties
Omaha
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WW II: Island site of first major U.S. offensive against the Japanese
Guadalcanal
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WW II: Army deserter executed in 1945
Eddie Slovak
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WW II: V-J Day
September 2nd 1945
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WW II: post-war prison where Rudolph Hess was held
Spandau
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WW II: U.S. Pacific fleet commander
Chester Nimitz
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WW II: Site of Roosevelt - Stalin and Churchill's 1943 conference
Yalta (in the Crimea)
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WW II: Country invaded by Italy in 1939
Albania
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WW II: Response given by General McAuliffe at Bastogne
"Nuts!"
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WW II: Cooperation agreement signed by FDR and Churchill
Atlantic Charter
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WW II: French port where 337K soldiers were evacuated in 1940
Dunkirk
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WW II: French defense line facing Germany
Maginot Line
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WW II: Enola Gay commander
Paul W. Tibbetts
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WW II: Chief of the U.S. Army air forces
Hap Arnold
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WW II: African site of Roosevelt and Churchill's 1943 conference
Casablanca - Morocco
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WW II: American general of the 3rd Army in Europe
George S. Patton
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WW II: Seat of occupied French government
Vichy
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WW II: Most decorated U.S. soldier
Audie Murphy
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WW II: D-Day date
June 6th 1944
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WW II: Nazi captured in Argentina and hanged in1962
Adolf Eichmann
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WW II: Naval battle in Central pacific - 1942
Battle of Midway
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WW II: Battleship where Japanese signed surrender
Missouri
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WW II: German tank commander known as "Desert Fox"
Erwin Rommel
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WW II: Term for a female U.S. factory worker
Rosie the Riveter
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WW II: German pocket battleship scuttled in Montevideo harbor
Graf Spee
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WW II: Hitler aide who parachuted into Scotland
Rudolf Hess
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WW II: Nazi foreign minister
Joachim von Ribbentrop
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WW II: Nazi propoganda chief
Joseph Goebbels
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WW II: Code name for U.S. atomic bomb project
Manhattan Project
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WW II: Japanese Admiral who planned attack on Pearl Harbor
Yamamoto
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WW II: Japanese General who ordered attack on Pearl Harbor
Tojo
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WW II: Plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Enola Gay
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WW II: Island where the U.S. flag was raised on Mt. Suribachi
Iwo Jima
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WW II: German battleship that sunk the HMS Hood
Bismarck
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WW II: Hitler's mountain hideaway
Berchtesgarten
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WW II: Air battle between the RAF and the Luftwaffe
The Battle of Britain
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WW II: V-E Day
May 8th 1945
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WW II: Naval battle off coast of Australia - 1942
Battle of Coral Sea
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WW II: German "lightning war"
Blitzkrieg
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WW II: German secret state police
Gestapo
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WW II: Hitler's mistress
Eva Braun
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WW II: Top French General
Charles De Gaulle
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WW II: U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain at star of war
Joseph Kennedy
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WW II: British general in North Africa
Bernard Montgomery
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WW II: Pearl Harbor day
December 7th 1941
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WW II: Part of Czechoslovakia ceded to Germany by Munich Pact
Sudetenland
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WW II: U.S. journalist killed in the Pacific - 1945
Ernie Pyle
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WW II: Island in Manila Bay lost to Japanese in 1942
Corregidor
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WW II: Plane that dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki
Bockscar
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WW II: Germany's final western offensive
Battle of the Bulge
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WW II: Native American language used as code
Navajo
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WW II: Head of Germany's V2 rocket program
Werner von Braun
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WW II: D-Day beaches
Omaha - Sword - Juno - Gold - Utah
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WW II: Name for Hiroshima bomb
Little Boy

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