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Who was Adolfo Hitler

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A leader of Nazi Germany, wanted to create the perfect race-Aryans blond hair
And blue eyed people

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Who was Neville chamberlain

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Prime minister of Britain

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Joseph Stalin

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Dictator of Soviet Russia, allied with Germany ad first then was betrayed

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Benito Mussolini

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Wanted to make the Mediterranean a Italian lake, allied with Hitler

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Erwin Rommel

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“The desert fox” General of hitters forces, pushed the British into caro and Egypt.

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Winston Churchill

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Replaced chamberlain, beleined in fighting till death known for flashing peace signs

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FDR

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President US 193 32, suffered from polio. Was president most of ww2

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Dwight Eisenhower

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American general toot control of join t british/american army, trapped Rommel “ groups until surrender

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Douglas MacArthur

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General of the US marines led victory at Guadalcanal

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Harry, S, Truman

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President after Rosevelt, made desiciando use atomic bomb

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Invasion of Poland

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November 1st 1939 Nazis force storm Poland- start of hitters blitzkrieg or lightning war

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Miracle of dunkirk

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Ships rescuing France and American groups from English Chanels

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Fall of France

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June 22nd 1940, France surrenders t Germany

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London blitzi or sea lion

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August 12th 1940 Hitler sends first wave of do English coast bombers

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Pearl Harbor

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December 7 + 1941 Japan attracted Pearl Harbor for declared war new day

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Invasion of Italy

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British + American army takes over Italy

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D-day

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June 6th 1944- Allies land on Normandy’s beaches

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Bataan death march

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March of prisoners of War from Bataan to balinga

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Battle of the bulge

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Attach in Ardenny forests I hitters last offensive attack.

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Elbe day

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Soviet + American groups meet at Elbe river axis armies A surrender

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V-e day

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Victory in Europe day Hitler cumits suicide

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Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Us dropped atomic bombs, to show power or end War

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Greater East Asia co-prosperity\sphere

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A Japanese front no build empire

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Total war

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Comities all recourses towards war effort

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