| A | B |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | commander of the Allied forces in Europe |
| Adolph Hitler | most notorious figure of the 20th century |
| A.C. McAuliffe | one word response to Germans, "Nuts!" |
| Bernard Law Montgomery | British general |
| George S. Patton | "Compared to war,all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance". |
| Erwin Rommel | displayed technical brilliance in North Africa |
| Neville Chamberlain | Thought appeasement would work at the Munich Conference |
| Winston Churchill | led Great Britain during World War II |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 32nd president of the U.S. |
| Stalin | Communist dictator of the U.S.S.R. |
| Emperor Hirohito | Japanese emperor who claimed divinity |
| Douglas MacArthur | Commanded the Allied forces in the southwestern Pacific during World War II |
| A. Philip Randolph | African American labor leader whose efforts led the U.S. government to prohibit racial discrimination in defense plants |
| Harry Truman | became President of the United States near the end of World War II |
| braceros | a 1942 treaty allowed these Mexican farm workers to come to the U. S. during the war |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots who crashed their planes into Allied ships |
| Tuskegee Airmen | A group of African American pilots who were highly decorated |
| Blue Devils | Members of a famous Hispanic Unit who served in the armed forces |
| Navajo Code Talkers | American Indian soldiers who were part of the Marine Signal Corps, which sent coded messages |
| Benito Mussolini | totalitarian leader of Italy |