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Charles de Gaulle | famous French general and politician during World War II |
Omar Bradley | commanded U.S. army during D-Day invasion |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | led Allied invasion of Europe and later became President |
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 | important British statesman |
Chiang Kai Shek | Chinese military leader |
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. |
Clement Attlee | British politician, served Winston Churchill |
Enrico Fermi | nuclear physicist who helped create A bomb |
Francisco Franco | army chief-of-staff for Spain |
Joseph Goebbels | Nazi leader |
Herman Goring | commander of German air force |
Heinrich Himmler | took control of the Gestapo |
Emperor Hirohito | Japanese emperor who claimed divinity |
Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay | commanded many U.S. bomber squadrons |
Douglas MacArthur | supreme commander of Allied war effort in the Pacific |
Gen George Marshall | given Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his contributions to Post War Europe |
Marshall Philippe Petain | French military leader |
Joachim von Ribbentrop | Hitler's foreign minister |
Hideki Tojo | later executed by his own country |
Yamamoto | commander-in-chief of Japanese navy |