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| Charles de Gaulle | famous French general and politician during World War II |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | led Allied invasion of Europe and later became President |
| 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. |
| Francisco Franco | army chief-of-staff for Spain |
| Herman Goring | commander of German air force |
| Heinrich Himmler | took control of the Gestapo |
| Emperor Hirohito | Japanese emperor who claimed divinity |
| 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 |
| English Channel | What body of water did the Allied forces have to cross to invade France? |
| Utah Beach and Omaha | What beaches did the U.S. 1st Army invade? |
| deaths of more than 6 million Jews at the hands of the Nazis | What event in World War II became known as the Holocaust? |
| Why did the "Big Three" Allied leaders meet in the Soviet Union resort of Yalta? | to make plans for Europe after the war ended |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian dictator began political fascism |
| Which Allies had not fallen to Germany when the United States entered the war in December 1941? | the Soviet Union and Great Britian |
| What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific? | D-Day |
| What event plunged most of Europe into World War II? | Hitler's seizure of Poland |
| December 1941 the Japanese attacked this | Pearl Harbor |
| United States used atomic bombs against Japan because | invading Japan would cost too many lives |
| Which country did Japan invade in 1931? | China |
