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| Franklin D. Roosevelt | elected 4 times; led the US through the Great Depression and WWII |
| Dwight Eisenhower | led the Allied invations of North Africa; the D Day Invasion in France, and commanded the allied forces in Europe during WWII |
| Harry Truman | took over when FDR edied, led US through the end of WWII and beginning of Cold War |
| George Marshall | led US mobilization for WWII and helped plan the nation's war strategy; postwar European Recovery Program named Marshall Plan |
| George Patton | American general; known for tank warfare; involved in Normandy invasion and Battle of the Bulge during WWII |
| Adolf Hitler | dictator; led WWII invasion in Europe; believed in supremacy of German Aryan race and responsible for mass murder of millions of Jews |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian Fascist leader; alliance with Hitler in WWII |
| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan (1926-1989) who advocated the Japanese government's unconditional surrender that ended World War II |
| Yammamoto | Japanese admiral. He was responsible for planning the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. |
| Hideki Tojo | Japanese nationalist and general took control of Japan during WWII |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet Union dictator; led Soviet Union through WWII |
| Charles Degaulle | rench general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile |
| Erwin Rommel | German general during WWII; commanded the Afrika Korps and nicnamed Desert Fox for his brilliant leadership |
| Douglas MacArthur | American General commanded US troops in Southwest Pacific during WWII |
| Winston Churchill | British prime minister opposed policy of appeasement and led Great Britain through WWII |
| Bernard Montgomery | He was a senior British Army commander during World War 2. |
| Heinrich Himmler | was the Reich Leader (Reichsführer) of the ... as the second most powerful man in Germany during World War II. |
| Herman Goring | German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946). |
| Joseph Goebbels | German propaganda minister in Nazi Germany who persecuted the Jews (1897-1945). |
| Neville Chamberlin | British prime minister supported appeasement allowing Hitler to gain land and power in the 30's and later prepared Great Britain for war |
| Chester Nimitz | American admiral; he won major victories in Battle of the Coral Sea and Midway stopping the Japanese advance during WWII |
| Lend lease | program that gave gov power to make weapons available to Great Britain without regard for ability to pay for them |
| Hiroshima | A city in southwestern Japan, on island of Honshu; pop. 1,086,000; the target of the first atom bomb, dropped by US on August 6, 1945 |
| Nagasaki | A city in southwestern Japan, on western Kyushu island; pop. 445,000. On August 9, 1945, it became the target of the second atom bomb... |
| Holocaust | the killing of millions of Jews and others by Nazis during WWII |
| Battle of the Bulge | WWII battle between Germany and the Allied Forces; the German advance created a "bulge" in the Allied battle lines, but the Allies eventually prevailed |
| Blitzkrieg | a German word meaning lightning war |
| Pearl Harbor | A harbor in Hawaii, on the island of Oahu, the site of a major US naval base, where a surprise attack on December 7, 1941, by Japanese... |
| Munich Conference | Munich agreement. (1938) Settlement reached by Germany, France, Britain, and Italy permitting German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. |
| Czechoslovakia | A former country of central Europe. It was formed in 1918 from Czech- and Slovak-speaking territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Communists gained control of the government after World War II and stayed in power until late 1989 when demands for democratic political reform forced Communist leaders to resign |
| Appeasement | giving in to the demands of uncompromising powers to avoid war |
| Anschluss | The annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938. |
| Axis Powers | the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan in WWII |
| The allies | alliance between Britain, France and Russia |
| Dunkirk | A port in northern France; pop. 71,070; scene of the evacuation of 335,000 Allied troops in 1940 while under constant German attack |
| Normandy | It was the site of the World War II Allied invasion of German-occupied France in 1944 |
| Operation Overlord | the codename for the Allied invasion of mainland Europe in WWII, starting with the D-Day's landings |
| Vichy France | Vichy France, or the Vichy regime was the French government of 1940-1944 during the Nazi Germany occupation of World War II, |
| Free French | xxxxxxxxxx |
| Attack on Poland 9/1/39 | xxxxxxxxx |
| Midway | The Battle of Midway is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II.Between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet |
| Afrika Corps | The German Afrika Corps (Deutsches Afrikakorps, DAK), or the Afrika Korps as it was popularly called, was the German expeditionary force. |
| Stuka | A type of German military aircraft (the Junkers Ju 87) designed for dive-bombing, much used in the Second World War.. |
| SA | Italian Marines? |
| SS | German police |
| Battle of Britain | the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it. |
| Maginot Line | a string of bunkers and fortresses that lined the border between France and Germany during WWII |
| V-1 V-2 | German planes |
| Concentration camp | a detention site created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and in some cases kill civilians (WWII Jews) |
| Luftwaffe | German airforce |
| RAF | Royal Air Force |
| Island hopping | Island hopping was the American strategy in the Pacific during World War II. It involved a leapfrogging movement of American forces |
| Battle of the Atlantic | Battle of the Atlantic Contest in World War II between Britain (and later the U.S.) and Germany for the control of Atlantic sea routes. |
| Arsenal of Democracy | "The Arsenal of Democracy" was a slogan coined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Dec. 1940 promising to help the British |
| Manhattan Project | the top secret program to build an atomic bomb during WWII |
| Operaion Barbarosa | Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa, for Frederick I) was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet |
| Operations Sea Lion | Operation Sea Lion (Unternehmen Seelöwe) was Germany's plan to invade the United Kingdom during World War II, beginning in 1940 |
