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1
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Senate Special Committee
Investigating the Munitions
Industry

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Investigatory committee formed in 1935 to evaluate the impact of
arms industries in bringing the United States into World War I

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Security Council

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United Nations council on which United States, Soviet Union, China,
France, and Great Britain had veto power

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Schutzstaffel

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SS

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S.A.

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Paramilitary arm of the Nazi Party formed in the 1920s; superseded
by the SS

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ABDACOM

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British, Dutch, Australian and American military command in
Southeast Asia created in January 1942; failed to respond effectively
in the Battle of the Java Sea

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Afrika Korps

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German force in North Africa led by Erwin Rommel; landed in Libya
in February 1941 and advanced rapidly into Egypt

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Allied Control Council

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Unified Allied authority charged with overseeing denazification in
Germany after the war

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Big Four

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Collective term for France, Great Britain, Italy, and United States, the
main negotiators of the World War I peace treaties

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Blackshirts

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Italian fascist militias; staged the March on Rome in October 1922

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British Expeditionary Force

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British military force sent to continental Europe to defend against
German invasion in 1940; evacuated via Dunkirk after Germany
overran most of France

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Brownshirts

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SA

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Central Powers

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Defeated alliance in World War I composed of Germany, AustriaHungary,
the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria

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Chetniks

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Serbian loyalist movement that resisted German occupation during
World War II

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Chindits

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Commando groups that infiltrated Japanese lines in Burma during
World War II

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Conservative Party

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Winston Churchill’s political party; voted out of office shortly before
the Potsdam Conference

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Convention People’s Party

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Gold Coast independence movement party founded by Kwame

Nkrumah

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17
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Einsatzgruppen

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Mobile commandos formed after the Soviet invasion to exterminate
Jews behind frontlines

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18
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Entente

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Victorious alliance in World War I composed of Great Britain, France,
Russia, Italy, Japan, Serbia, Belgium, and the United States

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German Workers Party

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Predecessor of the Nazi Party founded by Anton Drexler in 1919

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20
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Hitler Youth

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Nazi group established after 1933 to inculcate Nazi ideology from
young

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Imperial Cabinet

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Japanese leadership that met on August 9, 1945 and agreed to

Japanese surrender after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki

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International Red Cross

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Requested to investigate the Katyn Forest massacre by the Polish
government in exile, for which Stalin severed ties with the
organization

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Jewish Councils

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Puppet Jewish administrations formed in Nazi ghettos

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Jewish Fighting Organization

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Leading Warsaw ghetto resistance movement led by Mordecai

Anielewicz; participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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Jewish Military Union

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Warsaw ghetto resistance movement with ties to the Polish Home
Army

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Joint Army and Navy Board

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American committee that developed war plans in 1903

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Joint Planning Board

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American committee that developed Rainbow Plans in 1939

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Labour Party

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British political party voted into office in 1945, shortly before the
Potsdam Conference

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League of German Girls

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Nazi group established after 1933 to inculcate Nazi ideology from
young

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30
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London Poles

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Anti-communist government in exile of Poland

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Lublin Poles

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Soviet-supported government of Poland

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32
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Luftwaffe

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German air force; disbanded under the Versailles Treaty; played a
major role in the Battle of Britain involving dogfights with the RAF
and bombing of London

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Malayan Communist Party

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Independence movement in Malaya that fought against British rule;
attacks prompted declaration of Malayan Emergency in 1948

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National Fascist Party

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Italian fascist party established in 1921; led by Benito Mussolini

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35
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National Socialist German

Workers Party

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German party led by Hitler that carried out anti-Semitic policies and
later the Holocaust; launched World War II with the aim of creating
a global Aryan empire

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36
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Nationalist

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Chinese faction led by Chiang Kai-Shek; governed China in the
1930s; fought Japan in World War II in an uneasy alliance with the
Communist forces, the Second National Front; subsequently lost the
Chinese civil war

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37
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Nye Committee

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Senate Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry

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38
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Political Department

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German military branch that ordered Adolf Hitler to monitor the
German Workers’ Party in 1919

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39
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Qing Dynasty

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Last dynasty of China whose heir Pu Yi became Manchukuo ruler in
1931

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40
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red army

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soviet army

41
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Reich Security Main Office

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Nazi German agency led by Reinhard Heydrich overseeing Jewish
roundups in Poland

42
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royal air force

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British air force; won the Battle of Britain

43
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Yamamoto Isoroku

A

Japanese admiral who planned Pearl Harbor attack and invasion of
Midway Island; led surface fleet in latter attack; subsequently
withdrew Japanese fleet after the battle for Guadalcanal; shot down
over Papua New Guinea after Operation I in April 1943

44
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Woodrow Wilson

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American president; participated in Versailles peace conference in
1919; sought “peace without victory”, democracy, and selfdetermination;
advocated formation of League of Nations

45
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Winston Churchill

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Prime minister of Great Britain; succeeded Chamberlain in 1940

46
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William Slim

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Lieutenant General; commander of British Fourteenth Army in Burma

47
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William Halsey

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American admiral; commanded convoy involved in the Doolittle Raid;
ordered the B-25s’ early launch on April 18; Third Fleet commander in
Operation Forager

48
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Wilhelm Keitel

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Defendant in the Nuremberg trials

49
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Werner von Braun

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German scientist who developed the V-1 and V-2 missiles with Walter
Dornberger; given refuge in United States after World War II

50
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Walter Ulbricht

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Eastern European communist leader given safe passage to the Soviet
zone of occupation after World Wari II

51
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Walter Dornberger

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German scientist; developed V-1 and V-2 missiles with Werner von
Braun

52
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Vladimir Lenin

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Leader of the Russian Revolution; died in 1924

53
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Vittorio Orlando

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Italian leader; participated in Versailles peace conference in 1919

54
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Victor Emmanuel III

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King of Italy; invited Mussolini to form a government in October 1922
after the March on Rome; had Mussolini arrested on July 25, 1943 after
the Allies invaded Sicily

55
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Ushijima Mitsuru

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Japanese general; led defense of Okinawa

56
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Tomoyuki Yamashita

A

Japanese general charged with atrocities in the Philippines after World
War II in the IMTFE; led Japanese offensives in 1942

57
Q

Syngman Rhee

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President of the provisional government of the Republic of Korea;
dictator of South Korea

58
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Sukarno

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Independence movement leader in Indonesia

59
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Subhas Chandra Bose

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Indian nationalist; founded the pro-Axis Azad Hind and Indian
National Army; killed in plane crash over Taiwan

60
Q

Simon Bolivar Buckner

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American commander of Operation Iceberg

61
Q

Schuschnigg

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Chancellor of Austria; resigned after Germany invaded in 1938 to
install Nazi factions within Austria in power

62
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Saboru Kurusu

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Japanese representative who signed the Tripartite Pact

63
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Rudolf Hess

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Defendant in the Nuremberg trials

64
Q

Robert Maddox

A

Historian who criticized Gar Alperovitz’s interpretation of the atomic
arms race

65
Q

Richard Wagner

A

Father-in-law of Houston Chamberlain; prominent German composer
and anti-Semite

66
Q

Reinhard Heydrich

A

Chief of Reich Security Main Office; leading administrator of the
Holocaust

67
Q

Raymond Spruance

A

American admiral; led fleet in the Battle of Midway; Fifth Fleet
commander in Operation Forager

68
Q

Raphael Lemkin

A

Polish-Jewish lawyer; first used the term genocide to describe the
Holocaust in 1944

69
Q

Radhabinod Pal

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Representative of India at the Tokyo War Crimes Trial; criticized the
court’s bias towards the prosecution

70
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Pu Yi

A

Last ruler of China’s Qing dynasty; installed as Manchukuo ruler
following the Japanese invasion of 1931

71
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Pietro Badoglio

A

Italian marshal; replaced Mussolini as prime minister in July 1943;
secretly opened negotiations with Allies

72
Q

Philipp Scheidemann

A

German chancellor who resigned over the terms of the Treaty of
Versailles

73
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Omar Bradley

A

American commander who led Operation Cobra, the 1944 offensive
aiming to break the stalemate in Normandy

74
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Nomura Kichisaburo

A

Japanese admiral appointed ambassador to United States in February
1941; represented moderate views on the war

75
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Neville Chamberlain

A

British Prime Minister who instituted the policy of appeasement at the
Munich conference, for which he received much criticism and
eventually resigned in favor of Winston Churchill after Germany
invaded Denmark and Norway in 1940

76
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

A

Muslim leader of independent Pakistan

77
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Mohandas Gandhi

A

Independence leader of India; led the Quit India movement; inspired
Kwame Nkrumah’s Convention People’s Party

78
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Massahru Homma

A

Japanese general charged with crimes against humanity after World
War II in the IMTFE

79
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Martin Bormann

A

Defendant in the Nuremberg trials; sentenced to death in absentia
and whose body was found in Berlin in 1972

80
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Mark Clark

A

Commander of the American Fifth Army; directed landings at Salerno,
southern Italy, in September 1943

81
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Marc A. Mitscher

A

American navy captain; skipper of the USS Hornet involved in the
Doolittle Raid

82
Q

Mao Zedong

A

Leader of Chinese Communist forces; fought Japan in World War II
and subsequent defeated Nationalist Chinese forces in 1949

83
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Mamoru Shigemitsu

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Japanese foreign minister; signed Japanese surrender document on
USS Missour

84
Q

Louis Mountbatten

A

Admiral and British Lord; overall Allied commander in the BurmeseIndian
theater

85
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Leslie Groves

A

American brigadier general; oversaw the Manhattan Project

86
Q

Pierre Laval

A

French government minister who succeeded Edouard Daladier after
the Winter War; prime minister of Vichy France; tried for treason after
World War II

87
Q

Kwame Nkrumah

A

Gold Coast independence leader; founder of the Convention People’s
Party; first prime minister and president of Ghana

88
Q

Kuribayashi Tadamichi

A

Lieutenant General who led the Japanese defense of Iwo Jima

89
Q

Kim Il-Sung

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Communist leader of North Korea

90
Q

Karl Dönitz

A

German admiral named in Hitler’s last testament as his successor;
surrendered on May 7

91
Q

Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Last ruler of Germany; abdicated on November 9, 1918

92
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Jurgen von Arnim

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German commander; defended the western Atlas Mountains in 1943

93
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Julius Streicher

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Defendant in the Nuremberg trials

94
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Joseph Stalin

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Soviet Union’s leader after 1924; established totalitarian state, purging
political rivals in show trials; articulated philosophy of “socialism in
one country” allied with Germany to divide Poland in 1939

95
Q

Joseph Arthur, Comte de

Gobineau

A

Early proponent of Social Darwinism; wrote Essay on the Inequality of
the Human

96
Q

Josef Tito

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Leader of the communist partisan resistance to German occupation of
Yugoslavia; post-war leader of the country

97
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Josef Mengele

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Nazi German doctor who oversaw human experimentation in

concentration camps

98
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John Lucas

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Field commander of joint Allied landing at Anzio in January 1944

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