Test Flashcards

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Declared himself “Fuhrer” absolute dictator

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Adolf Hitler

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2
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Comes to power after death of Vladimir Lenin

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Joseph Stalin

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Once said “you were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war”

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Winston Churchill

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Admiral of the Japanese naval. Plans to attack

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Isoruko Yamamoto

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Germán Protestant Pastor who gave his life saving Jews . Wrote “the cost of decipleship”

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Jewish girl who wrote a diary about her life

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Anne frank

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7
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Warns Japan about new weapon “a rain of ruin from the air” president of the United States

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Harry Truman

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Hitlers wife who commits suicide days after marrying him

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Eva Braun

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9
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Head of SS. Was in charge of the Holocaust

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Heinrich Himmer

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10
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“Suicide mission” bombers that strikes Tokyo

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James Doolittle

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11
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Commander of operation overload of Allied Power

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Dwight Eisenhower

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12
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Free’d the French. Led exile in French government

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Charles de Guille

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13
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Piloted during the Enola Gay, dropped the “little bomb”

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Paul Tibet’s

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Militarist, rose to militarism in Japan

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Hideki Tojo

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Escaped the Bataan Death March, promised his me. He would come back for them

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Douglas Mcarthor

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16
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Chief scientist who developed 3 bombs

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Robert Oppenheimer

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17
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German general fought in operation torch

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Erwin Rommel

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18
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President of the USA during World War II

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Franklin D Roosevelt

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19
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Dutch Christians who hid Jews

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Corrie Ten Boom

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20
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Formed after the war as a repayment to the Jews for the Holocaust

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Israel

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21
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Goal is to create an empire

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Germany

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22
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Goal was to create an African empire and restore the Roman Empire (part of axis powers)

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Italy

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23
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Goal was to create an Asian empire (axis powers)

24
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Being bear by Japan “rape of Nanking” the forgotten Holocaust

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“Code talkers” secret us code
Navaho
26
Japanese suicide planes used in desperation
Kamikazes
27
Japanese fight to the death of commit suicide
Bushido
28
Secret atomic bomb project
Manhattan project
29
Dropped the first atomic bomb known as “little bomb”
Enola gay
30
A program against the German Jewish community in Germany “night of the broken glass”
Kristalnacht
31
Anti-Jewish laws in Germany
Nuremberg laws
32
Hitlers greatest supporters trained to be good soldiers
Hitler youth
33
Amphibious operation that miraculously rescued the British and French armies
Dunkirk
34
US naval in pacific
Pearl Harbor
35
Biggest death camp in Poland
Auschwitz
36
City in Japan that was nuked by the USA
Hiroshima
37
Systematic mass slaughter of Jews and undesirables
Holocaust
38
Democracy is abolished and outlaws all political parties
Third Reich
39
“Lightning warfare” first bombs, then tanks, the soldiers
Blitzkrieg
40
America lended stuff (supplies) to other countries.
Lend lease program
41
Living space for the Germans
Lebensraum
42
Mobile killing unit
Eizengrupoen
43
Group of ships
Convoy
44
US would take an island and put a military base to take out other nearby islands
Island hoping
45
Bombing of English cities
Blitz
46
Japanese Americans. Anyone born in the US with Japanese parents
Nisei
47
Japanese navy is destroyed and the Philippine. Islands are liberated
Leyte Gulf
48
5 men raise the US flag on Mount Suribachi
Iwo Jima
49
Battle that resulted in Western Europe liberation from the nazis
D-Day
50
“Great surprise” Hitlers last offense of the war
The bulge
51
Key allied victory in Africa
El Alamein
52
Fought for control over the Russian oil fields
Stalingrad
53
“Life line of Great Britain” longest continuous battle of WWII/ most pivotal
Atlantic
54
Hitlers plan to invade and conquer Britain
Britain
55
US beats Japan. Turning point
Midway
56
60 month bloody battle
Guadalcanal