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APEH exam- WWII People
part 13 (1939-1945)
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History
10th Grade
04/14/2007

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Marshall Petain
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(1856-1951) Established the Vichy Government in France
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Charles De Gaulle
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(1890-1951) led the french resistance aganist the Vichy Government. Escaped to England and worked to liberate France.
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Hermann Goering
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(1893-1946)leader of the German Luftwaffe (air force) who order the bombings of British cities
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Bernard Montgomery
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(1887-1944) British General who, with the help of Amerian forces, defeated German and Italian forces at El Alameinin May 1942
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Erwin Rommel
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(1891-1944) General of the German an Italian forces who was known as the edesert fox. defeated by the British and Americans in Africa in May 1942
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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(1890-1969) At the time, was an American general who took command of joint Anglo-American forces in Morocco and Algiers. helped the British defeat German and Italy at the battle at Almein in May 1942.
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Douglas MacArthur
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(1880-1964) American General who launched the first offenstve at Guadalcanal in Agust 1941. Begining of a strategy that wanted to capture Japanesse islands to serve as stepping stones for a direct invasion of Japan
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George Patton
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(1885-1945) General in cahrge of the Allied troops who invaded Italy from July 1943 to August 1944. forced Mussolini to surrender (Naazi's helped im return to power by September)
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