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| The prime minister of Iraq around 1940, he was an Arab nationalist who attempted to remove the British from his country |
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| A group of Mexican pilots fighting alongside the Americans. After America declared war, so did Mexico and they volunteered to fight. |
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| An Indian revolutionary who was the leader of the Indian independence movement who fought against Britain and other Western allies during WWII |
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| Five (possibly six) men who attended Cambridge university and were recruited there to be spies for the Soviet Union. They worked well into the 50s and slowly were discovered. It is disputed whether all have been exposed. |
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| A black French poet who challenged the cultural status quo and alienation present in the Martinique (French Caribbean Colonialized Island) society in his writings. |
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| A Chinese politician during the WWII era who was the first and final president of China and a collaborator with the Japanese |
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| He was part of the nationalist movement in China. He was the leader during the Chinese civil war against the communists |
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In an attempt to control the women that came in contact with soldiers, the Japanese government set up a system of comfort women - their human rights were violated with cleanliness checks and daily rapings.
They were referred to as "nurses" and "military personnel".
They were paid based on the status of the men they served.
There are said to be over 100,000
They were Koreans and poor Japanese girls
There was a large coverup because quickly after the war the Americans needed the Japanese to be an ally |
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He wrote "Fanfar for the Common Man" - a great American composer
His parents were Jewish and he was raised in Brooklyn
In the Soviet Union and in Fascist empires, the common man was not as important as things like class and nation - embodied the spirit |
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A french commander during WWII who later became the president of France. He was opposed to appeasing the Nazis and fought for France's independence
Used many African soldiers but once France was liberated, he wanted to make it seem like the white Frenchmen had fought for the independence to get their masculinity back and so that they didn't owe anything to the Africans |
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| She was a German singer who moved to Hollywood. She wrote "Lili Marleen," a song that both sides fighting in African would listen to because it captures the heartache of the soldiers missing their women at home |
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There was a world series in 1944 - Joe DiMaggio played but was booed because he was an able young man who had not enlisted in the army
Many famous athletes joined the army but simply played their sport on army teams |
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An admiral for the Germans during the war - developed "wolf pack" tactics - submarines would work in large pack stretched out across the ocean against the British. It was very effective.
He issued order 154 - they were to rescue no one, have no care to the soldiers or boats, care only for their own boats and move on to their next target - against the codes of war
For a while the allies struggled to protect their boats but eventually with better technology (sonar and radar) they were able to turn the tide |
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He was a black French colonial administrator and a leader of the free French movement
He supported the education of Africans and the preservation of African culture |
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He was in charge of getting people to the camps
He was originally a young and unimportant bureaucrat but he took this position because he thought it was a good way to move up |
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A victim of Thika syndrome - he died from severe jaundice (post arsenical)
There were 191 similar cases - many were thought to be cases of syphilis
People would be injected with arsenic, cyanide, or mercury - the idea was to kill the disease but not the patient - often not successful and would kill the patient
They used contaminated needles which led to the spread of more disease and a higher mortality rate |
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He popularized jazz musical styles and traditions
He wrote "THe Jeep is Jumpin'" which shows the military innovation and changes on American pop culture
He was a big player in the Harlem renaissance |
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| He was king during WWII. He tried to remain neutral despite the presence of British troops. He had Axis sympathies but eventually declared war against Germany due to pressure from the British |
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| He was an Italian born naturalized American who made major strides in his work with making the atomic bomb |
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| The fascist dictator of Spain who stayed neutral throughout the war but was a Nazi sympathizer |
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| He was a German atomic physicist working for the allies who was discovered to be giving information to the Soviets from the Americans, Canadians, and British |
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| He was a Palestinian Arab nationalist who actively collaborated with Hitler and the Italians. He wanted to get the British out and fought for Arab independence |
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He was the only senior officer of his rank to be knighted
The British firebombed Dresden but the morality and ethics were put into question - the rest of the officers in the campaign were given no medal or anything |
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A Japanese jazz composer who helped bring the jazz movement to Japan
He made jazz into "light" or "salon" music which combined Japanese folk styles with American jazz |
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He was the deputy of Himmler
He argued that the SS was the best to take care of dumping Jews and other unacceptable people into Poland |
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| He was the fascist leader of the Nazi party during WWII in Germany |
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He was in charge of the company which made spam
It means "spiced ham" and required no refrigeration
It was introduced as "miracle meat"
He was worried there would be a backlash against his product after the war since so many soldiers hated it but they were actually nostalgic about it and sales were fine
During the war, the meat was so oily that soldiers were ablet o sue it as gas for light, gun lubricant or to play shuffleboard
Overseas it was considered a commodity so soldiers would trade sex or intelligence for it |
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| He was the president in the Philippines when they were taken over by the Japanese. He attended the Greater East Asia conference in Tokyo. |
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| He was part of Petain's cabinet in Vichy France. He was an active collaborator with the Germans. He helped to send Frenchmen to work in Germany. He also helped round up non-French jews living in France to be sent to the death camps, and sometimes went beyond his orders. At the end of the war he was tried in Free France and executed |
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A General in the US airforce - he invented shift bombing -
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| He was a famous boxer who ended up in uniform. It was common to put athletes like him into the army but then keep them boxing |
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| He was a Thai nationalist who was a play write and historian. He worked on cultural campaigns before the outbreak of WWII for the Thais. |
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| She was an English singer-songwriter and actress who was extremely popular during WWII with British soldiers |
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| General Douglas MacAurthur |
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| He was the US commander of the armed forces in the far East during WWII. He was a very successful and well-respected general. During the warcrimes trials, he confirmed and enforced the sentences for the Japanese |
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He served as prime minster of Egypt at the beginning of WWII
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| He led the Finnish Civil war. The Nazis tried to get them to fight on their side against the Soviets but he refused |
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She was an American who during WWII was the secretary for the National Research Council's Committee on Food Habits
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| helped get more jews into the US, he wanted to execute nazis without trial |
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| He was the leader of Italy during WWII, a fascist who fougth on the side of Germany |
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| Nachthxen (Night Witches) |
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| They were the allied female Soviet aviators who flew bombing raids over German military. |
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| He was in charge of building the atomic bomb for the allies- he was later isolated from the government because it was believed he had communist tendencies |
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| He was a black baseball player who never enlisted in the army. He was exempt from the draft for "national wellness" so that he could keep playing baseball |
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| Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus |
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| He was a German military officer who commanded the attack on Stalingrad. He surrendered a day after being promoted by Hitler |
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| Marshall Henri Philippe Petain |
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| He was a national French war hero from WWI who later became the head of Vichy France and was considered a traitor to the French (after the war) because he appeased the Nazis. He was sentenced to death by Free France after the war but De Gualle lessened his punishment since he was a war hero to simply having him stripped of his titles and no longer allowed to be buried a hero. |
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| He was the prime minister and military dictator of Thailand. He allied with the Japanese |
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| He was a Belgian who made the TinTIn comic strip. The themes in the strip reflected the fact that it was published in conservative youth magazines, as well as the fact that Remi was an anti-capitalist, anti-nazi, racist. He was nuetral but anti-fascist. |
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| he was the Shah of Iran until the aligned British and Soviets forced him out of power. He was a Jewish sympathizer and modernized the country throughout his rule |
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| Alfred Reichslieter Rosenberg |
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| He was in charge of the German labor force. To acquire the necessary man power, he brought in people from Germany's occupied territories for forced labor. He was tried and executed at the Nuremberg trials |
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| He was the official architect of the Nazis. He was tried and sentenced to 20 years after the war for his use of forced labor. He became very close to Hitler. |
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| He was the ruthless fascist leader of the Soviet Union. Originally he fought on the side of the Nazis but later became an ally. He "modernized" his country by starving the countryside and attempting to industrialize the country. He also was responsible for numerous "purges" in his government which consisted of him killing thousands at a time to ensure he stayed in power. He let women fight for him the same as men. |
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He was a General in the United States Army who served in China during WWII. He was chief of staff to Chiang Kai-Sheck.
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| He was a Chinese politician who originally was leftist but became much more right wing after he began to collaborate with the Japanese. |
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| Waseda University Baseball Team |
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| It was a baseball team in Japan that formed at the beginning of the 20th century. It symbolized how the country was modernizing and westernizing. |
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| He ws an English author who usually was a fiction write but wrote a book the speculated the future of the world. It was written after WWI and Wells predicted the outbreak of WWII |
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| He was a presidential nominee running against Roosevelt. He later became a diplomat. |
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| He was the foreign minister to Japan during WWII who ended Japan's involvement in the UN and aligned them with the Soviets at the end of the war. |
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