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world history final
world history final
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History
9th Grade
06/04/2013

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President Roosevelt
Definition
US President for the 1st half of the war.
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President Truman
Definition
President for the 2nd half of the war.
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Winston Churchill
Definition

Leader of Great Britain for most of the war.

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Edouard Daladier
Definition
Leader of France
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Benito Mussolini
Definition
Leader of Italy
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Adolf Hitler
Definition
Leader of Germany
Term
Emperor Hirohito
Definition
Emperor of Japan
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Joseph Stalin
Definition

Leader of Soviet Union during the war.

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General George Patton
Definition

Great general who led the US and British troops into Northern Africa and Southern France.

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Dwight Eisenhower
Definition
Commander of D-Day.
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Pearl Harbor
Definition

US naval base where 2,400

 americans were killed during the attack.

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Bataan Death March
Definition
Forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese during which led to over 10,000 deaths.
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Luftwaffe
Definition
German air force
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When is D-Day
Definition

June 6, 1944 

 

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D-Day
Definition

The attack on Normandy and France

by the Americans and British.

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Battle of the Bulge
Definition
Battle between Germany and the Allies that took place in Belgium.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
Definition
Largest naval battle in history
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Nagasaki
Definition

the second and last city in the world

to experience a nuclear bombing.

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