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WW2
history trimester one - midterm
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History
10th Grade
03/09/2008

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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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President during most of WW2, dies shortly before the end.
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Harry Truman
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Vice President until Roosevelt dies. Now as president he votes to drop atomic bomb on Japan
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Winston Churchill
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Became Prime Minister of England
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Joseph Stalin
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Leader of USSR
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Emperor Hirohito
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Emperor of Japan
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Hideki Tojo
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Prime Minister of Japan
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Adolf Hitler
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Head Nazi. Grandfather could have been Jewish. Incredibly smart. Wanted to be an artist.

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Benito Mussolini
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Controlled nation with blessing of king and pope, started war with Ethiopia. Hitler looked up to him like a big brother but soon it reversed.
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Charles DeGaulle
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Top Frence General
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Mao Tse-Tung
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Communist in China
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Very high in the military. Was just below the President but above the Generals
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George Patton
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Was in charge of U.S. army. Sent a boy to the front of the lines because he was in the hospital from nerves. Patton gets suspended. Used as a decoy in the final attack
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Douglas MacArthur
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General in Philippines (Pacific)
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Omar Bradley
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Was second in command of U.S. army. Took over when Patton was suspended. Was in charge of U.S. D-day landings.
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James Doolittle

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Plans bombing raid on Tokyo
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Jonathan Wainwright
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#2 General in the Pacific
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Erwin Rommel
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"Desert Fox" German General in North Africa "Afrika Corps"
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Gerd Von Rundstedt
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Commander of central army for Russia
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Bernard Law Montgomery
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Was in charge of the armies from England, France etc. "Operation Torch" General - Invasion of north africa
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Georgi Zhukov
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Was in charge of the USSR army
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Chiang Kai-shek
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President of China. anti-communits; Our FRIEND
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Alfred Jodl
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Surrenders. German General
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William "Bull" Halsey
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Admiral - "In your face fighting"
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Chester Nimitz
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Top Admiral against Japan (Pacific)
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Isoroku Yamamoto
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Planned Pearl Harbor attack
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Husband Kimmel
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American Commander at Pearl Harbor
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Karl Doenitz
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Successor of Hitler. Surrenders
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Martin Bormann
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Hitlers personal secretary. Escaped

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Eva Braun
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Hitlers girlfriend who he married at the end of the war. Had a 24 hour honeymoon before commiting suicide with hitler in a bunker before they were captured.
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Adolf Eichmann
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Himmlers assistant. escaped but later caught and executed.
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Anne Frank
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Jew. Bergen-Belsen
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Joseph Goebbles
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In charge of propaganda for Nazi's

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Herman Goering
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Head of German Air Force (Luftwaffe) #3 guy. Killed family along with self when Nazi's defeated. "couldn't think of a world without hitler"
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Heinrich Himmler
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Head of SS / Final Solution
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Dr. Joseph Mengele
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"The angel of death" he did experiments on people in concentration camps. Decided who died or lived
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"Rosie the Riveter"
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Term for working women
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