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-Emperor of Ethiopia
-internationalist views led to Ethiopia becoming charter member of the UN
-promoted multilateralism & collective security |
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-Chinese nationalist leader
-received US financial help after Pearl Harbor bombing |
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-political and spiritual leader
-pineered "satyagraha"-resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience
-believed in philosophy ahimsa-nonviolence
-helped India gain independence, inspired movements for civil rights, and freedom across the world |
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-approved attack on Pearl Harbor
-Aug. 15, 1945 announced unconditional surrender to Japanese people
-remained emperor of Japan after WWII under an American-imposed Japanese constitution |
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-1938 became COMMINCHF of the Combined Fleet, worked toward improving training of men, but didn't outfit Japanese ships with radar
-bombed Pearl Harbor |
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-Dictator of Russia during WWII
-Member of Communist Party
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-Japanese politician who served as 34th, 38th, and 39th Prime Minister of Japan
-founder/leader of the Taisei Yokusankai |
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-US diplomat and career foreign service officer
-Ambassador in Tokyo during Pearl Harbor and when US declared war on Japan |
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-"organizer of victory" by Churchill
-Chief of Staff of the Army
-devised the ERP
-awarded Nobel Prize for Peace because of "Marshall Plan" |
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-40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of WWII
-Tojo sentenced to death for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East during WWII |
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-managed US military as Secretary of State during WWII |
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-given the responsibility for the training of US naval forces for the D-Day landings
-8th, Chief of Naval Operations |
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-Maj. Gen. of US Army and US military Commander responsible for the defense of US installations in Hawaii at the time of Pearl Harbor |
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Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel |
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-four-star admiral in the US Navy
-Commander-in-cheif, US Pacific Fleet during Pearl Harbor |
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-protege of Stalin
-Soviet politician and diplomat
-Major perpetrator of the Great Terror
-Principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939
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-British Conservative politician and statesman
-oversaw the re-armament process of the British military as well as the abdication of Kind Edward VIII |
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-Munich Conference
-leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement
-second President of Czechoslovakia |
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-supported Munich Agreement
-apposed to taking military action against Nazi
-preferred appeasement |
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-best known appeasement foreign policy
-signed Munich Agreement in 1938
-led Britain through first eight months of WWII |
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-prime minister twice in Britian
-politician and statesman
-honorary citizen to US |
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-Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
-Mussolini's son in law
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-French radical politician
-Prime Minister of France at the start of WWII |
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-last German Ambassador to Britain before WWII
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-Foreign Secretary three periods during WWII |
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-unsuccessful command of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France
-known for defense of republican values |
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-one of Hitler's closest associates
-Reich Minister of Propaganda
-known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism
-chief architect of the Kristallnacht attack on the German Jews |
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Field Marshall Herman Goering |
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-leading member of Nazi Party
-veteran of of WWI, ace fighter pilot
-Hitler made him senior officer to all of the Wehrmacht commanders
-Hitler designated him as his successor and deputy in all his offices
-Convicted of war crime and crimes against humanity
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-Ambassador of Great Britain to Germany from 1937 to 1939
-believed Hitler could be controlled and pushed toward peace
-counselled Chamberlain into Munich Agreement |
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-pro Nazi politician in Czechoslovakia
-leader of Sudetenland German separatists |
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-Reichsfuhrer of the SS
-oversaw all internal and external police and security forces
-second most powerful Nazi |
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-Chancellor of Germany
-believed in anti-Semiticism |
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Colonel Friedrich Hossbach |
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-military adjunct to Hitler |
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-longest serving Sec. of State (11 years)
-established UN
-"Father of Nations", FDR |
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Colonel General Wilheim Keitel |
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-Germany's most senior military leaders during WWII |
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-father of JFK
-served as Ambassador to Great Britain until the early part of WWII |
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-Medal of Honor recipient
-flew many combat missions as a civilian during the Pacific Theater |
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-British civil servant and diplomat
-Ambassador to the US from 1929 to 1939 |
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-Russian-Jewish revolutionary
-prominent Soviet diplomat
-through his efforts Britain agreed to end its economic blockade of the SU
-believed heavily in collective security |
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-Czech diplomat
-resigned as Ambassador in protest to the Germans occupying Sudetenland |
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-favored the abolition of the monarchy
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-Italian politician
-led National Fascist Party
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-32nd President of US
-only President elected for more than two terms
-led US for most of WWII
-declared war on Japan after Pearl Harbor |
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Appeasement is commonly understood to refer to a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power |
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