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Benito Mussolini
- -Il Duce of Fascist Italy
- -wanted Roman Empire
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Joseph Stalin
- -Communist (classless system) leader of S.U.: made Russia world power
- - signed non-aggression pact
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Charles de Gaulle
- -tank commander
- -leader of Free France
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Francisco Franco
- -lead nationalist gov't in Spain
- -started Spanish Civil War
- -got help from Mussolini and Hitler
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FDR
- -32nd President; polio; died before end of war
- -elected 4 times
- -led U.S. out of depression and into WWII
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Winston Churchill
- -Prime Minister of England
- -kept morale high
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Emperor Hirohito
-powerless emperor- God on Earth
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Harry S Truman
- -VP for FDR
- -ended WWII
- -1st President to use atomic weapons (justified becasue he saved lives)
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Chiang Kai-shek
- -Leader of Republic of China
- -Fought Communist Forces
- -teamed with Mao Tse-tung to fight Japanese
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Mao Tse-tung
- -Communist leader in China
- -Teamed with Kai-shek
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General Dwight Eisenhower
- 34th President
- -in charge of al Allies forces in Europe
- -commanded D-Day invasion on Normandy
- -WAR HERO
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Admiral Karl Donitz
- -U-boat commander
- -2nd president of Reich after Hitler
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General Douglas MacArthur
- -Led U.S. Army/Marine Corps to vicotory in Pacific
- -Supreme Allied Commander of Japan afer WWII
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General George Marshall
- -General of Army at home-front only
- -most important: sold war bonds to fund the war
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General Bernard Montgomery
British General took undue credit from American generals
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Admiral Chester Nimitz
-Commander of all U.S. forces in Pacific, came up with island-hopping strategy
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General George Patton
fought in North Africa, very honest person
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General Omar Bradley
- -commander of the American forces in Omaha and Utah.
- All American, British, and Canadian troops landed successfully on D-Day
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General Erwin Rommel
- -Desert Fox
- -Realized hitler was nuts and planned assassination
- -Hitler gave ultimatum when he found out: take your own life or I kill your family
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Prime Minister Tojo
- -Ruled Japan with iron fist, most feared in Japan
- -Realized they had to attack Pearl Harbor
- -Used God on Earth to convince the people
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
- wanted to attack last American base- something Island
- -knew they messed up attacking Pearl Harbor: missed targets
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Dorie Miller
- Naval Serviceman who dies on ship in WWII
- cook and hero
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Albert Einstein
- German fled to U.S.
- Introduced Nuclear Fission to FDR
- FDR started Manhattan Project
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Robert Oppenheimer
- head of Manhattan Project
- physicist
- helped develop first atomic bomb in New Mexico
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Eleanor Roosevelt
- Improved morale of Americans.
- visited servicemen, made phone calls
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Oskar Schindler
- businessman/Nazi spy
- Had people working for him intentionally messing up weapons in factory. They were on a list exempt from concentration camps
- hero to Jews
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Joseph Grew
U.S. ambassador to Japan before WWII
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Cordell Hull
- longest serving U.S. Secretary of State in WWII
- Helped make UN
- served the President in office fore 12 years
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Heinrich Himmler
- Hitler's henchman in charge of his social security
- very feared
- hepled create Holocuast
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Joseph Goebbels
- head of propoganda for Nazi Party
- made concentration camps look like summer camp in commercials
- Loved Hitler
- killed family because Hitler lost
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Rudolf Hess
- helped Hitler write Mein Kampf
- Deputer leader
- crash landed in Ireland unnecessarily to make deal with British
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Herman Goering
- Hitler's confidant
- Head of Luftwaffe
- falsely promised no bombs would hit Berlin (Germany's capital)
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Reinhard Heydrich
- did Himmler's dirty work.
- Head of Gestapo
- Hitler lied and said he was the natural successor when Karl Dontiz was
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Martin Bormann
- Hess's Secretary
- handled domestic affairs while Hitler was away
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Dr. Josef Mengele
- Angel of Death
- picked who died and lived
- Dropped body temperature to freezing and then heated it up again and vice versa, etc.
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