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Benito Mussolini
Prime minister from 1922 to 1945 of Italy. Mussolini fought for the Axis power during WWII influencing his people that they would once again be great. After the war he was drug through the streets and killed. -
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Audie Murphy
Won the Medal of Honor for single handedly defending off a german company of soldiers in France injured and out of ammo. -
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Vernon Baker
Awarded the medal of honor for his actions in Italy on April 5-6 1945 and was the last African American WWII veteran until his death in 2010. -
Fascism
Authoritaian system of goverment and social organization. -
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Adolf Hitler
Austrian born politicial leader of Germany. Became chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1934 and led the Nazi Party in the Axis Power. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
United states president between 1933 and 1945 fighting for the allied powers. Crippled and later led to his death near the end of the war. -
Nazism
National German Socialist under the control of Adolf Hitler establishing a dictatorship and defending against all opposition. -
Rape of Nanking
Japanese invasion on eastern part of china killing thousands and raping thousands of women and children -
U.S. declares Neutrality
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Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1940-145 and later between 1951 and 1955. Churchill fought with the allied powers and was only still alive in the war due being over water. -
Japanese-American Interment Camps
Camps to seperate Japanese americans after the bombing of Pearl harbor during WWII. -
Lend Lease Act
Provided US military aid to foreign nations. -
Pearl Harbor
Surpise attack from Japan on costal island of Hawaii provoking United States to entering the war. -
Victory Gardens
Victory Gardens were gardens grown in back yards, school yards, and open lots to grow their own food to help ration for the war. -
War Bonds and Rationing
Goverment sold war bonds during the war and many people rationed there food and had just enough to save for the war. -
Office of War Information
Paired with goverment to send propoganda back home and abroad. -
Propaganda
Biased information that can be misleading to promote make public for a cause. -
Women’s Roles in WWII
Many women during the war took jobs normaly held by a man such as factory workers. -
Fire Bombing of Dresden
Attack on Dresden in the final battles of WWII and caused consitent bombing. -
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Harry S. Truman
Took of presidency of the United States after Franklin D. Roosevelt died after declining health and took over for the end of WWII -
Dictator
Ruler with total power over a country
Ex. Hitler and Mussolini
