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Benito Mussolini
The 27th Prime Minister of Italy. He played a pivital role in WWII by joining the Axis powers with Germany and Japan. He was known for his great Dictatoral influence. -
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Harry Truman
The 33rd President of The United States from succession due to the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. After Germany surrendered, Truman approved of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima that effectively ended the War. -
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Hideki Tojo
The Prime Minister of Japan, he led his country in a key position in World War II as one of the Axis Powers. He was directly responsiible for the attack of Pearl Harbor, an attack that led American directly into the War. -
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George S. Patton
A United States General in World War II. He commanded the Seventh and Third United states army. -
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Adolf Hitler
Leader of the German Nazi Party and Fuhrer of Germany. He led the German army to be a key power in the Axis Powers. He started the Holocaust, the so called 'cleansing' of the world of people of mainly Jewish and Gypsy heritage and religion. -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
The 34th President of The United States. During The Cold War, he supported Atoms for Peace at the United Nations General Assembly in order to ease Cold War tensions. -
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Omar Bradley
He was a feild commander in the U.S. Army General during WWII. He had control of over 1.3 million men in the Western invaion of Germany. -
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The Holocaust
The Genocide of Jewish, Homosexual, and any person in the world seen as sub-human by Germany. This resultes in over 6 million death of the Jewish religion alone. -
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The Atomic Bomb (The Manhattan Project)
A bomb developed for destruction on an enourmous scale. It was a bomb that used chemical and atomic fission to render it capable of causing collateral damage. It emploeyed about 13,000 people and costed over 2 billion dollars. -
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Executive Order 9066
Order made by Franklin D. Roosevelt to remove Japanese-Americans from more social society and put them in peaceful concentration camps to keep information about America away from Japanese enemies who might try and sabotage the U.S. -
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Bataan Death March
A 65-mile march by 75,000 American and Filipino soldiers to prison camps and subjected to vicious and harsh treatment by Japanese captors. -
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The Battle Of Midway
A naval defensive battle between the U.S. and the Empire of Japan. Poor JApanese assumptions and American codebreakers made this a victory, and a significantly big one, for the Allied powers. -
Merchant Marines
Marines that were responsible for transporting inventory through unnavigatable waters from one country to another. Their role in WWII was transporting big ship and aircraft to foreign countries to help the war effort. -
D-Day Invasion
The invasion on Germany occupied Normady Beach, in France. It was an amphibious and head on invasion of soldiers running straight into machine gun fire hoping to overwhelm the German defences. -
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Korematsu v U.S.
A court case concerning the use of executive order 9066, the placement of countless Japanese-American citizens to peaceful concentration camps to prevent Information from leaking from Japanese citizens loyal to their home country in the war. On December 18th, it was ruled as constitutional. -
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Hiroshiman and Nagasaki
The two Japanese cities that the two atomic bombs were dropped on, endind the war in Japan
