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world war II
Term | Definition |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the US when the war started |
Adolf Hitler | Dictator of Germany/Leader of the Nazi party |
Benito Mussolini | Dictator of Italy |
Winston Churchill | Prime Minister (leader) of the british government |
hideki Tojo | leader of Japan |
Joseph Stalin | dictator of Russia (USSR)- Union of soviet socialist republic |
Admiral Chester Nimitz | commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet |
General Dwight D. Eisenhower | commander of all of the Allied Forces. Would later become president of the U.S. |
General George S. Patton | Led U.S. Forces in the Battle of the Bulge and the march to germany. |
General Douglas MacArthur | planned the strategy of island hopping. Gain control of the islands in the Pacific from Japan and use them as American military bases to defeat Japan |