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WWII
Global Citizenship
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Franklin roosevelt | US president during the war |
| Josef mengele | angel of death in Auschwitz + Nazi doctor |
| Erwin Rommel | great german tank commander |
| Klaus barbie | Nazi, the butcher of Lyon |
| Joseph Stalin | communist dictator of Russia |
| Albert Einstein | genius, important to atomic bomb project |
| Benito Mussolini | dictator of Italy |
| Heinrich Himmler | Nazi leader; head of dead camps + SS |
| Hirohito | Japanese emperor |
| isoroku yamamoto | Japanese admiral who was the mastermind behind the attack on pearl harbor |
| hideki Tojo | Japanese military leader; executed after war |
| Douglas macarthur | American general in Pacific; later Korea too |
| adolf Hitler | dictator of Germany |
| Joseph Goebbels | German minister of propaganda |
| Winston churchill | British prime minister who stood up to Hitler |
| Neville chamberlain | British prime minister who gave in to Hitler |
| Charles Lindbergh | opposed american involvement in war |
| Paul von Hindenburg | German president who shared power with Hitler prior to his death |
| Charles de gaulle | leader of the French resistance, free french |
| francisco Franco | fascist leader of Spain |
| Henri Petain | french general who worked with Hitler |
| Robert Oppenheimer | father of the atomic bomb |
| Jeannette Rankin | first female senator and the only no vote for war after attack on pearl harbor |
| Chiang Kai check | nationalist leader of china |
| mao Zedung | communist leader of china |
| billy Mitchell | understood the significance of air power to the war |
| Irving Berlin | famous composer and musician- wrote over 1500 songs |
| norman Rockwell | famous artist of nostalgic America |
| symbol of Nazi Germany | swastika |
| book written by Hitler | mein Kampf |
| gestapo | dreaded secret police |
| anti semitic campaign | Jews lose citizenship, cannot marry non-jewish, must wear star of David |
| blitzkrieg | lightening war |
| territories annexed by Germany | Austria, Czechoslovakia |
| When did WWII start | sept 1, 1939 due to hitler's attack on poland |
| sitzkrieg | sitting war/ phony war |
| axis powers | Japan, italy, Germany |
| Rommel nickname | desert fox |
| first allied counterattack | northern Africa |
| Bloodiest front of the war | eastern front |
| who did Germany make a non-aggression pact with? | Russia |
| Why was the invasion of Russia Hitler's biggest mistake? | it opened a two front war |
| what surprise attack was the first to use carrier planes? | attack on pearl harbor |
| allied powers | China, United States, Russia, England, France |
| What happened to Mussolini? | he was overthrown, shot, and hung |
| Who becomes president after FDR? | Harry Truman |
| How does Hitler die? | He commits suicide |
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