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Dwight Eisenhower
Ike was his nickname
He was a president
He was a u.s. General
He was in charge of operation overlord / d-day
Operation torch was very sicsesfull
Franklin Roosevelt
US President
Kept USA neutral in WWII until pearl harbor 1941
Loaned weapons and supplies to United kingdom
Appeasement
Giving in to the agreser to keep peace
Germany
Hitlor
France
Great britain
Fred Korematsu
Fought against japanese internment in US
Concentration camp
Nazis imprisoned jews
Nazis used gas chambers to kill jews
Camps liberated in april 1945
George Patton
He was the u.s. general
He broke through german lines
Patton was a decoy
He was a hero of the battle of the bulge
He slapped the troops
He served in ww1 and ww2
Rationing
Limits on purchasing certain items needed by troops at war
Ration coupon books
Ghetto
Isolated urban areas
Germans uprooted jews in poland and forced them to live in ghettos
Unsuccessful uprising in Warsaw, Poland 1943
D-Day
It was the largest sea and land invasion in history
June 6, 1944
Its in northern france
germans against amaricans
They fight in france
They landed 155,000 troops in france
10,000 troops are injured
Allies won
Erwin Rommel
He's a german general
He fought the allies for the next to years in a back and fourth battle over some 1,500 miles
The desert fox
He was in the battle of el alamein and he lost the war
Rommel ended up in the hospital and hitler sent his men to kill him
Lend-Lease Act
Passed in march 1941
U.s Loaned 7 billion dollars of weapons and supplies to britain and soviets
Roosevelt encouraged congress to pass bill
Anti-semitism
Racism against jewish people
Kristallnacht
November 9th 1938
Nazis rampage
91 jews were killed and 100s were injured
night of broken glass
Hideki Tojo
He was a general in japan
Hes with the army
He led the japeanse invasion
He was the prime minister
He approved the pearl harbor attack
When he found out that people where coming for him he tried to kill himself but missed and then he got cought they put him in the hospitil to heal him up and then execute him by hanging him
They wanted to video tape his death but macarthur said no
Pogrom
Organized massacre of particular ethnic group
Kristallnacht November 1938
During WWII against jews
Harry Truman
US President after Roosevelt
Authorized use of atomic bombs against japan
Member of Potsdam conference to divide germany after war ended
Helped create united nations
Francisco Franco
Spanish dictator
Sent 50000 troops to fight with germany against soviets
Opened ports to german submarines
Blitzkrieg
Germany attacked poland
Broke through enemy lines with airplanes and tanks
German for lightning war
Allied Powers (Allies)
US, United Kingdom (Britain), Soviet Union, France, China
Axis Powers
Germany, Japan, Italy