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| the “Desert Fox”; German tank commander |
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| General Dwight Eisenhower – |
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| Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; American |
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| Soviet city and industrial center surrounded by Germans |
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largest air and amphibious assault in history with more
than 5,000 ships Allied invasion of Normandy France on June 6, 1944; |
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| last German offensive with attack of German forces in the Ardennes Forest of Belgium |
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meeting in Yalta by Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill to decide how to end the war and future of
Europe |
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| Germany surrenders May 8, 1945 |
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| Nazi extermination of 6 million Jews in Europe |
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| concentration camp in Poland that killed 1 ½ million Jews |
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| prejudice and hatred toward Jewish race |
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| General Douglas MacArthur – |
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| Supreme Commander in Pacific; American |
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American navy victory over Japanese at island of Midway in June 1942; six months after Pearl Harbor;
turning point in Pacific |
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| Allied strategy of taking key islands to move closer to Japan |
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island in Pacific and location of largest Marine Corps deaths in American history; American victory with over
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| Navajo Indians recruited to transmit coded message in native language |
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| Japanese suicide pilots who flew planes into Allied ships; word means “thunder gods |
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| top secret weapons program that developed the atomic bomb |
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| names of two atomic bombs |
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| two Japanese cities devastated by atomic bombs; 125,000 die in blasts |
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| Victory in Japan on September 2, 1945 |
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