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| Non-Aggression Pact - Germany and USSR (Hitler and Stalin) agree not to attack eachother |
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| German Blitzkreig (lightning war) of Poland - defeat was fast - World War II starts - Poland surrenders in 22 days |
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| Japan attacks Pearl Harbor - Sunday, 8 a.m. - targeted 6 aircraft carriers, all of which were located elsewhere - US knew that Japan was going to attack but predicted the wrong day (Sun. Nov. 30) - attack planned by Yama Moto (attended Harvard) |
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| U.S. declares war on the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) - President asks for war to be declared, Congress passes motion, President becomes lead soldier |
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| D-Day - The allied invasion of Europe - largest naval force in history - D = death, doom, decision, destruction |
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| V-E Day (Victory in Europe) - Germany surrenders - Hitler is dead by this time - NOT the end of the war |
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| 1st atomic bomb dropped - Hiroshima |
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| 2nd atomic bomb dropped - Nagasaki |
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| V-J Day (Victory in Japan) - Japan stops fighting but DOES NOT SURRENDER YET |
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| Japan formally surrenders aboard a U.S. ship in Tokyo - World War II is over |
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| Italian dictator from 1922-1944 - murdered by his own people - called himself "Il Dulce" which means "the leader" in Italian |
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| German dictator from 1933-1945 - "Der fuehrer" - shot himself, body then burned (never found remains) |
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| Hitler's wife for one day - married the day before they killed themselves - kills herself before Hitler killed himself |
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| U.S. president during World War II - elected 4 times (1932/36/40/44) - dies in April 1945 beside his mistress of a stroke |
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| Soviet dictator from 1924-1952 |
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| Leader of Ethiopia when invaded by Italy in the 1930s |
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| Prime minister of England before World War II - nicknamed "weasel by Hitler" - removed when WWII starts |
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| War time Prime minister of England |
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| Leader of the "free" French - lived in exile - fought the Nazis - leader of France after World War II |
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| Fought for Germany - not a Nazi - nicknamed "desert fox" - personally responsible for Hitler's safety until Ethiopia commands fell through - became part of a plot to assassinate Hitler - forced to commit suicide |
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| Involved in plot to kill Hitler - commits suicide |
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| Most famous U.S. tank commander - nicknamed “Old Blood and Guts” - died in a strange traffic accident after World War II |
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| General Dwight Eisenhower |
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| Supreme allied commander - responsible for the D Day invasion - nicknamed “IKE” - president from 1952-1960 |
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| General Bernard Montgomery |
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| Eisenhower's English assistant - jealous |
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| General Douglas MacArthur |
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| U.S. commander against Japan - fired by Truman in 1951 |
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| 2nd in command in Germany - ran the SS (storm troopers) which were called SCHUTZSTAFFEL or GESTAPO - loved roses - commits suicide |
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| "minister of hate" - in charge of propoganda - married to model - together killed their six children and then both comitted suicide |
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| Ran the LUFTWAFFE (air force) - wealthiest Nazi - "the fat one" - dies by poison |
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| Ran the German navy - in charge of Germany after Hitler’s death - surrenders Germany - 10 year prison term |
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| Hitler’s secretary - flew to Scotland – May 10, 1941 - spent the rest of his life in prison - died in prison |
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| "Final Solution of the Jewish problem” - gassing / burning - escaped - found in Argentina in 1960 |
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| Doctor at Auschwitz - “Angel of Death” - obsessed with eye color and multiple births - disappeared after World War II |
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| Emperor of Japan during World War II - position of title not power because of Hideki Tojo |
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| Japan’s Minister of War during World War II - executed by the U.S. after WWII |
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| Represented the Japanese government when they surrendered on Sept. 2, 1945 |
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| Roosevelt’s Vice-President in 1945 - became President upon Roosevelt’s death - made the decision to drop the atomic bombs - president from 1945-1948 - re-elected President from 1948-1952 - chose to retire in 1952 – he did not retire because of the term limitations (two terms per person rule did not apply to him) - followed by Eisenhower |
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| Most decorated World War II soldier - received 43 medals because killed / captured / wounded 240 Nazi soldiers - good looking – made into an actor |
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| Radio broadcaster who attempted to undermine the morale of U.S. soldiers during World War II |
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| Hid from the Nazis for 27 months in Amsterdam - she was caught and died – her father was the only survivor of the Holocaust in their family – found the diary |
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| Dachau, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Buchenwald, and on and on and on etc |
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| The removal of Americans of Japanese ancestry from homes and businesses - moved them to Internment Camps located East of the Rocky Mountains |
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Code name for the Atomic Bomb - built in Chicago - three bombs:
1. Test bomb – blown up in New Mexico
2. Hiroshima
3. Nagasaki
Bombs were really meant to send a message to Soviets rather than attacking Japan |
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