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WWII Midterm
Famous figures of WWII
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Undergraduate 3
10/13/2010

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Haile Selassie
Definition

-Emperor of Ethiopia

-internationalist views led to Ethiopia becoming charter member of the UN

-promoted multilateralism & collective security

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Chiang Kai-shek
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-Chinese nationalist leader

-received US financial help after Pearl Harbor bombing

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Ghandi
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-political and spiritual leader

-pineered "satyagraha"-resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience

-believed in philosophy ahimsa-nonviolence

-helped India gain independence, inspired movements for civil rights, and freedom across the world

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Hirohito

 

Definition

-approved attack on Pearl Harbor

-Aug. 15, 1945 announced unconditional surrender to Japanese people

-remained emperor of Japan after WWII under an American-imposed Japanese constitution

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Isoroku Yamamoto
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-1938 became COMMINCHF of the Combined Fleet, worked toward improving training of men, but didn't outfit Japanese ships with radar

-bombed Pearl Harbor

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Joseph Stalin
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-Dictator of Russia during WWII

-Member of Communist Party

 

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Prince Konoye
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-Japanese politician who served as 34th, 38th, and 39th Prime Minister of Japan

-founder/leader of the Taisei Yokusankai

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Joseph Clark Grew
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-US diplomat and career foreign service officer

-Ambassador in Tokyo during Pearl Harbor and when US declared war on Japan

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General George Marshall
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-"organizer of victory" by Churchill

-Chief of Staff of the Army

-devised the ERP

-awarded Nobel Prize for Peace because of "Marshall Plan"

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Hideki Tojo
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-40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of WWII

-Tojo sentenced to death for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East during WWII

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Henry L. Stimson
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-managed US military as Secretary of State during WWII
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Admiral Harold R. Stark
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-given the responsibility for the training of US naval forces for the D-Day landings

-8th, Chief of Naval Operations

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Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short
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-Maj. Gen. of US Army and US military Commander responsible for the defense of US installations in Hawaii at the time of Pearl Harbor
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Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel
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-four-star admiral in the US Navy

-Commander-in-cheif, US Pacific Fleet during Pearl Harbor

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Vyacheslav Molotov
Definition

-protege of Stalin

-Soviet politician and diplomat

-Major perpetrator of the Great Terror 

-Principal Soviet signatory of the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939

 

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Stanley Baldwin
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-British Conservative politician and statesman

-oversaw the re-armament process of the British military as well as the abdication of Kind Edward VIII

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Edward Benes
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-Munich Conference

-leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement

-second President of Czechoslovakia

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George Bonnet
Definition

-supported Munich Agreement

-apposed to  taking military action against Nazi

-preferred appeasement

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Neville Chamberlain
Definition

-best known appeasement foreign policy

-signed Munich Agreement in 1938

-led Britain through first eight months of WWII

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Winston Churchill
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-prime minister twice in Britian

-politician and statesman

-honorary citizen to US

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Count Galeazzo Ciano
Definition

-Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs

-Mussolini's son in law

 

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Edward Daladier
Definition

-French radical politician

-Prime Minister of France at the start of WWII

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Herbert von Dirksen
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-last German Ambassador to Britain before WWII

 

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Anthony Eden
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-Foreign Secretary three periods during WWII
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General Maurice Gamelin
Definition

-unsuccessful command of the French military in 1940 during the Battle of France

-known for defense of republican values

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Josef Goebbels
Definition

-one of Hitler's closest associates

-Reich Minister of Propaganda 

-known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism

-chief architect of the Kristallnacht attack on the German Jews

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Field Marshall Herman Goering
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-leading member of Nazi Party

-veteran of of WWI, ace fighter pilot

-Hitler made him senior officer to all of the Wehrmacht commanders

-Hitler designated him as his successor and deputy in all his offices

-Convicted of war crime and crimes against humanity

 

 

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Sir Nevile Hunderson
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-Ambassador of Great Britain to Germany from 1937 to 1939

-believed Hitler could be controlled and pushed toward peace

-counselled Chamberlain into Munich Agreement

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Konrad Henlein
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-pro Nazi politician in Czechoslovakia

-leader of Sudetenland German separatists

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Rudolf Hess
Definition

-Hitler's deputy

 

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Heinrich Himmler
Definition

-Reichsfuhrer of the SS

-oversaw all internal and external police and security forces

-second most powerful Nazi 

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Adolf Hitler
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-Chancellor of Germany

-believed in anti-Semiticism

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Colonel Friedrich Hossbach
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-military adjunct to Hitler
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Cordell Hull
Definition

-longest serving Sec. of State (11 years)

-established UN

-"Father of Nations", FDR

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Colonel General Wilheim Keitel
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-Germany's most senior military leaders during WWII
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Joseph P. Kennedy
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-father of JFK

-served as Ambassador to Great Britain until the early part of WWII

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Charles Lindbergh
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-Medal of Honor recipient 

-flew many combat missions as a civilian during the Pacific Theater

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Sir Ronald Lindsay
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-British civil servant and diplomat

-Ambassador to the US from 1929 to 1939

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Maxim Litvinov
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-Russian-Jewish revolutionary

-prominent Soviet diplomat

-through his efforts Britain agreed to end its economic blockade of the SU

-believed heavily in collective security

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Jan Masaryk
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-Czech diplomat

-resigned as Ambassador in protest to the Germans occupying Sudetenland

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Thomas Masaryk
Definition

-favored the abolition of the monarchy

 

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Benito Mussolini
Definition

-Italian politician

-led National Fascist Party

 

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FDR
Definition

-32nd President of US

-only President elected for more than two terms

-led US for most of WWII

-declared war on Japan after Pearl Harbor

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Appeasement
Definition
Appeasement is commonly understood to refer to a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power
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