WWII Test IDs
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- Franco
- Leader of Spain 1939 until his death in 1975
- Hindenburg
- A war hero, was elected to be German president when he was 84 and in poor health. The Nazis took full advantage of his old age
- Nuremberg Laws
- Laws that explained who was German and who wasn't. Essentially, one needed four German grandparents to be German, you were Jewish if you had three or four Jewish grandparents, and you were a mixed "Mischling" if you had one or two Jewish grandparents
- De Gaulle
- A brigadier general in the French army, defeated a German attack using only tanks with no air support
- June 6th, 1944
- D-Day or Invasion of Normandy consisted of 156,000 American troops landing at Normandy to try and take France back from German control
- Stalingrad
- Considered the turning point of the European Theater of the war, the Soviets beat the Germans, but at no small cost, with over 1.5 million casualties.
- September 2nd, 1945
- World War II officially ends with the final Japanese surrender being signed upon the battleship Missouri
- Rommel
- Also known as the "Desert Fox" he was the the leader of the German African Corps. After being suspected of trying to kill Hitler, he commits suicide
- Midway
- A major naval battle between America and Japan, America won with 1/4 the losses of Japan
- October 29th, 1929
- The worst stock market crash in all of American history. This day was called "Black Tuesday"
- Chamberlain
- Was the British Prime Minister, but was replaced by Churchill after Hitler broke their peace treaty
- Second battle of El Alamain
- A second defeat forced an end to the Axis power in all of Africa
- May 8th, 1945
- VE day, fighting in Europe ends
- March on Rome
- A strike "led" by Mussolini (who was no where to be found during this March) in which 30,000 or so Blackshirts marched to Rome and Mussolini was legally put into power
- September 1st, 1939
- Germany invades Poland, thus beginning World War II
- First battle of El Alamain
- This battle stopped the Axis advance into Egypt
- December 7th, 1941
- The attack on American naval base at Pearl Harbor by Japanese bombers, showed primitive state of radar technology
- Dunkirk
- A battle in which British forces tried to help the French, but were cut off by the Germans, the Germans could have them fought the British, but chose not to as small British boats rescued their soldiers
- Eisenhower
- Thirty fourth president of the United States, and supreme allied commander in Europe
- Bataan Peninsula
- The forced march of 100,000 American soldiers by Japanese forces after three months of fighting. Thousands died during the march by gunshot or beheading, others were killed less pleasantly (disembowelment and the like)