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- Douglas MacArthur
- was in charge of Allied forces in the Pacific, a general
- Neville Chamberlain
- Agreed to appease Hitler at the Munich Conference, prime minster before Churchhill
- Navajo Code Talkers
- Native Americans who used the Navajo language as a code so enemies couldn't understand
- 442nd
- a military unit mostly made up of Japanese Americans. Most of the soldier's family members were put into the 'relocation camp' by the US Military became one of the military's most decorated
- Joseph Stalin
- Was the dictator of the Soviet Union after Lenin, starving country side, was with Germans until they turned on them then they too went with the Allies to help stop Germany
- Allies
- Great Britain, France, United States, and the Soviet Union
- Benito Mussolini
- Italian dictator of 1936, wanted to return Italy to it's former glory and seized Ethiopia
- Charles De Gulle
- French Gerneral
- George Marshall
- organized the European Recovery Program and also was a general and statesman
- Hideki Tojo
- WW2 general of Japan, agreed in aggression
- Tuskegee Airmen
- African American pilots who flew with distinction during WWII as the 332nd Fighter Group trained at Tuskegee Alabama
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Was 32nd president, led the country out of the depression and into WW2
- Winston Churchill
- successor of Neville Chamberlain, prime minster of Britain during the battle of Britain were German planes dropped many bombs
- Adolf Hitler
- dictator of Germany, took advantage of the country's struggle and wanted revenge, had a "final Solution" was leader of the Nazi party and executed millions of innocent Jews
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- became 34th president and was a general who was in command during D-day
- Axis
- Germany, Italy, and Japan
- Emperor Hirohito
- was a Japan emperor during WW2 who was like a god like figure,
- Nazis and Fascists
- National Socialists German Worker's Party or Nazis gained popularity in Germany, Fascists are dictators who usually are power hungry and just terriable
- Harry S. Truman
- succeeded FDR, 33rd president, also he decided to use the atomic bomb to end the war