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USH WW2

US History 2017-2018
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African American airmen whose distinguished performance during WW2 led to racial integration of Armed Forces after WW2
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Authoritarian Soviet ruler during WW2
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Forest straddling border between Luxembourg and Belgium site of Nazi counter-attack of Dec. 1944
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1943 Conference during which allies promised to open second Western front against Hitler by invading Europe
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Pacific island and 1942 battle/turning point in war between U.S. and Japan
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Symbol of women workers who filled factories to assist the war effort in the 1940's
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Japanese code name for Midway, discovered by American cryptographers
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Code name for beach in Normandy where c. 2,000 U.S. soldiers died on 6/6/44
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_____ Gay: B-29 flown by Paul Tibbets, carried atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, 8/6/45
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Medal of honor recipient and senator from Hawaii
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John R. _____: U.S. soldier awarded Medal of Honor; sacrificed his life to stop German attack in Italy
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Fritz Julius _____, leader of German American Bund, speaker at MSG rally in 1939
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Key 1942 battle between Soviet and Nazi forces; turning point of WW2
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Country with the most soldiers and civilians killed during WW2
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Allied Invasion of Normanday in June of 1944
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Mercurial but talented U.S. commander who led American forces in N. Africa, Italy and France
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Peninsula in the Philippine Island of Luzon; site of murderous 70-mile forced march of U.S. and Filipino captives by their Japanese captors in 1942
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Site of American landing in 1942, called Operation Torch; the U.S.'s first major military operation of WW2
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Country second only to the USSR in loss of life during WW2
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Japanese admiral, lost carriers Hiryu, Soryu, Akagi and Kaga at Midway (1942), committed suicide during Battle of Saipan in 1944