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American History
World War II: Personalities of the War Years
INSTRUCTIONS: Match EACH of these personalities with the corresponding NUMBER of his/her CORRECT description.
_____ John Basilone
_____ Dorie Miller
1. African-American Hero at Pearl Harbor
23. Rocket Scientist at Pennemunde
_____ Moe Berg
_____ Bernard Law Montgomery
2. Papal Leader … & Collaborator?
24. Hollywood Director of “Why We Fight”
_____ Irving Berlin
_____ Audie Murphy
3. “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”
25. Republican Pres. Candidate in ‘40
_____ Frank Capra
_____ Edward R. Murrow
4. Axis Commander: “The Desert Fox”
26. “Lord Haw Haw”
_____ Winston Churchill
_____ Benito Mussolini
5. Most Decorated American GI
27. Emperor of Imperial Japan
_____ Iva Toguri D’Aquino _____ J. Robert Oppenheimer
6. Soviet Leader & “Big Three” Leader
28. American Battlefield Correspondent
_____ Elmer Davis
_____ Henri Petain
7. Il Duce of Fascist Italy
29. Generalissimo of Chinese Republic
_____ Charles DeGaulle
_____ Pius XII
8. Authorized Use of Atomic Bomb
30. Composer of “This Is The Army” revue
_____ Thomas E. Dewey
_____ Ernie Pyle
9. Supreme Allied Commander of D-Day
31. Pacific Axis Propagandist: “Tokyo Rose”
_____ Jimmy Doolittle
_____ Vikun Quisling
10. Father of the UN & Atomic Age
32. Leader of Vichy France
_____ Dwight Eisenhower
_____ Erwin Rommel
11. Wartime PM of Great Britain
33. Manhattan Project Military Supervisor
_____ Anne Frank
_____ Franklin D. Roosevelt
12. Leader of Office of War Information
34. Infamous Norwegian Traitor
_____ Martha Gelhorn
_____ Oskar Schindler
13. Wrote about GIs at “The Front”
35. Der Fuhrer of Nazi Germany
_____ Mildred Gillars
_____ Josef Stalin
14. General DID Return to Philippines
36. Adolescent Martyr of The Holocaust
_____ Leslie R. Groves
_____ Paul Tibbets
15. “Liberty Ships” Innovative Industrialist
37. Nazi Peace Mission … to Scotland?
_____ Rudolf Hess
_____ Hideki Tojo
16. Author of History’s Most Famous List?
38. Wartime PM of Imperial Japan
_____ Hirohito
_____ Harry S. Truman
17. NJ Medal of Honor Winner in Pacific
39. Rabbi who Warned about The Holocaust
_____ Adolf Hitler
_____ Wernher von Braun
18. Commander of the “Enola Gay”
40. Leader of the Free French Forces
_____ William Joyce
_____ Raoul Wallenberg
19. “This … is London”
41. Architect of Pearl Harbor Attack
_____ Henry Kaiser
_____ Wendell Willkie
20. Former ML Catcher Turned Spy
42. Manhattan Project Scientific Supervisor
_____ Chiang Ki-Shek
_____ Stephen Wise
21. British Hero of North Africa & Italy
43. “Axis Sally”
_____ Douglas MacArthur
_____ Isoroku Yamamoto
22. Republican Pres. Candidate of ’44
44. Swedish Diplomat who Saved Jews