World War II Leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry Truman Dwight D Eisenhower Douglas MacArthur Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Emperor Hirohito Hideki Tojo

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt Born in Hyde Park, New York in 1882, an only child, to a very wealthy family Studied at Harvard and Columbia Law School A Polio attack in 1921 disables his legs

Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected Democratic Governor of New York in 1928 During 1929 the USA slips into a major economic Depression FDR runs for the Presidency in 1932

Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected President in 1933 and pledged “A New Deal for the American People” The New Deal was a risky plan to relive the tight grip of the Great Depression “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” 1933 First Fireside Chat

Franklin D. Roosevelt December 7, 1941 Japan bombs Peal Harbor, Hawaii FDR asks Congress for a declaration of War on December 8. After being elected an historic 4th term, FDR leads USA through WWII FDR dies April12, 1945, never experiencing V-day

Harry Truman

Harry Truman Served in WWI as a soldier, from Missouri Became the President of the USA on April 12th, 1945 after FDR’s sudden death Attended the last “Big Three Summit” with Churchill and Stalin in 1945

Harry Truman Made the decision to use the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagisaki, Japan Brought the Truman Doctrine to Congress “America will resist Communism” Expanded New Deal Programs

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

General Douglas MacArthur

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Born Nov. 30, 1874 to a noble family While fighting in the Boer War, Churchill was captured and escaped a Boer Prison Camp 1901- Joined the House of Commons 1940-45 & 1951-55 was the British Prime Minister “British Bulldog”

Winston Churchill During Hitler’s London Blitz, Churchill rallied the Britons, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” About the resilience of the British people… “For a thousand years, men will say, ‘This was their finest hour.’” Some consider him Britain’s best war leader

Winston Churchill Knighted in 1953 and also wins the Nobel Prize for The History of the Second World War Dies in London in 1965

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin 1879 Born in Georgia 1900 Joseph Dugashvili becomes “Stalin” or man of steel 1907-1917 Spent 7 years in prison for robberies to fund Bolshevik Party 1917 Bolsheviks take over Russian government 1924 Lenin dies and Stalin vies for power of the Communist Party, ousting Leon Trotsky

Joseph Stalin In 1934, Stalin lead the Great Purge to deport and/or kill all enemies. Overall 800,000 people were killed and 4 million were purged 1939 Stalin made a non-aggression pact with Hitler Hitler quickly dissolves the pact, invades the USSR and Stalin joins forces with the Allies during World War II 1953 Stalin dies

Benito Mussolini Born the son of a socialist blacksmith Was a brute- expelled twice from school for stabbing classmates 1919 Organized discontented Italians into the Fascist Party Promised to end corruption and restore order

Benito Mussolini Wanted to restore the “Glory that was Rome” Il Duce- “The Leader” Fascism- an authoritarian government that is not communist, but exhibits extreme nationalism, military action, violence, and most of all blind loyalty to the state Brutally murdered in 1945

Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler Born in 1889 in Austria-Hungary 1919 member of Midget German Labor Party, later the Nazi Party 1923 Jailed and writes Mein Kampf, a book describing his extreme hatred for Jews and his plan for his master race

Adolf Hitler 1933 Named Chancellor of Germany 1935 Enacted Nuremburg Laws, set restrictions on Jews 1938 enacted Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass to intimidate Jews by ransacking Jewish shops 1939 Germany invades Poland and WWII begins Hitler killed more than 6 million Jews in concentration camps Hitler senses defeat and commits suicide with Eva Braun in his bunker

Emperor Hirohito Reigned from 1926-1989

Hideki Tojo Prime Minister of Japan from 1941-1944

Hideki Tojo Eventually tried and convicted of war crimes. Hung on Dec 23, 1948

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