WORLD WAR II
Totalitarian Leaders Italy Germany Soviet Union Japan
Soviet Union Joseph Stalin – “Man of Steel” Great Purge 1930’s – 8-13 Million Dead Totalitarian – Government- Total Control
Italy Benito Mussolini – Il Duce – “The Chief” Fascism – Strong Central Government, powerful dictator
Germany Adolf Hitler Nazism – National Socialist Germans Workers Party Mein Kampf – Used “The Blitz” as a weapon of terror – Genocide against Jews
Japan Isoroku Yamamoto
Japan Emperor Hirohito
Allied Leaders United States Great Britain “Free” Free French
US PRESIDENT Franklin D. Roosevelt – Elected 4 terms – Led US Great Depression WW II – Dies April 12, 1945
Successor to Roosevelt Harry S. Truman – V-E Day May 7, 1945 – Authorized the use of the Atomic Bombs Hiroshima Aug. 6, 1945 Nagasaki Aug. 9, 1945 – Independence, MO
Great Britain Sir Winston Churchill
Free French Charles de Gaulle – Forced to England by Nazi’s
Allied Military Commanders
Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Commander of D-Day
British Military Commander Field Marshall Montgomery
D-Day
Eisenhower with the troops just before the D-Day invasion Northern France Turning point in the war
Most Famous Photo Iwo Jima – Mt. Suribachi – Only 3 men from this photo survived to leave the island
Victory in the Pacific Gen. Douglas MacArthur – Signs the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri – Tokyo Bay – September 2, 1945 Following 2 atomic bombs in Hiroshimo and Nagasaki