3. WORLD WAR II

4. Totalitarian Leaders  Italy  Germany  Soviet Union  Japan

5. Soviet Union  Joseph Stalin – “Man of Steel”  Great Purge 1930’s – 8-13 Million Dead  Totalitarian – Government- Total Control

6. Italy  Benito Mussolini – Il Duce – “The Chief”  Fascism – Strong Central Government, powerful dictator

7. Germany  Adolf Hitler  Nazism – National Socialist Germans Workers Party  Mein Kampf – Used “The Blitz” as a weapon of terror – Genocide against Jews

8. Japan  Isoroku Yamamoto

9. Japan  Emperor Hirohito

10. Allied Leaders  United States  Great Britain  “Free” Free French

11. US PRESIDENT  Franklin D. Roosevelt – Elected 4 terms – Led US Great Depression WW II – Dies April 12, 1945

12. 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

13. Great Britain  Sir Winston Churchill

14. Free French  Charles de Gaulle – Forced to England by Nazi’s

15. Allied Military Commanders

16. Supreme Allied Commander  Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower  Commander of D-Day

17. British Military Commander  Field Marshall Montgomery

18. D-Day

19.  Eisenhower with the troops just before the D-Day invasion  Northern France  Turning point in the war

20. Most Famous Photo  Iwo Jima – Mt. Suribachi – Only 3 men from this photo survived to leave the island

21. 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