The Major Players of WWII

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT• US President 1933 – 1945

• Lend-Lease Act

• Pearl Harbor

• US Enters the War

• Dies in office on

April 12, 1945

FDR-Video Clip (click on screen to play)

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HARRY S. TRUMAN

• VP for 82 days• US President

– 1945-1953

• Dropping of the A-Bomb• Truman Doctrine

– Policy of containment against Communism

• Marshall Plan– Help rebuild post-war

Europe

Gen. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

• Allied Commander-Europe

• In charge of planning and implementing D-Day invasion

• Supreme Command of all Allied forces until the end of the war in Europe

EISENHOWER-Video Clip (click screen to play)

Gen. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

• Commander of US Forces in the Pacific

• “island hopping:” take some islands and bypass others all the way to Japan

• Accepted Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri

POST WWII:• Oversees the rebuilding of

Japan after WWII• Interim leader of Japan

1945-1948

Gen. GEORGE MARSHALL

• Chief of Staff for US Army during WWII

• MARSHALL PLAN– Plan to rebuild war- torn

Europe– $13 billion in aid to help

rebuild European economy

• WHY?– Belief that Communism was

successful in countries with economic problems.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

• Prime Minister of UK– 1940-1945

• Fight off the Germans in the Battle of Britain

• Ultimately led Britain to victory against the Axis

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GENERAL HIDEKI TOJO• General in the Army

– Supports Japanese expansion and invades Manchuria and China in the 1930s

• Prime Minister of Japan– 1941-1944

• Military leader during WWII– Believed to have been behind

the attack on Pearl Harbor– Sentenced to death for war

crimes – executed Dec. 23, 1948

HIROHITO

• Emperor of Japan– 1926-1989

• While in Power:– Invades Manchuria (1931)– Rest of China (1937)– Pearl Harbor– A-Bombs dropped on

Hiroshima and Nagasaki– Forced military leaders to an

unconditional surrender on Aug. 14, 1945

REVIEW-WWII Dictators

A.Leader of Nazi Germany– Adolf Hitler

B.Leader of USSR– Joseph Stalin

C.Military leader and Prime Minister of Japan– Hideki Tojo

D.Fascist leader of Italy– Benito Mussolini

E.Dictator of Spain– Francisco Franco

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