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WORLD WAR IIWORLD 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
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
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
