Leaders of World War ii
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was one of the most powerful and infamous dictators of the 20th century. He was also the leader of the Nazi.
Not long afterWorld War 1, Hitler rose to power in the National Socialist German Workers Party, thus taking control of the German government in 1933. His establishment of concentration camps to inter Jews and other groups he thought were a threat to the Aryan supremacy result in the death of over 6 million people in the Holocaust. When he attacked Poland in 1939, that started World War 2. By 1941 Germany had occupied much of Europe and North Africa . The tide of the war shortly turned following the invasion of Russia and the U.S entry into the battle. Hitler killed himself shortly before Germany's defeat.
Winston Churchill
One of the best known, and some say one of the greatest, statesmen of the 20th century was Winston Churchill. Born into a life of privilege , he dedicated himself to public service. His legacy is that of a complicated one, he was an idealist, a pragmatist, an orator, a soldier, an advocate of progressive social reforms and an unapologetic elitist, a defender of democracy as well as of British's fading empire. For many people in Great Britain and elsewhere Winston Churchill was that of a hero to them.
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) between the years 1929 to 1953. The Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society to an industrial and military superpower under Stalin. Stalin ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign. Born into a family of poverty, Stalin became involved in revolutionary politics along with criminal activities as a young man. After Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin died, Stalin outmaneuvered his rivals for control of the party. Once in power he had potential enemies executed or sent to labor camps and he collectivized farming. During World War 2 he aligned with the United States and Britain but afterwards engaged in a tense relationship with the West known as the Cold War. After his death, the Soviets initiated a de-Stanlinization process.
General Tôjô Hideki
Wartime leader of Japan's government, General Tôjô Hideki, became for Allied propagandists one of the most commonly caricatured members of Japan's military dictatorship throughout the Pacific war. Shrewd at bureaucratic infighting and fiercely partisan in presenting the army’s perspective while army minister, he was surprisingly indecisive as national leader.
Benito Mussolini
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini rose to power in the wake of World War 1 as a leading proponent of Fascism. He was originally a revolutionary socialist, he forged the paramilitary Facsit movement in 1919 and became the prime minister in 1922. Mussolini's military expenditures in Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Albania made Italy predominant in the Mediterranean region, through they exhausted his armed forces by the late 1930s. Mussolini allied himself with Hitler, relying on the German dictator to prop up his leadership during World War II, but he was assinated shortly after the Germans surrender in Italy in 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as governor of New York when hew as elected as the nation's 32nd president in 1932. With the country mired in th depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt immediatly acted to restore public confidence, proclaiming a bank holiday and speaking directly to the public in a series of radio broadcast, called "fireside chats." His ambitious slate of New Deal programs and reforms redefined the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. Reelected again in 1936, 1940', and 1944, FDR led America to victory over Nazi Germany and it's allies in World War II. He spearheaded the successful wartime alliance between Britian, the Soviet Union and the U.S and helped lay the groundwork down for the post-war peace organization that would later become the United Nations. The only American president in history to be elected four times, Rossevelt died in office in April 1945.
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was an American General who commended the Southwest Pacific in World War II, over saw th successful allied occupation of postwar Japan and led the United Nations forces in the Korean War. MacArthur was a larger than life, controversial figure, he was talented, outspoken, and in many eyes egotistical. He graduated from the U.S Miliatry Academy and field marshal of the Philippines, were he helped organize a military. In World War II, he famously returned to liberate the Philippines in 1944 after it had fallen to the Japanese. MacArthur led the United Nations forces during the start of Koran War, but later clashed with President Harry
Truman over war policy and was thus removed from command.
Dwight David Eisenhower
As supreme leader of the allied forces in Western Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower led giant invasions of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day. In 1952, leading Republicans had convinced Eisenhower to run for president. He won and served two terms in
the White House. During his presidency, Eisenhower managed the Cold War- era tensions with the Soviet Union under looming threat of nuclear weapons, ended the war with Korea in 1953 and authorized a number of covert anti-communist operations by the CIA around the world. On the home front of America the Americans were enjoying a period of relative prosperity.
Eisenhower strengthened Social Security, created the massive new interstate highway system, and maneuvered behind the scenes to discredit the rabid anti-communist senator Joseph McCarthy. Even though Eisenhower was popular throughout his administration he failed to in the protection of the civil rights for African Americans by failing to fully enforce the Supreme Court's mandate for the desecration of schools in Brown v Boars of Education.
Adolf Hitler was one of the most powerful and infamous dictators of the 20th century. He was also the leader of the Nazi.
Not long afterWorld War 1, Hitler rose to power in the National Socialist German Workers Party, thus taking control of the German government in 1933. His establishment of concentration camps to inter Jews and other groups he thought were a threat to the Aryan supremacy result in the death of over 6 million people in the Holocaust. When he attacked Poland in 1939, that started World War 2. By 1941 Germany had occupied much of Europe and North Africa . The tide of the war shortly turned following the invasion of Russia and the U.S entry into the battle. Hitler killed himself shortly before Germany's defeat.
Winston Churchill
One of the best known, and some say one of the greatest, statesmen of the 20th century was Winston Churchill. Born into a life of privilege , he dedicated himself to public service. His legacy is that of a complicated one, he was an idealist, a pragmatist, an orator, a soldier, an advocate of progressive social reforms and an unapologetic elitist, a defender of democracy as well as of British's fading empire. For many people in Great Britain and elsewhere Winston Churchill was that of a hero to them.
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) between the years 1929 to 1953. The Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society to an industrial and military superpower under Stalin. Stalin ruled by terror, and millions of his own citizens died during his brutal reign. Born into a family of poverty, Stalin became involved in revolutionary politics along with criminal activities as a young man. After Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin died, Stalin outmaneuvered his rivals for control of the party. Once in power he had potential enemies executed or sent to labor camps and he collectivized farming. During World War 2 he aligned with the United States and Britain but afterwards engaged in a tense relationship with the West known as the Cold War. After his death, the Soviets initiated a de-Stanlinization process.
General Tôjô Hideki
Wartime leader of Japan's government, General Tôjô Hideki, became for Allied propagandists one of the most commonly caricatured members of Japan's military dictatorship throughout the Pacific war. Shrewd at bureaucratic infighting and fiercely partisan in presenting the army’s perspective while army minister, he was surprisingly indecisive as national leader.
Benito Mussolini
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini rose to power in the wake of World War 1 as a leading proponent of Fascism. He was originally a revolutionary socialist, he forged the paramilitary Facsit movement in 1919 and became the prime minister in 1922. Mussolini's military expenditures in Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Albania made Italy predominant in the Mediterranean region, through they exhausted his armed forces by the late 1930s. Mussolini allied himself with Hitler, relying on the German dictator to prop up his leadership during World War II, but he was assinated shortly after the Germans surrender in Italy in 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as governor of New York when hew as elected as the nation's 32nd president in 1932. With the country mired in th depths of the Great Depression, Roosevelt immediatly acted to restore public confidence, proclaiming a bank holiday and speaking directly to the public in a series of radio broadcast, called "fireside chats." His ambitious slate of New Deal programs and reforms redefined the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. Reelected again in 1936, 1940', and 1944, FDR led America to victory over Nazi Germany and it's allies in World War II. He spearheaded the successful wartime alliance between Britian, the Soviet Union and the U.S and helped lay the groundwork down for the post-war peace organization that would later become the United Nations. The only American president in history to be elected four times, Rossevelt died in office in April 1945.
Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was an American General who commended the Southwest Pacific in World War II, over saw th successful allied occupation of postwar Japan and led the United Nations forces in the Korean War. MacArthur was a larger than life, controversial figure, he was talented, outspoken, and in many eyes egotistical. He graduated from the U.S Miliatry Academy and field marshal of the Philippines, were he helped organize a military. In World War II, he famously returned to liberate the Philippines in 1944 after it had fallen to the Japanese. MacArthur led the United Nations forces during the start of Koran War, but later clashed with President Harry
Truman over war policy and was thus removed from command.
Dwight David Eisenhower
As supreme leader of the allied forces in Western Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower led giant invasions of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day. In 1952, leading Republicans had convinced Eisenhower to run for president. He won and served two terms in
the White House. During his presidency, Eisenhower managed the Cold War- era tensions with the Soviet Union under looming threat of nuclear weapons, ended the war with Korea in 1953 and authorized a number of covert anti-communist operations by the CIA around the world. On the home front of America the Americans were enjoying a period of relative prosperity.
Eisenhower strengthened Social Security, created the massive new interstate highway system, and maneuvered behind the scenes to discredit the rabid anti-communist senator Joseph McCarthy. Even though Eisenhower was popular throughout his administration he failed to in the protection of the civil rights for African Americans by failing to fully enforce the Supreme Court's mandate for the desecration of schools in Brown v Boars of Education.