WORLD WAR II Totalitarian Leaders Italy Germany Soviet Union Japan.

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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