Transcript The Major Players of WWII

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
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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 CommanderEurope
• In charge of planning
and implementing D-Day
invasion
• Supreme Command of
all Allied forces until the
end of the war in Europe
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• 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. DOUGLAS
MACARTHUR
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:
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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
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B.Leader of USSR
– Joseph Stalin
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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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