WWII%20Leaders

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WWII Leaders
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Great Britain Neville Chamberlain

• Allied Powers
• British Prime Minister 1937-40
• Architect of Appeasement
• Accepted Hitlers claim to the Sudentenland
  (Czech) in Munich Pact
• Honored pledge to defend Poland and entered WWII.

• Peace for our time.

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Great Britain Winston Churchill

• Allied Powers
• British PM May 1940-45
• Predicted appeasement would lead to war
• Rallied British citizens in
• Battle of Britain
• Member of Big Three

We shall never surrender!
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France Charles DeGaulle

• Allied Powers
• Leader of the Free French 1940-44
• Worked to liberate France from Axis control
• Created the Provisional Government of the French
  Republic

Le General or "le Grand Charles"
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U.S. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Allied Powers
• U.S. President 1932- 45
• AmericaIsolationist but he
• sympathized with Britain
• March 1941Lend-Lease Act
• Aug 1941 Atlantic Charter
• Dec 1941 Pearl Harbor Day of Infamy
• Member of Big Three

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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U.S.S.R.- Stalin

• Axis/Allied Powers
• Soviet Premier 1929-53
• Nazi-Soviet Non- Aggression Pact
• Joins Allies after German invasion of USSR
• Member of Big Three

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Germany - Hitler

• Axis Powers
• German Fuhrer 1933-45
• Violates treaty
• Aggression leads to outbreak of WWII
• Aims to conquer/world domination
• Holocaust

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Italy - Mussolini

• Axis Powers
• Il Duce 1922-43
• Rebuilds Roman Empire
• Waits to enter WWII until June 1940
• Italian army weak and ineffective
• Sept 1943 Italian surrender to Allies

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Japan Emperor Hirohito

• Axis Powers
• Emperor of Japan 1926-1945
• Seen as a living god
• His role in WWII unclear Pawn of the Japanese
  militarists OR
• Informed participant on the expansionist
  policies?