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Leaders of World War
Term | Definition |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the US when the war started |
Adolf Hitler | Dictator of Germany/Leader of the Nazi Party |
Benito Mussolini | Dictator of Italy |
Winston Churchill | Prime Minister (Leader) of the British government |
Hideki Tojo | Leader of Japan |
Joseph Stalin | Dictator of Russia (USSR) – Union of Soviet Socialist Republic |
Admiral Chester Nimitz | commander of the U. S. Pacific Fleet |
General Dwight D. Eisenhower | Commander of all of the Allied Forces. Would later become president of the U.S. |
General George S. Patton | Led U.S. Forces in the Battle of the Bulge and the march to Germany |
General Douglas MacArthur | planned the strategy of island hopping. Gain control of the islands in the Pacific from Japan and use them as American military bases to defeat Japan |
President Harry S. Truman | end of the war. Decided to use atomic bomb on Japan in hope of surrender and avoiding invasion that would cost more |
Anne Frank | 13 year old Jewish girl from the Netherlands. Hid with her family for nearly 2 years in a hiding place over her father’s office. She kept a diary which is one of the best accounts of the life of Jews under Nazi rule. She died in a concentration camp |
Allied Powers | |
Axis Power | |
Dictator | |
Fascism | |
Lend-Lease | |
Rationing | |
Victory Gardens | |
Atomic bomb |