World War II

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World War II

• Adolf Hitler, military and political leader of
  Germany 1933 - 1945, launched World War Two and
  bears responsibility for the deaths of millions,
  including six million Jews in the Holocaust.

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Hideki Tojo

• General Hideki Tojo - Prime minister of Japan
  (October 1941 - July 1944).

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USA PRESIDENTS

• Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during World
  War II. Harry S. Truman took over when Roosevelt
  died on April 12, 1945

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HARRY S TRUMAN

• During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry S
  Truman scarcely saw President Roosevelt, and
  received no briefing on the development of the
  atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with
  Soviet Russia. Suddenly these and a host of other
  wartime problems became Truman's to solve when,
  on April 12, 1945, he became President. He told
  reporters, "I felt like the moon, the stars, and
  all the planets had fallen on me."

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CHURCHILL

• Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30
  November 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
  His father was the prominent Tory politician,
  Lord Randolph Churchill. Churchill attended the
  Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before
  embarking on an army career. He saw action on the
  North West Frontier of India and in the Sudan.
  While working as a journalist during the Boer War
  he was captured and made a prisoner-of-war before
  escaping.

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Stalin

• Joseph Stalin was the very brutal Communist
  dictator of Russia (1928-1953).
• In the years before World War 2 Stalin murdered
  or imprisoned almost all of Russia's senior
  military officers, and millions of other Russian
  citizens, in a paranoid and unprecedented wave of
  political terror.

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Benito Mussolini

• The prime minister of Italy (1922-1943).

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The blitz

• The bombs came down in 1940

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The bombs
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guns

• In world war ll there where lots of guns

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