Name: Franklin D' Roosevelt

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Name Franklin D. Roosevelt
Position President
Country United States
Type of Govt Democracy
Years in Office1933-1945
1. Helped America survive the Great Depression 2.
Elected President four times 3. Tried to remain
neutral during WWII but gave weapons to GB 4.
Entered the US in WWII after Pearl Harbor 5. Died
in office of a brain hemorrhage (April, 1945)
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Name Adolf Hitler
Position Dictator
Country Germany
Type of Govt Fascism (Nazism)
Years in Office1933-1945

• 1. Used fear of communism to gain power
• 2. Wanted to control Europe (World?) started
  WWII
• 3. Responsible for 13 million deaths at
  concentration camps
• 4. Committed suicide in 1945 to avoid capture

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Name Winston Churchill
Position Prime Minister (Pres.)
Country Great Britain
Type of Govt Democracy
Years in Office 1940-45, 1950-55

• 1. Worked hard to remain friends with the United
  States
• 2. A very stubborn and brutally honest person
• 3. Guided Britain through World War II
• 4. Was defeated in an election in 1945 (after the
  war)
• 5. Re-elected in 1950 resigned in 1955

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Name Benito Mussolini
Position Dictator
Country Italy
Type of Govt Fascism
Years in Office 1922-1943

• 1. Used fear of communism to take control of
  Italy
• 2. Wanted to rebuild the Ancient Roman Empire
• 3. Wanted to show that Italy was a strong power
• 4. Often seen as the Little Brother of Germany
• 5. Was arrested and executed by Italian
  Nationalists in 1945

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Name Joseph Stalin
Position Dictator
Country Soviet Union
Type of Govt Communism
Years in Office 1929-1953

• 1. Used violence and intimidation to gain control
• 2. Responsible for the deaths of nearly 20
  million (some est. 50 million)
• 3. Very Anti-Democracy but hated Germany more
• 4. Greatly distrusted America after WWII the
  Cold War

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Name Hideki Tojo
Position Prime Minister
Country Japan
Type of Govt Oligarchy
Years in Office 1941-1944

• 1. Also a General in the Japanese Army
• 2. Directed the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor
• 3. Resigned because he believed Japan would not
  win the war
• 4. Sentenced to death for war crimes, executed in
  1948

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Name Harry S. Truman
Position President (V.P. under FDR)
Country United States
Type of Govt Democracy
Years in Office 1945-1953

• 1. Became President after FDR had died
• 2. Always accepted responsibility for Americas
  actions
• 3. The only world leader in history to use atomic
  weapons in war
• 4. Greatly distrusted Soviet Union after WWII
  the Cold War
• 5. Led U.S. into the Korean War 1950-1953

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Name Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rank General
Position Supreme Allied Commander
Country United States

• 1. Was in charge of all Allied forces in Western
  Europe
• 2. Commanded more than 4,500,000 troops in 1944
• 3. Directed the Normandy invasion known as D-Day
• 4. Elected President US in 1953-1960
• 5. Negotiated the end of US involvement in the
  Korean War, 1953