SS-WWII People
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- Douglass MacArthur
- a general for the U.S. military. commanded allied forces in the South Pacific
- Allies
- Great Britain, U.S., Soviet Union, and France. United against the Axis
- Neville Chamberlain
- British prime minster before Churchill. Agreed to appease Hitler at the Munich Conference
- Joseph Stalin
- successor of Lenin, turned Soviet Union into a dictatorship
- Tuskegee Airmen
- all black unit of fighter pilots. trained in Tuskegee Alabama. won many awards for bravery and never lost a single pilot
- Franklin D. Roosivelt
- 32nd president. led the country into WWII
- Benito Mussolini
- dictator of Italy. used the anger of his people about Italy's treatment in the Versailles Treaty to gain power
- Navajo Code Talkers
- Native Americans from the Navajo tribe used their own language to make a code for the U.S. military that the Japanese could not desipher
- The 442nd
- a segregated all Japanese regiment for the Allied Forces. became the most highly decorated military unit in U.S. history
- Winston Churchill
- prime minster of Great Britain (successor of Neville Chamberlain) during the Battle of Britain in which German planes bombed London
- Hideki Tojo
- Japanese WWII war general
- Harry S. Truman
- became 33rd president after Roosevelt's death in office. authorized the use of the atomic bomb on Japan
- Axis
- Germany, Italy, and Japan. fought against the Allies
- Nazis
- Hitler's political party. otherwise known as the National Socialists German Worker's Party. Helped him gain power in Germany.
- Emperor Hirohito
- emperor of Japan during WWII. his people viewed him as a god
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- United States general who supervised D-Day. eventually became the 34th president.
- Adolf Hitler
- dictator of Germany/ leader of the Nazi Party
- Charles De Gaulle
- French General/Statesman
- George Marshall
- United States general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program