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Nevill Chamberlain
British Prime Minister (1937 to 1940). Felt like Germany was unfairly penalized by the Versailles Treaty and wanted to maintain peace. Leadership at the Munich Conference,promoted appeasement,granting Hitler's demands for return of Sudetenland in exchange for his promise that he would not seek any more territory
Winston Churchill
Great Britain's Prime Minister. Eloquent speaker,steeled the British to defy the Nazis (even while being bombed nightly).
Charles DeGualle
French general who escaped to England after the fall of France. Led the Free French forces during the Allied invasion of Europe. Would later go on to serve as France's President
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th president,U.S. Commander of the European Theater of Operations(ETO),commanded U.S forces in North Africa and directed the invasion of Sicily,became the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces,Mastermind D-Day Invasion
Adolf Hitler
Fascist leader of Germany. Architect of the Holocaust
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd president,created the New Deal,argued against isolationism and maintained an alliance between U.S. and Britain with Communist Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Leader of Soviet Union
Harry Truman
FDR's vice president,took out the order to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki after FDR died of a stroke on April 12th,1945
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