People Flashcards
Benito Mussolini
Italian dictator
Put state above individual
Crushed any political opponent
Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Germany
Started WWII
in charge of holocost
Committed suicide when Germany began to lose
Francisco Franklin
Nationalistic leader in Spain
Aided by Germany
Faced the republican side
Josef Stalin
Leader of soviet Russia
Communist
Took out anyone who opposed him
Strongly believed in putting state above individual.
Neville Chamberlain
Prime minister of Great Britain at the beginning of the war
Attended the Munich conference
Winston Churchill
Took over after chamberlain
Stayed prime minister almost until the end of the war
Successfully kept citizens calm during Battle of Britain
Franklin Roosevelt
First president to serve more than two terms
Got elected again because he did a good job getting America out of GD
He wanted to get involved in the war - started the lend lease program
Met with Churchill at Atlantic charter
Declared war on japan after they attacked us
African Americans
Worked in factories
Demanded better working conditions after receiving low wages
Mexicans
US started bracero program, let Mexicans come to America to work
Part of zoot suit riots after racial tensions
Fought alongside Americans
Japanese
We put them in internment camps
General Erwin Rommel
Leader of German force in North Africa
Attempted to take the Suez Canal from the British
Tuskegee airmen
Group of African American pilots
Helped America open up southern front on Italy
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Held the Philippines Had few troops to hold the islands Left the Philippines His troops he left had to surrender Quoted "I shall return" before he left
Oppenheimer
Lead researcher of the atomic bomb
Truman
Became president after FDR’s death
Atomic bomb was dropped under his control
