3. ALLIED POWER.
• The main leaders of allied powers were:
• Chaing Kai Shek joined the military at an early age and
participated in the overthrow of the Ch'ing Dynasty.
• Winston Churchill Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister
of Great Britain.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt President Franklin Roosevelt was
in the 1st year of an unprecedented third term as President.
• Josef Stalin Josef Stalin, the Soviet Union's war leader during
World War II (the Great Patriotic War to the Soviets), came to
power after the death of Vladamire Lenin in the late 1920s.
4. ALLIED POWER.
• The main generals and admirals were:
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower graduated from
West Point Military Academy in 1915 and rose quickly through
the ranks of the United States Army.
• Douglas MacArthur General MacArthur served as the
Commander of United States Forces Far East from 1941 until
the end of the war in 1945.
• Bernard Montgomery Great Britain's most famous
commander of World War II, Bernard Montgomery, would
end the war with the rank of Field Marshall.
• Chester Nimitz Admiral Chester Nimitz served as Commander-
in-Chief US Pacific.
• George S. Patton He served in the cavalry in the early part of
the 20th century, was an early convert to tank warfare.
5.
6. AXIS POWER.
• The main leaders of axis power were:
• Emperor Hirohito Considered a living god by his people,
Hirohito assumed the Japanese throne in 1926.
• Adolph Hitler Austrian born, Adolf Hitler would rise to become
the leader of Germany and one of the most hated men in all of
history.
• Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini worked as both a
schoolteacher and as a journalist in his early years He also
fought in World War II.
• Tojo Hideki Tojo Hideki, a career Japanese officer, served as
both Prime Minister for Japan as well as Army Minister.
7. AXIS POWER.
• The main generals and admirals were:
• Karl Donitz Admiral Karl Donitz was the German commander
of the U-Boats and the German Navy.
• Hermann Goering Hermann Goering, a veteran World War I
pilot, served as the Commander-in-Chief of the German
Luftwaffe.
• Erwin Rommel General Erwin Rommel was one of Germany's
best generals.
• Yamamoto Isoroku Admiral Yamamoto, a career naval officer
in the Imperial Japanese Navy, planned the sneak attack on
Pearl Harbor.
