Leaders in WWII Instructions Fill in your flipbook
Leaders in WWII Instructions: Fill in your flipbook based on this Power. Point.
Top Half of Flipbook: Winston Churchill
Top Half of Flipbook: Role: Prime Minister of Britain
Top Half of Flipbook: Alliance = Allies
Actions in WWII (Bottom Half): 1. First to see appeasement as a mistake and speak out against Germany.
Actions in WWII: 2. Rallied and mobilized Britain and the Allies in the struggle against the Nazis
Actions in WWII: 3. Part of the “Big Three” allies (Stalin, FDR, Chuchill)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
Role: President of United States (1933 -1945)
Alliance = Allies
Actions in WWII: 1. First favored isolationism, then ordered U. S. into WWII after Pearl Harbor
Actions in WWII: 2. Ordered internment of 110, 000 Japanese Americans
Actions in WWII: 3. Helped plan the invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
Benito Mussolini
Role: Dictator of Italy (19221943)
Alliance = Axis
Actions during WWII 1. Formed an alliance with Germany
Actions during WWII: 2. Used extreme forms of nationalism linked to racism to promote
Actions during WWII 3. Was overthrown in 1943.
Adolf Hitler
Role: Dictator of Germany (1933 -1945)
Alliance = Axis
Actions during WWII: 1. Started war by invading Poland in 1939.
Actions during WWII: 2. Invaded lands hoping to expand the German Empire (Third Reich)
Actions during WWII: 3. Led Nazi party, which killed 11 million
Josef Stalin
Role: Dictator of Soviet Union (19241953)
Alliance = Allies
Actions during WWII: 1. Cooperated with Hitler until Germany invaded USSR
Actions during WWII: 2. Aggressive toward individuals or groups who opposed the government
Actions during WWII: 3. Implemented the “Scorched Earth Policy”
Hideki Tojo
Role: Japanese Prime Minister (1941 -1944)
Alliance = Axis
Actions during WWII: 1. Oversaw the invasion of China and attack on Pearl Harbor
Actions during WWII: 2. President of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association (military organization)
Actions during WWII: 3. Promotes idea of parafascist militarism, used ideology to drive military action
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