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| Dwight Eisenhower | Supreme Commander of Allied invasion of Normandy, directed Allied invasion of Normandy, & the campaign from D-Day until Germany surrendered. 34th President of U.S. (1953-1961). |
| Douglas MacArthur | Organized island-hopping offensive & Supreme Commander of Allied powers, presided over the Japanese surrender on 9-2-45. |
| Adolph Hitler | Dictator of German Nazi movement. He started W.W. II on 9-1-39 for control of central Europe. |
| Benito Mussolini | Prime of Italy, dictator of Fascist regime, defeated in 1942. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 32nd President of U.S. 1933-1945 (4 terms). |
| Harry S. Truman | Became 33rd President (1945-53) upon FDR's death. Authorized dropping of atomic bombs. |
| Hideki Tojo | Minister of War (1940-41) and Premier of Japan. Hanged as a war criminal |
| Neville Chamberlain | British statesman & Prime Minister of England (1937-41). Advocated appeasement of Italy & Germany. Resigned in 1940. |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Britain (1940-45) insisted on Hitler's unconditional surrender. |
| Joseph Stalin | Georgian Marxist revolutionary & Dictator of USSR (1928-53) |
| Erwin Rommel | German Field Marshal, led 1940 invasion of France, & commanded Afrika Korps. |
| Isoroku Yamamoto | Planned and directed attack on Pearl Harbor (12-7-41) , defeated at Battle of Midway (6-1-42), killed when his plane was shot down over Solomon Islands. |
| Showa Hirohito | 24th Emperior of Japan (1926-1989). Against militarism of 1930s but remaining silent drew Japan into WW II. |
| Chester Nimitz | Commander of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific. |
| George S. Patton | U.S. general who broke through German lines in 1944. |
| Omar Bradley | U.S. general who led the breakout from the beaches and into occupied France in 1944. |
| George C. Marshall | Roosevelt's top military adviser who favored an Allied invasion of German-occupied France. |
| Bernard Montgomery | British general who stopped Rommel's advance in the Battle of El Alamein. |
| Erwin Rommel | General Hitler sent to fight the Allies for 2 years in Libya and Egypt. |
| A. Philip Randolph | Planned a march on Washington D.C. to protest treatment of African American workers. |
| Rosie the Riveter | A fictional female worker during W.W. II who symbolized female contributions to the war effort. |
