| A | B |
|---|
| Herbert Hoover | 31st President of the U.S. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 32nd President of the U.S. He was president through the economic downturn and the majority of the war. |
| Benito Mussolini | Dictator of Italy. |
| Haile Selassie | Leader of Ethiopia who called on the League of Nations for help. |
| Adolf Hitler | Dictator of Germany. |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the Soviet Union. |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain. |
| Wendell Willkie | Republican nominee for President in 1940. He pledged not to send Americans into any foreign wars. |
| Jeanette Rankin | The only Representative who voted against war (also voted against entry into World War I.) |
| A. Philip Randolph | Head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He organized a march on Washington. His meeting with the President resulted in the government ordering an end to discrimination in hiring practices from employers doing business with the government. |
| Peter Ota | His family was forced to leave everything and lived in a relocation center. |
| Erwin Rommel | German general who led his forces in North Africa. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Commander of the U.S. troops in Europe. He was in charge of the invasion of Europe. |
| Thomas E. Dewey | Governor of New York who was nominated by the Republicans to run in the election of 1944. |
| Harry S. Truman | Vice President under the 32nd President ; he became the 33rd President of the United States. |
| Omar Bradley | General who toured one of the death camps. |
| Margaret Bourke-White | Photographer who made a record of the horrors of the death camps. |
| Douglas MacArthur | Commander of the U.S. forces in the Pacific. He was forced to withdraw from the Philippines and later triumphantly returned to the Philippines. |
