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  • American History
    • American History I >
      • Unit 1 - Worlds Collide
      • Unit 2 - Adolescent Colonies
      • Unit 3 - Seeds of Rebellion
      • Unit 4 - Revolutionary America
      • Unit 5 - The New Nation
      • Unit 6 - Expansion and Reform
      • Unit 7 - Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
      • Unit 8 - The Great West
    • American History II >
      • Unit 9 - The Gilded Age
      • Unit 10 - The Progressive Era
      • Unit 11 - The American Empire
      • Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression
      • Unit 13 - World War II
      • Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions
      • Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions
      • Unit 16 - Modern America
  • World History
    • Early History >
      • Unit I - Origins
      • Unit II - Ancient Greece
      • Unit III - Rise and Fall of Rome
      • Unit IV - The Age of Faith
      • Unit V - Late Medieval World
      • Unit VI - Renaissance and Discovery
    • Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Crisis of Faith
      • Unit VIII - Revolutionary World
      • Unit IX - Industrial Imperialism
      • Unit X - The Great War
      • Unit XI - World War II
      • Unit XII - Cold War & Globalization
  • AP European History
    • Early Modern History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
    • Late Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Current Events

People to Know

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BENITO MUSSOLINI

ITALY
​​(r. 1922-1945
)
  • Italian leader and founder of fascism that sided with Hitler and Germany in WWII.
  • overthrown and assassinated by the Italian Resistance in 1945
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HIDEKI TOJO

JAPAN
​​(r.1941–1944
)
  • Japanese prime minister during WWII who helped lead Pearl Harbor Attack
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ADOLF HITLER

GERMANY
(r.1933–1945
)
  • founder of the German Nazi Party and chancellor of the Third Reich
  • ruled as an absolute dictator of Germany pursuing aggressive nationalist policies that caused the outbreak of World War II
  • his regime was infamous for the extermination of millions of people, especially European Jews in the Holocaust
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (FDR)

UNITED STATES
(r.1933–1945
)
  • American president who led the United States throughout most of World War II after the Bombing of Pearl Harbor
  • together with Churchill, helped lay the foundation of the United Nations after the war.
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HARRY TRUMAN

UNITED STATES
(r.1945–1953
)
  • FDR's vice-president who succeeded him upon his death in April 1945 and led the country through the last few months of World War II,
  • made the controversial decision to drop atomic bombs against two Japanese cities in August 1945 to win the war.
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HIROHITO

JAPAN
​​(r.1926–1989
)
  • emperor of Japan during WWII whose people viewed him as a god
  • pushed Japan's militarization of in the 1930's eventually leading to Japan's invasion of China and involvement in WWII.
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JOSEPH STALIN

SOVIET UNION
​(1922–1952
)
  • Soviet leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party creating a totalitarian state by purging all opposition
  • quickly industrialized the Soviet Union through his 5-Year Plans
  • led the Soviet Union during World War II (Great Patriotic War)
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WINSTON 
​
CHURCHILL

UNITED KINGDOM
​(r.1940–1945
)
  • British prime minister who led Britain throughout most of World War II.
  • together with FDR, helped lay the foundation of the United Nations after the war.
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GEN. DWIGHT  D.
EISENHOWER

UNITED STATES
​(1890–1969
)
  • leader of Allied forces in Europe during World War II
  • Allied commander of D-Day invasion
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  • American History
    • American History I >
      • Unit 1 - Worlds Collide
      • Unit 2 - Adolescent Colonies
      • Unit 3 - Seeds of Rebellion
      • Unit 4 - Revolutionary America
      • Unit 5 - The New Nation
      • Unit 6 - Expansion and Reform
      • Unit 7 - Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
      • Unit 8 - The Great West
    • American History II >
      • Unit 9 - The Gilded Age
      • Unit 10 - The Progressive Era
      • Unit 11 - The American Empire
      • Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression
      • Unit 13 - World War II
      • Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions
      • Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions
      • Unit 16 - Modern America
  • World History
    • Early History >
      • Unit I - Origins
      • Unit II - Ancient Greece
      • Unit III - Rise and Fall of Rome
      • Unit IV - The Age of Faith
      • Unit V - Late Medieval World
      • Unit VI - Renaissance and Discovery
    • Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Crisis of Faith
      • Unit VIII - Revolutionary World
      • Unit IX - Industrial Imperialism
      • Unit X - The Great War
      • Unit XI - World War II
      • Unit XII - Cold War & Globalization
  • AP European History
    • Early Modern History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
    • Late Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Current Events