Great Britain
Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain was born March 18, 1869, in Birmingham, England. Neville Chamberlain was the Prime Minister of Great Britain in September 1939 at the beginning of World War II. In May, of 1940, after the Norwegain Campaign, he resigned from office and Winston Churchill took his place.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was born in Bleinheim Palace in Woodstock on November 30th, 1874. Winston Churchill was also the Prime Minister of Great Britain for most of the World War II. His speeched are world renowned. he would attempt to boost the British morale during the worst times with his speeches.
Russia (Soviet Union)
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the most brutal Communist dictator of Russia. He dictated from 1928 to 1953. Before the war, Stalin murdered and/or imprisoned alsomt all of Russia's senior military officers and millions of other innocent Russian civilians. He also sent many of them to forced labor camps. Stalin allied with the United States and Great Britain in World War II but afterward, he engaged in another war with the West, known as the Cold War. Starting in the late 1920's, Joseph Stalin launched a series of five year plans intended to renovate the Soviet Union from a peasant society in an industrial powerhouse. After he died, Russia started to "de-Stalinize" the country.
United States
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. In the summer of 1921, when he was 39, he was diagnosed with Poliomyelitis. Showing mass amounts of courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention, he appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior". In 1928, Roosevelt became the governor of New York. The United States was a neutral country in the war until Japan attacked at Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt then declared war on Japan. Unfortunately though, he didn't live long enough to celebrate the victory witht he Allies in September of 1945.
Harry Truman
Harry Truman became President after the death of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. he made a major impact on the world after he decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan.
France
Charles De Gaulle
Charles De Gaulle was a French general the led the French into World War II. During the 1930s, he wrote books and articles on military subjects, criticising France's reliance on the Miginot Line for defence against Germany and advocating the formation of merchandised armoured columns. His advice went unheeded and in June of 1940, German forced overran France. As Secretary of National Defense and War, De Gaulle refused to go by the French governments truce with the Germans and ran away to London, where he announced the formation of a French government. he became leader of the "Free French." De Gaulle led the major fight against Germany. After World War II, the French made him President of France.
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889, in a small Austrian town on the border of Germany. He served in the Bavarian Army during World War I and then he beccame the leader of the Nazi army of Germany during World War II. The Nazis wanted to make Germany the most powerful country in the world. Hitler and his Nazi army killed over 11 million people during World War II. They killed mostly Jewish people; but also Gypsies, Roman Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the physically and mentally handicapped, and any other people who didn't see his standards for "racial purity." There are many stories and speculations around Hitler's death. It is beleived that he committed suicide. It has also been heard that his wife poisoned him.
Japan
Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo was the Prime Minister of Japan when the attack on Pearl Harbor took place, plunging the Far East into a war which ended with the destruction of Hiroshima in August 1945. For leading Japan into World War II, Tojo was executed as a war criminal.
Emperor Hirohito
On December 25, 1926, Crown Prince Hirohito bacame emperor when former emperor Taisho died. Emperor Hirohito's reign officially began on November 10, 1928, at Kyoto Japan. Hirohito followed tradition and chose a name for his reign. His reign was called "Showa" or "Radiating Peace". he began a military buildup, which led to war in 1941 with the attack on Pearl Harbor and several other attacks on China.
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini was born on July 29th, 1883, to a blacksmith, who did socialist writings, and a Catholic schoolteacher. He was a violent child. He was expelled from several schools for attacking students with a penknife; but he was also very intelligent. Mussolini's father took him to socialist meetings when he was a kid. When he was older, Mussolini worked for a short time as a teacher but after being fired, he moved to Switzerland and drifted from job to job. When the Swiss kicked him out of the country, he moved back to Italy. Benito Mussolini became the Prime Minister of Italy during World War II. He joined forces with Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany, to fight agaisnt the Allied powers. Eventually, the Italian people through him out of office and he was executed by his own people.
Spain and other Countries
Fransisco Franco
General Fransisco Franco was Spain's fascist leader during World War II. Fransisco Franco was guilty for killing over 114 thousand people during the Spanish and Civil War.
Michael Savage
Michael Savage was the Prime Minister of New Zealand during World War II. New Zealand joined on the side of Great Britain.
William King
William King was the Prime Minister of Canada. He also joined on the side of Great Britain.
Robert Menzies
Robert Menzies was the Prime Minister of Australia during the course of World War II. Australia joined forces with the Allies under Great Britain.