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Gen. Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during the initial landings at Leyte in the Pacific, in October, 1944.


A U.S. Infantry anti-tank crew fires on Nazis who machine-gunned their vehicle in Holland in 1944.


This captured Japanese photograph shows the December 7, 1941, attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor.


The U.S. Navy ship Shaw explodes during the Pearl Harbor attack against the American base by Japanese planes.


The USS Arizona burns after an explosion during the Pearl Harbor attack.


These Allied prisoners are photographed during the 1942 March of Death from Bataan to a prison camp in Cabanatuan, the Philippines.


On June 30, 1943, American troops huddle behind tree trunks during a heavy rainstorm on Rendova Island in the Solomon chain.


A U.S. Marine wears the grime of battle on his face after two days and nights of fighting on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.


U.S. Marines pose in front of a Japanese dugout on Cape Totkina on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, after they cleared it of defenders in January, 1944.


The American flag is raised on Iwo Jima in his photo taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press.


A U.S. Marine takes aim at the enemy during fierce fighting on Okinawa in 1945.


Marine Maj. Gen. Lemuel Shepherd, commanding general of the 6th Marine Division, consults a map on an Okinawan ridge in June, 1945.


Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay, waves from the cockpit of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb in history.


New York City's Times Square became the focus of celebrations and sudden affections in the immediate aftermath of World War II.


A dense column of smoke rises over Nagasaki, Japan, after the second atomic bomb was dropped by the U.S.


The defendants' dock is shown here during the post-war trials for war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany.


Gaunt prisoners of war at Aomori camp near Yokohama cheer rescuers from the U.S. Navy on August 29, 1945.


Two Coast Guardsmen pay silent homage to the memory of a fellow Coast Guardsman in an American cemetery in the South Pacific.


Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs as the Supreme Allied Commander of the Pacific Theater during formal surrender ceremonies in Tokyo Bay.


Two U.S. officers plant the American flag on Guam minutes after Marines and Army assault troops landed there in July, 1944

Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was the Chancellor of Germany through out World War 2. He was the leader of the Nazi regimen, and thought to be the biggest contributor to the war. He blamed the Jews for Germany's down fall in World War 1; so he began setting up Concentration and death camps throughout Europe. This was known as the Holocaust. An estimated 5 million Jews died during the Holocaust due to Hitler and the Nazi Party. On April 30th, 1945, with the allies less then a mile from his underground bunker, Hitler committed suicide.

 
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini 		Born in 1883, Mussolini was active in the socialist party until they supported the allies in World War 1. He resigned in 1915, and when they entered the war, he joined the Italian Army. In 1922, King Victor Emmanuel III made Mussolini the head of the fascist party to prevent a revolt in Italy. On June 10th, 1940, He declared war on Britain and France, and four months later, invaded Greece. Defeats weakened his prestige, and facing an allied invasion, the King forced him to resign. He was imprisoned, but rescued by German air troops on September 12th, 1943. Italian Partisans captured him while trying to escape to Switzerland and on April 28th, he was shot.

Franklin D. Roosevelt 		FDR was born in New York on 30th January, 1882. In 1921, he was diagnosed with poliomyelitis and became almost totally paralyzed. He was elected president in 1932. He brought us through the depressing with many of his "New Deal" programs jump starting the economy. He brought us into the war a few days after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. He died 3 weeks before Germany surrendered on May 7th, 1945. He served 4 terms ad president, more then any other in the past. He is known for bringing us WW2 and the Great Depression.
Joseph STalin
Joseph Stalin 		Joseph Stalin, was born in Georgia on December 21 in 1879. He was the leader of the USSR during World War 2. He sided with the allies in trying to defeat Germany. He was one of the reasons that we dropped the bomb on Japan, to stop the spread of communism into the Far East. The bomb ended the war quickly and stopped all soviet gains. In 1948, he ordered the economic blockade of Berlin, starting the cold war, which would last until the mid-eighties, when the USSR dissolved.

 




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