Historical figures who played important roles in world war 2?

Answer 1

Winston Churchill - Prime Minister of Great Britain. Franklin D. Roosevelt - President of the United States. Josef Stalin - Leader of USSR Adolf Hitler - Fuhrer of Germany Benito Mussolini - Dictator of Italy Hirohito - Emperor of Japan

Answer 2

The key figures are:

1. Generals in the U.S. Army - Douglas MacArthur defeated the Japanese in the Phillipines and George Patton defeated and the Germans in Germany, Italy, and France.

1, British and Dutch royal families- Saxe/Coburg/Gotha/Windsor-Orange/Nassau

http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/the-british-royal-familys-links-to-nazis-and-eugenicists-alex-jones-reports/

http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/05/01/Royal_Nazis.html

• Neville Chamberlain: The prime minister of Britain from 1937 to 1940, who advocated a policy of appeasement toward the territorial demands of Nazi Germany. This appeasement policy essentially turned a blind eye to Germany's 1938 annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland.
• Winston Churchill: The prime minister of Britain during most of World War II. Churchill was among the most active leaders in resisting German aggression and played a major role in assembling the Allied Powers, including the United States and the USSR.
• James Doolittle: A U.S. Army general best known for leading the famous "Doolittle Raid" in 1942, in which B-25 bombers were launched from an aircraft carrier to bomb Japan and then crash-landed in China.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: A U.S. Army general who held the position of supreme Allied commander in Europe, among many others. Eisenhower was perhaps best known for his work in planning Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Europe. After the war, he was a very popular figure in the United States and was elected to two terms as U.S. president, taking office in 1953.
• Hirohito: Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. Despite the power of Japan's military leaders, many scholars believe that Hirohito took an active role in leading the country and shaping its combat strategy during World War II. After Japan's defeat, he was allowed to continue to hold his position as emperor-largely as a figurehead-despite the fact that Japan was under U.S. occupation. Although many countries favored it, Hirohito was never tried for war crimes.
• Adolf Hitler: Chancellor and Führer, or "leader," of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. After a rapid political ascent as the leader of the far-right Nazi Party in the 1920s, Hitler achieved absolute power and maintained it throughout his time as chancellor. During his rule, he took a very active role in the government of Germany, making military decisions and implementing edicts regarding the treatment of Jews and other minorities, such as the notorious "final solution" that condemned Jews to death at concentration camps in German-controlled parts of Europe. Just before Germany surrendered in 1945, Hitler committed suicide together with his wife, Eva Braun, in his bunker in Berlin.
• Yamamoto Isoroku: The Japanese navy admiral who planned the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the attack on Midway in 1942.
• Curtis LeMan:: The commander of the U.S. Air Force's 21st Bomber Command in the Pacific theater during World War II. LeMay is best known for developing the U.S. strategy of using massive incendiary bomb attacks on Japanese cities in order to break the Japanese will near the end of the war.
• Benito Mussolini: Fascist prime minister who came to power in 1922 and ruled Italy as an absolute dictator. In many ways, Mussolini served as an inspiration to Adolf Hitler, with whom he chose to ally himself during World War II. In 1943, Mussolini was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by some of his subordinates.
• Friedrich Paulus: A field marshal in command of the German Sixth Army at the Battle of Stalingrad. Paulus surrendered what was left of the German forces in February 1943, despite Chancellor Adolf Hitler's express orders not to do so. While a prisoner of war in the USSR, Paulus publicly condemned Hitler's regime.
• Erwin Rommel: A field marshal in the German army's Afrika Korps who specialized in tank warfare. Rommel came to be known by both friends and enemies as the "Desert Fox" for his brilliant strategies and surprise attacks in Germany's North Africa campaign.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The 32nd U.S. president, who led the country through the bulk of World War II until his death from a cerebral hemorrhage in April 1945, just a few months before the war ended. Together with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, Roosevelt played a decisive role in holding together the Allied coalition that ultimately defeated Nazi Germany.
• Joseph Stalin: General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. In some ways, Stalin was responsible for the USSR's severe losses at the beginning of World War II, as he failed to head the warnings of his advisors and did not allow the Russian military to prepare a proper defense. At the same time, he did succeed in holding the country together and inspiring among his people an awesome resistance against Germany, which ultimately forced a German retreat. Stalin's own regime in the USSR was just as brutal as the Nazi regime in many ways, and the alliance between Stalin and the Western Allies always remained rather tenuous because of mutual distrust.
• Harry S Truman: The 33rd U.S. president, who succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945. Truman, who led the country through the last few months of World War II, is best known for making the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against Japan in August 1945. After the war, Truman was crucial in the implementation of the Marshall Plan, which greatly accelerated Western Europe's economic recovery.
• General Chiang Kai Shek: He led the KMT Chinese, and his army fought a desperate, generally losing battles against Japan and the Chinese Communists.

Heirs of Roman empire and christianity, descendants of Charlemagne aka Saxe/Coburg/Gotha/Windsor-Hohenzolern-Hanover-Orange/Nassau dynasty. As Prescott Bush nad prince Bernhardt.

Wider picture

Main force on the world affairs scene since 1600 was British East India Company,The

mother of modern corporatism, later transformed into "Club of Isles". Those forces of Holly Roman Empire medled on European soil since French revolution. See books: Builders of Empire:Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717-1927.Secret Service: British Agents in France, 1792-1815. Wall Street and Bolshevik revolution. Wall Street and rise of Hitler. The Forced War.

We known 'em today as "Central banking cartel" and their actions as globalization.

"The East India Company deserves to be looked at as what it was - a profit-making corporation that generated great wealth, but contributed to immense suffering. Just as corporations today should be judged by the impacts of their core business rather than their often peripheral donations to charitable causes, so the East India Company has to be assessed on the basis of its underlying activities rather than the occasional philanthropy of its executives.

The continuing reluctance in Britain to examine the full scope of the East India Company's impact is part of a more general amnesia about the historical role of business. It remains an oddity that although companies are among the most powerful institutions of the modern age, our histories still focus on the actions of states and individuals, politics and culture, rather than on corporations, their executives and the consequences of their activities. If we are to fully understand our corporate present, then we must understand our corporate past - and this means grappling with the legacy of John Company."

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/The-mother-of-modern-corporatism/

The Greatest Speech Ever Made http://youtu.be/WibmcsEGLKo

Another ineteresting point is that rullers of Britain, USA, Germany and Holland in time of WWs were cousins, descendandts of Charlemagne, heirs of Roman empire and christianity. They jointly own "Club of Isles." De facto banking cartel- Bank of England- Federal reserve-Bank for Interantional settlements- ECB also BP, Shell and other 10 trilion dollars stuff. Main reason for WW1 was to take control over Russia-and it's natural reserves- and Ottoman empire's territories.

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v04/v04p135_Weber.html

It was continuity of "Northern Crusades" known as colonialism/imperialism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Crusades

What is interesting is that a question about the key figures in WW2 ends up as a somewhat one sided view of my mother country i.e. Britain......

None of us would move on or talk to any other nation if we continually went back to the very distant past...the East India Company and such like have nothing to do with what happened in WW2. And if the last contributor is from the USA then with all due respect this contribution does not contribute to the question asked, and answered really well at the start of this. The only other key figures I can think of that has not been included is General De Gaulle of France, whom the Britsh helped and gave sanctuary to. and our famous General Montgomery.Oh and sorry folks I forgot to mention I had no idea that General Patten defeated so many people,..tongue in cheek, too many war films depicting Americans winning the war, where were they before Pearl Harbour ? Do not get me wrong i love the Americans and have spent many holidays there, but get real, us Brits soldiered on alone till Pearl Harbour.....

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May I add that while General Patten struggled to get up to speed in North Africa, Montgomery had defeated Rommel several time and would do so again in Italy and at D-Day. That it was Montgomery's brilliant organisation that led to the American relief at the Battle of the Bulge and to his clumsy attempt to gain the credit he was due over the likes of Gerneral Mark Clark and the perfectly dreadful Patten the rascist and high born bigot. Now while we're at it we should point out that MacArthur's neglect in the Philipines should have seen him sacked and despatched at the first opportunity rather than allow him to persue his grandiose return, especially because he was perfectly aware that the process of by-passing was far less destructive. Though we must give MacArthur credit for recognising that the British plan of treating the defeated Germans with dignity, would also work in Japan after the defeat.

To be honest there where so many people who where involved in a world war that lasted 6 years. The list could be in the 100's. It was such a group effort it is hard to single out a small number, the list above are major players but there where others who had a part on the outcome. Chief of Staff George Marshall is one that isn't listed (i think) he had final say on appointmnets and operations of the American Military

Answer 3

the Maori Battalion from New Zealand. the Maori Battalion from New Zealand.
FDR, Churchill, Stalin, Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini, Eisenhower, MacArthur, Wainright, Nimitz, Halsey, Patton, Bradley, MacAuliffe, Ridgway, Montgomery, Homma, Yamamoto, Hirohito, Doolittle, Rommel, Guderian, Goebbels, Eichmann, Yamashita, Goering, Demming, Higgins, Baum, Abrams, Taylor, Block, Sousley, Hayes, Strank, Gagnon, James Bradley, Rosenberg, Audie Murphy, Tito, Zuchkov, Chennault, Hodges, US Army, US Navy, Us Marines, US Army Air Force, Us Coast Guard - to mention a few.

Answer 4

There were two different powers during World War II. Those powers were the Allies and the Axis. The Allies consisted of leaders like Joseph Stalin, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. The Axis contained some notorious people like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Answer 5

Some historical figures who played a important role in World War 2