Three of the central Allied leaders, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin (the "Big Three") at the Yalta Conference in February 1945.

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Belgium

• Leopold III of Belgium reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951. Prior to the war Leopold had made extensive preparations against such an invasion of his country. After Belgium’s surrender Leopold stayed to face the invaders, while his entire government had fleed to Great Britin. King Leopold rejected cooperation with the Nazis and refused to administer Belgium in accordance with their dictates Despite his defiance of the Germans, the Belgian government-in-exile in London refused to recognize his right to rule. The Germans held him under house arrest at the royal castle in Brussels untill the end of the war.

• Hubert Pierlot was the Prime Minister of Belgium from 1939 till 1945. Pierlot became the leader of the government during the Phony War until the German invasion. Pierlot fled to Britian where he led the government in exile and the formation of the Free Belgian Forces.

• Victor Strydonck de Burkel was a general of the Belgian Army who commanded the 1st Military Zone during the invasion of Belgium. After Belgium's surrender in 1940, he became the Commander of Belgian forces in Great Britain, and presided over the formation of the Free Belgian Forces. After the liberation of Belgium he became the Chief of the Belgian Military Mission to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.

• Auguste-Éduard Gilliaert was the commander of the Belgian Expeditionary Forces during the East African Campaign. The Belgian Expeditionary Forces was a unit composed of troops from Belgium and the Belgian Congo. In 1941, Gilliaert cut off the retreat of Italian General Pietro Gazzera in Ethiopia and accepted the surrender of Gazzera's 7,000 troops.

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Brazil

• Getúlio Vargas was the president of Brazil from 1930 till 1945. Vargas established the fascist Estado Novo. Yet despite its fascist nature, Vargas eventually sided with the Allies and declared war on Nazi Germany in 1942.

• Mascarenhas de Morais was the commander of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force. He arrived in Italy with the first Brazilian troops in 1944 and commanded the Brazilian forces until the surrender of the Axis forces in Italy. After the end of the war he was given the rank of Field Marshal.

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British Commonwealth

King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth with Eleanor Roosevelt in London

• King George VI was the reigning monarch of the British Commonwealth during the war. Despite only having the role of a figurehead, George VI was seen as a symbol of national unity during the war. Throughout the war, the King provided moral support throughout the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. He and his family would visit bomb sites and munitions factories. ^[1]

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Australia

• John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, 1941-45. In January 1942, facing Japanese attacks, he wrote in a historic New Year message that Australia looked to the US for its security, rather than the UK. Curtin also insisted that the army's I Corps return from North Africa to defend Australia. He ratified the Statute of Westminster and backdated it to 1939, emphasizing Australia's independence in foreign policy. Curtin also formed a close working relationship with General MacArthur and directed the Australian military to follow MacArthur's orders as if they were his own.
• Thomas Blamey was the commander in chief of the Australian military during the war. Commander of Allied land forces in the South West Pacific, 1942-45. He was Australia's first and only Field Marshal. In 1945 he signed the Japanese surrender document on behalf of Australia. .^[2]

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Canada

• William Lyon Mackenzie King was the Prime Minister of Canada during the war. He secured greater autonomy for the Commonwealth Realms, allowing them to enter the war of their own accord. Despite initially favouring appeasement of Hitler, he asked Parliament to declare war on Germany after the Invasion of Poland.

• Harry Crerar was a general and the de facto commander-in-chief of the Canadian military during the war. Crerar lead the Canadian military during the Invasion of Normandy. He has been described as an able administrator and politically astute. ^[3]

• Guy Simonds was an army officer who commanded the II Canadian Corps. He served as acting commander of the Cdn. 1st Army, leading the Allied forces to victory in the Battle of the Scheldt. After the war he was appointed Chief of the General Staff. He was the youngest officer in the Canadian army to be promoted to the rank of General.

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India

• Mahatma Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of the Indian National Congress. An opponent of Nazism and Fascism, prior to the war Gandhi sent an open letter to Hitler, touting tolerance. When the war broke out Gandhi had favored offering "non-violent moral support" to the British effort. Gandhi declared that India couldn't be party to a war ostensibly being fought for democratic freedom, while that freedom was denied in India herself. As the war progressed, Gandhi increased his demands for independence.

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New Zeland

• Michael Joseph Savage was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1935 till his death in 1940. An opponent of fascism and the appeasement. He decleared war on Nazi Germany in 1939 by declaring “Where Britain goes, we go! Where she stands, we stand”.

• Peter Fraser was was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1940 till 1949. He came into office after the death of Michael Joseph Savage. During the war, Fraser had a concern with ensuring that New Zealand retained control over its own forces. After serious losses in the Balkans Campaign in 1941, Fraser determined to retain a say as to where to deploy New Zealand troops. When Japan entered the war, Fraser choose to recall New Zealand's forces to the Pacific.

• Bernard Freyberg was commander of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force and the New Zealand 2nd Division. He led the Allied forces during the Battle of Crete. Freyberg command the New Zealand 2nd Division through the North African and Italian campaigns. He had an excellent reputation as a divisional-level tactician. After the war he served as the Governor-General of New Zealand.

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South Africa

• Jan Smuts was the Prime Minister of the South Africa from 1939 till 1948. He served in the Imperial War Cabinet as the most senior South African in favour of war and became South Africa’s first Field Marshal. After the war he represented South Africa at the drafting of the United Nations Charter.

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United Kingdom

• Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during most of the war, from 1940 to 1945. An early opponent of Hitler, he came into power after the Invasion of Poland. During the Battle of Britain, Churchill's speeches boosted the British morale during the darkest moments.
• Neville Chamberlain, who had formerly led a policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany, was Prime Minister during the first stages of the war, taking office in 1937 and resigning on 10 May, 1940 after the failed Norwegian campaign. Chamberlain then became Lord President of the Council. He died of cancer on 9 November, 1940, half a year after resigning.
• Clement Attlee succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister on 27 July, 1945, after the Allied victory in Europe, but before the surrender of Japan.
• Harold Alexander was a Field Marshal commanding the 15th Army Group and all Allied ground forces in Italy. In 1940 he was the last division commander to be evacuated from Dunkirk. Alexander received the surrender of German forces in Italy on April 29, 1945.
• Bernard Montgomery was a Field Marshal who led the Allied forces in North Africa. Under his command, the Allies were able to defeat the Afrika Korps. He later commanded the 21st Army Group and all Allied ground forces during Operation Overlord.
• Archibald Wavell when the war broke out, was in charge of the Middle East Command. The Italian forces in North Africa greatly outnumbered the Allies. Wavell, however, was able not only to repel Italian attacks, but to defeat them and occupy their colonies in Somaliland and Ethiopia. He also led a successful offensive against the Italians in Libya. Wavell was replaced by Claude Auchinleck in 1941. During early 1942, he led the short-lived American-British-Dutch-Australian Command in South East Asia and the Pacific, before resuming his previous position, as head of the India Command (later South East Asia Command).

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Republic of China

Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong toast to the Chinese victory over Japan.

• Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of the National Government of the Republic of China and the supreme commander of the China Theatre, which also included Burma. He was the chairman of the National Military Council, the highest political organ of the wartime Chinese government. He wished to defeat communism first before taking on Japan, but after the Xi'an Incident Chiang Kai-shek made a temporary truce with the communists to form a united front against Japan. After the war the truce ended and hostilities continued until his government retreated to Taiwan.

• Mao Zedong was leader of the Communist Party of China. He formed an alliance with the Nationalist Government after the Xi'an Incident. After the war, the truce ended and hostilities continued until the communists gained control of the mainland.

• Zhang Xueliang was warlord of Manchuria after the death of his father. Nicknamed the “Young Marshal”; he was a strong opponent of the Japanese occupation. He was responsible for the Xi'an incident which established a truce between the Nationalist and Communists.

• Claire Lee Chennault was the commander of the Flying Tigers. Orginally a military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek, Chennault was asked to establish an American squadrons to aid the Republic of China. Chennault spent the winter of 1940–1941 in Washington, helping to negotiate the establishhment of the American Volunteer Group. The AVG began their service with the Chinese Air Force in 1941 untill it was disbanded in 1942. ^[4]

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France (French Third Republic)

• Albert Lebrun was the last President of the Third Republic. In 1940, he was forced to accept the German terms of surrender of France and was replaced by Philippe Pétain as head the French state (see Vichy France). In 1944, Lebrun acknowledged de Gaulle's leadership of the restored French, provisional, government. In 1945, since he had not resigned from his presidential office, and that Pétain was not president, Lebrun thought he could be able to return to power after the liberation^[5].

• Édouard Daladier was Prime Minister from 1938 to 1940. He led his country during the opening stages of the war. Daladier resigned on 9 May, 1940, the day before the German invasion of France, because of his failure to aid Finland's defence in the Winter War.

• Paul Reynaud succeeded Daladier as Prime Minister in 1940 and led France during the Battle of France. After Germany had occupied large parts of France, Reynaud was advised by his newly appointed Minister of State Philippe Pétain to come to separate peace with Germany. Reynaud refused to do so, and resigned.

• Maurice Gamelin commanded the French military during the critical days of May 1940, before being removed from his position after failing to defend France from the Germans.

• Maxime Weygand replaced Gamelin as commander of the French army in May 1940. He eventually favoured an armistice with Germany.

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Free French Forces

• Charles de Gaulle was a Brigade General and political leader who led the Free French Forces from 1940 to 1944. After the fall of France, de Gaulle was one of the French military leaders who refused to accept the surrender and the government of Marshal Pétain, the latter became Chief of the short lived French State replacing the Republic. He gave his Appeal of 18 June via BBC to rally the French against the German occupation. In June 1944, de Gaulle formed the Provisional Government of the French Republic and acted as its chairman for the rest of the war.

Free French Generals Henri Giraud (left) and Charles de Gaulle sit down after shaking hands in presence of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill (Casablanca Conference, January 14, 1943).

• Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque was one of the central leaders of the Free French forces, and commanded forces both in Africa and in France. After the war ended in Europe, he commanded the French Far East Expeditionary Corps in the ongoing Pacific War. He signed the armistice with Japan on behalf of France on September 2, 1945.

• Henri Giraud was de Gaulle's rival and Western Allies favourite. He escaped from Germany where he was Prisoner of war and became second to de Gaulle in the Free French Forces head of staff after the Casablanca Conference of 1943.

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 Greece

• George II of Greece was king of Greece from 1922 to 1924 and from 1935 to till his death in 1947. King George had pro-British feelings at the start of World War II. When Italy invaded Greece, the King and the government fled the Greek mainland for Crete but after the Battle of Crete on the island he was evacuated to Egypt and exiled to Great Britain. During the war he remained the internationally recognized head of state, backed by the exiled government and Greek forces serving in the Middle East.

• Ioannis Metaxas was Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death in 1941. Despite his quasi-fascist tendencies and strong economic ties to Nazi Germany, he saw the expansionist goals of Mussolini as a threat to Greece. The policy of Metaxas to keep Greece out of WWII was decisively broken by the demands of Mussolini by replying "No" (Oxi).

• Alexander Papagos was was a Greek General who led the Greek Army in the Greco-Italian War and the Balkans Campaign of WWII. Prior to the war he actively tried to reorganize and reequip the Army. When war was decleared he was named Commander-in-Chief and lead Greek forces against Italy along the Albanian border. When Greek government to flee to Crete, Papagos remained behind and with other generals, was arrested and sent to concentration camps in Germany. In 1945 he was repatriated, rejoined the Army.

Image File history File links Flag_of_Greece_(1828-1978). ... George II (Greek: Γεώργιος [Geōrgios]; 20 July 1890 — 1 April 1947), King of the Hellenes (Greece) ruled from 1922-1924 and 1935-1947. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Combatants Italy Greece Commanders Sebastiano Visconti Prasca Ubaldo Soddu Ugo Cavallero Giovanni Messe Alexander Papagos Strength 529,000 men Under 300,000 men Casualties 13,755 dead, 50,874 wounded, 25,067 missing, 12,368 incapacitated by frostbites, ca. ... Crete (Greek Κρήτη — classical transliteration KrÄ“tÄ“, modern Greek transliteration Kríti; Ottoman Turkish گريد (Girit); Classical Latin CrÄ“ta, Vulgar Latin Candia) is the largest of the Greek islands at 8,336 km² (3,219 square miles) and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean. ... Combatants Greece United Kingdom New Zealand Australia Germany Italy Commanders Bernard Freyberg Kurt Student Strength United Kingdom: 15,000 Greece: 11,000 Australia: 7,100 New Zealand: 6,700 Total: 40,000 (10,000 without fighting capability. ... Ioannis Metaxas (Greek Ιωάννης Μεταξάς, April 12, 1871 – January 29, 1941) was a Greek General and the Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death in 1941. ... Note on Greek names: There is no firm convention for the rendering of Greek personal names into English. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Benito Mussolini created a fascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. ... Alexander Papagos (in Greek:Αλέξανδρος Παπάγος, Alexandros Papagos). ... Combatants Italy Greece Commanders Sebastiano Visconti Prasca Ubaldo Soddu Ugo Cavallero Giovanni Messe Alexander Papagos Strength 529,000 men Under 300,000 men Casualties 13,755 dead, 50,874 wounded, 25,067 missing, 12,368 incapacitated by frostbites, ca. ... Combatants Germany Italy Bulgaria Albania Greece United Kingdom Australia New Zealand Yugoslavia Commanders Maximilian von Weichs Giovanni Messe Alexander Papagos Henry Maitland Wilson The Balkans Campaign was the Italian and German invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia during World War II. It began with Italys annexation of Albania in April... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ...

Mexico

• Manuel Ávila Camacho was president of Mexico from 1940 till 1946. Ávila declared war against the Axis powers in 1942 after two of Mexico's ships were destroyed by German submarines. Ávila Camacho cooperated in the war effort, providing United States with 300,000 workers under the Bracero Program.

Image File history File links Flag_of_Mexico. ... Term of office: 1 December 1940 – 1 December 1946 Preceded by: Lázaro Cárdenas del Río Succeeded by: Miguel Alemán Valdés Date of birth: 24 April 1897 Place of birth: Teziutlán, Puebla Date of death: 13 October 1955 Place of death: México State Profession... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The word axis has several meanings: In mathematics, axis can mean: A straight line around which a geometric figure can be rotated. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bracero Program, (after the Spanish word for unskilled laborer), was a temporary contract labor program initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico. ...

Panama

• Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango was president of Panama from 1941 till 1945. Because of strong poltical connections with the United States, Arango declared war on the Axis powers hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Poland

Władysław Sikorski

• Władysław Sikorski was Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile and Commander of the Polish Armed Forces. A staunch advocate of the Polish cause on the diplomatic scene, he supported the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Poland and the Soviet Union, which had been severed after the Soviet alliance with Germany. In July 1943, Sikorski was killed when his plane crashed into the sea 16 seconds after takeoff from Gibraltar.
• Edward Rydz-Śmigły was Marshal of Poland and commander of the Polish armed forces during the invasion of Poland. After the invasion; Śmigły-Rydz took complete responsibility for Poland's military defeat. He later resigned and joined the resistance movement as a common underground soldier.

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Soviet Union

Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and General Secretary Joseph Stalin.

• Joseph Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during WWII. It was during Stalin’s reign that the USSR emerged as a superpower that rivaled the United States. After the war Stalin put communist leaders in power in Eastern Europe triggering the Cold War.
• Vyacheslav Molotov was Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union from 1939-1949. He was responsible for the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which governed Soviet-German relations until June 1941 when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union. Molotov conducted urgent negotiations with Britain and, later, the United States for wartime alliances. He secured Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill's agreement to create a "second front" in Europe.
• Georgy Zhukov was a Soviet Field Marshal who led the Red Army to liberate the Soviet Union from Nazi occupation. He would lead the Soviets to overrun much of Eastern Europe, and to the capture of Berlin. After the war Zhukov was the supreme Military Commander of the Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany.
• Mikhail Kalinin was Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR during the war, and thus held one of the highest political offices in the Soviet Union.
• Vasily Chuikov commanded the 64th Army and later the 62nd Army, which defended Stalingrad during the crucial Battle of Stalingrad.
• Leonid Govorov became Soviet commander in Leningrad in 1942, and commanded Leningrad's forces in Operation Spark. In 1944, he was promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union.

Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Stalin-Molotov. ... Image File history File links Stalin-Molotov. ... For other uses, see Molotov (disambiguation). ... Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Georgian: , Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili; Russian: , Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) (December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1878[1] – March 5, 1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Unions Central Committee from... Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Georgian: , Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili; Russian: , Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) (December 18 [O.S. December 6] 1878[1] – March 5, 1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Unions Central Committee from... Joseph Stalin, first General Secretary The General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (First Secretary in 1953-1966) was the title synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenins death in 1924. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Molotov (disambiguation). ... Molotov signs the German-Soviet non-aggression pact. ... FDR redirects here. ... “Churchill” redirects here. ... Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, GCB (Russian: ) (December 1, 1896 [O.S. November 19]–June 18, 1974), was a Soviet military commander who, in the course of World War II, led the Red Army to liberate the Soviet Union from the Nazi occupation, to overrun... For other organizations known as the Red Army, see Red Army (disambiguation). ... Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium orange),members of the Warsaw pact (light orange), and other former Communist regimes not aligned with Moscow (lightest orange). ... Mikhail Kalinin A 1919 image showing Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, and Mikhail Kalinin (right) Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (Russian: ) (November 19 [O.S. November 7] 1875 – June 3, 1946) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician. ... // This position was held by four people at once. ... Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (Васи́лий Ива́нович Чуйко́в) (February 12, 1900 - March 18, 1982) was a lieutenant general in the Soviet Red Army during World War II, two times Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, 1945), who after the war became a Marshal of the Soviet Union. ... Stalingrad is the former name of two cities: Volgograd, Russia Karviná-Nové Město, near Ostrava, Czech Republic Other uses: The Battle of Stalingrad (a major turning-point of World War II and arguably the bloodiest battle in human history) Stalingrad (German film set during the above battle) Stalingrad... Combatants Germany Romania Italy Hungary Croatia Soviet Union Commanders Adolf Hitler Friedrich Paulus # Erich von Manstein Hermann Hoth Petre Dumitrescu Constantin Constantinescu Italo Garibaldi Gusztav Jany Vasiliy Chuikov Aleksandr Vasilyevskiy Georgiy Zhukov Semyon Timoshenko Konstantin Rokossovskiy Rodion Malinovskiy Andrei Yeremenko Strength Army Group B: German Sixth Army # German Fourth Panzer... Marshal of the Soviet Union Leonid Govorov Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov (Russian Леонид Александрович Говоров) (February 22, 1897 - March 19, 1955), Soviet military commander, was born in the... Leningrad (Russian: Ленинград) may mean: St. ... Operation Spark (1943) (Russian: Операция Искра, operatsia iskra) was a military operation by the Red Army during January 12 —January 18, 1943 which intended to create a land connection to break the siege of Leningrad conducted by the German Wehrmacht. ... The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union (Russian: Marshal Sovietskogo Soyuza [Маршал Советского Союза]) was in practice the highest military rank of the Soviet Union. ...

Saudi Arabia

Ibn Saud converses with President Franklin Roosevelt (right) onboard the USS Quincy

• Ibn Saud was the king of Saudi Arabia from 1932 till 1953. Ibn Saud positioned Saudi Arabia as neutral during the war utill 1945.However he was generally in favor of the Allies. He supplied the Aillied forces with oil. ^[6]

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United States

• Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. Roosevelt had come into power during the Great Depression on a promise to heal the country. Prior to the Bombing of Pearl Harbor; he attempted to aid the Allies without declaring war. He died in office two weeks before the surrender of Germany.

• Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States from 1945 until 1953. Truman took office after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was Truman who ordered the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war he oversaw the post war recovery.

• George Marshall was General of the Army and the Chief of Staff during the war. As Chief of Staff , Marshall oversaw the largest military expansion in American history. Marshall coordinated Allied operations in Europe and the Pacific. After the war Marshall became Secretary of State and led the post-war reconstruction effort in Europe, which became known as the Marshall Plan. For his role in the recovery he received the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Fiorello H. LaGuardia was the mayor of New York City from 1935 till 1945. LaGuardia was outspoken opponent of Nazi Germany and Fascism. In 1941 he was appointed as the director of the Office of Civilian Defense (OCD). He was responsible for preparing the protection of the civilian population in case America was attacked. LaGuardia had remained Mayor of New York during this appointment. After the war he he became the director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

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European Front

• Dwight D. Eisenhower nicknamed "Ike," was the Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the liberation of France and Europe with the invasion of Nazi Germany. Following the German unconditional surrender , Eisenhower was appointed Military Governor of the U.S. Occupation Zone. After the war he was elected as president of the United States.

• Omar Bradley was General of the Army in North Africa and Europe during World War II. He led the First United States Army during Operation Overlord and the invasion of Europe. He was informally known as "the soldier's general."

• George S. Patton was a leading general in World War II during the campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France and Germany. He commanded the Third United States Army in North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations.

Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American General and politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). ... Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (abbreviated as SHAEF), was the command headquarters of the commander of Allied forces in North West Europe in 1944 and 1945. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Unconditional surrender refers to a surrender without conditions, except for those provided by international law. ... The C-Pennant Occupation zones in Germany (1945) Capital Berlin (de jure) Political structure Military occupation Governors (1945)  - UK zone F.M. Montgomery  - French zone Gen. ... For other uses, see President of the United States (disambiguation). ... Omar Nelson Bradley (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was one of the main U.S. Army field commanders in North Africa and Europe during World War II and a General of the Army of the United States Army. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The First United States Army is a field army of the United States Army. ... The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between the German forces occupying Western Europe and the invading Allies. ... George Smith Patton Jr. ... Distinctive Unit Insignia // The Third United States Army was first activated as a formation during the First World War on November 7, 1918, at Chaumont, France, when the General Headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces issued General Order 198 organizing the Third Army and announcing its headquarters staff. ... The European Theater of Operations, or ETO, was the term used by the United States in World War II to refer to most United States military activity in Europe north of the Mediterranean coast. ...

Pacific Front

• Douglas MacArthur was Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the South West Pacific Area, 1942-45. He was commander of US and Filipino forces in the Philippines, before relocating to Australia. He accepted the surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945 and then became Supreme Commander Allied Powers.

• Chester W. Nimitz was Admiral of the United States Pacific Fleet in 1941-42 and became supreme commander of Allied forces in the Pacific Ocean Area, 1942-45.

• William D. Leahy, former US ambassador in Vichy France, was effectively chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1942 to 1949. In 1944, he became the first US Fleet Admiral. He also appeared at the Yalta Conference. Leahy criticized the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

• Ernest King was Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet (1941-45) as well as Chief of Naval Operations (1942-45) and Fleet Admiral (from 1944).

• William Halsey, Jr. commanded the Third Fleet, formed in 1943, and appeared in the Guadalcanal campaign and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

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Philippines

• Vicente Lim commanded the Philippine Army during the early days of the war. Lim was given the rank of Brigadier General and became the top ranking Filipino under General MacArthur. He was placed in command of the 41st Philippine Division, tasked with the defense of Bataan. After the fall of the Philippines, he lead restiance aginst Japanese ocupation.

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Puerto Rico

• Agustin Ramos Calero was an army sargent in the Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry Regiment. During the war he engaged in combat against a squad of German soldiers in during the Battle of Colmar Pocket. Calero attacked the squad, killing ten of them and capturing 21 shortly before being wounded himself. Following these events, he was nicknamed "One-Man Army" by his comrades.

• Mihiel Gilormini was a Brigadier General in the Air Force. Prior to the Attack on Peral Harbor, Gilormini served in the Royal Air Force from 1941 till 1942. He joined the United States Army Air Force with the rank of second lieutenant. In October 1942, he was assigned to the 346th Fighter Squadron. After the war he continued to serve in the Army Air Force. In 1947, he was reassigned to the newly formed United States Air Force and named base commander to the 198th Tactical Fighter Squadron in Puerto Rico.

Image File history File links Flag_of_Puerto_Rico. ... Sergeant First Class Agustin Ramos Calero (June 2, 1919-February 10, 1989), born in Isabela, Puerto Rico, was the second most decorated soldier (the most decorated U.S. soldier was Audie Murphy) in the United States military during World War II.[1] // Calero was born and raised in the town... Brigadier-General Mihiel Mike Gilormini (August 3, 1918 – January 29, 1988) born in Yauco, Puerto Rico, was a United States Air Force officer who served in the Royal Air Force and in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. He was the recipient of the Silver Star...

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

• Peter II was the last king of Yugoslavia reigin from 1934 till 1945. An opponent of Nazi Germany, he participated in a British-supported coup d'état opposing the pro-faccist Prince Paul. Peter was forced to leave the country following the Axis invasion. After the war he was deposed by the communist goverment.

• Josip Broz Tito was the leader of the Yugoslav Partisans engaged in the fight against the Axis forces in the Balkans. After Germany attacked the Soviet, Tito called a Central committee meeting which named him Military Commander and issued a call to arms. After the war he established the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ^[7]

• Draža Mihailović lead the resistance movement Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland. Following the Yugoslav defeat, Mihailović led a small group of officers and soldiers who refused to surrender, and retreated in hope of finding units still fighting. After the war, he was tried by the Communist Partisans. ^[8]

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Notes

1. ^ The History of the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth Secretariat. Retrieved on 2007-02-26.
2. ^ John Curtin. National Archives of Australia. Retrieved on 2007-04-21.
3. ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-154332082.html
4. ^ Caidin, ibid., dates the departure of the first AVG pilots 10 Dec 1941.
5. ^ Albert Lebrun's biography on the French Presidency official website
6. ^ A Country Study: Saudi Arabia. Library of Congress Call Number DS204 .S3115 1993. Chapter 5. World War II and Its Aftermath
7. ^ Ian Bremmer, The J Curve: A New Way To Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall, Page 175
8. ^ http://www.serb.org/serbia/memoriam-draza-mihailovich.php

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See Also

• Allies of World War II
• Axis Leaders of World War II
• Commanders of World War II