Political Leaders of the Allies
Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin was the communist dictator of Russia from 1928 to 1953. Stalin murdered or imprisoned all of his opponents when he came to power. At the beginning of World War II he made an agreement with Hitler to invade and split Poland in half, but at the end he stopped, with the help of the Russian winter, the German invasion on Russia and defeated Hitler’s forces in the Battle of Stalingrad. Image: http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ-RQ6QnyGQ2Q-BCN3UZ1_W8HmsX3LZHt_bGd wQUm3E7IrY5c4o0w:marxistleninist.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/stalin.png |
United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president of the United States from 1933 to 1945. He led America from isolationism to victory over Nazi Germany and its allies in World War II. He first confinced congress to aid the allies with selling weapons to Britain and France, and later to help with man power and to join the war on December 7, 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Image: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRarULVIu0i5m4ik2IaI5QK-bQTDj2qJNxvL373Ly98HfgSYqU5Jg:cdn.history.com/sites/2/2013/12/fdr-color-P.jpeg |
France
Charles de Gaulle Charles de Gaulle was a World War I veteran and the political and military leader of France during World War II. He unsuccessfully tried to warn his country of the threat of Germany and to modernize its armed forces in the years before the war. When Germany invaded France, de Gaulle fled from where he organized the Free French forces and rallied French colonies to the Allied cause. Image: http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTQ4eau0DLG5L30ndPPLOjoDukrlgv4ibTt03jkZC_ kAKv3SCGf:image1.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2009/304/2831_125706129294.jpg |
England
Winston Churchill Winston Churchill was a World War 1 veteran, who believed in the appeasement politic and used it on Germany prior World War 2. He was the British Prime minister during World War. He was one of the main leaders of the allies and helped defeating Nazi Germany. Image: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR2cwRJRWwbve0qLQiJvXZ0yy1LwsWe81L4HU-Vk7bJNq7rhhf3Zg:media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/35/7535-004-99D14F9B.jpg |
China
Chiang Kai-Shek Chiang Kai-Shek was the political leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975. He helped the allies to fight and eventually defeat Japan in the Pacific. Image: http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRgcwWLmSbTXOtzboUZxyExaX4Pz7RScR1a3YZY4pkJG274HN6O-w:www.nndb.com/people/974/000086716/cks-sm.jpg Last update |