- Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the thirty-second President of the United States. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945, and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. A central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war, … - Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945-1953); as Vice President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In domestic affairs, Truman faced challenge after challenge: a tumultuous reconversion of the economy marked by severe shortages, numerous strikes, and the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act over his veto. After confounding all predictions to win re-election in 1948, … - Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 - April 28, 1945) was the prime minister and dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943, when he was overthrown. He established a fascist regime that valued socialism, nationalism, militarism and anti-communism combined with strict censorship and state propaganda. Mussolini became a close ally of German dictator Adolf Hitler, whom he influenced. Mussolini entered World War II in June 1940 on the side of Nazi Germany. - Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as "Général de Gaulle", was a French military leader and statesman. Prior to World War II, he was primarily known as an armoured warfare tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armoured and aviation forces. - Joseph Stalin
Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili ("Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili";, "Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili") (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 Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Despite his formal position being originally without significant influence, … - Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 - April 5, 1975) was the Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. He led the national government of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 to 1975. He commanded the Northern Expedition to unify China against the warlords and emerged victorious in 1928 as the overall leader of the Republic of China. Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, … - Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (The Nazi party). He was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and became FAhrer (leader) [2] in 1934, remaining in power until his suicide in 1945. - Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev ; surname more accurately romanized as Khrushchyov ; – September 11, 1971) was the chief director of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. He was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. He was removed from power by his party colleagues in 1964 and replaced by Leonid Brezhnev. - Paul-Henri Spaak
Paul-Henri Charles Spaak was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman. Born in Schaerbeek, Paul-Henri was the grandson of the Liberal politician Paul Janson and nephew of another Liberal politician, Paul-Émile Janson, who was briefly Prime Minister of Belgium from 1937 to 1938. His mother, Marie Janson, was the country's first female Senator. - İsmet İnönü
- Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (Ge'ez:, "Power of the Trinity," full title "His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings of Ethiopia and Elect of God" Ge'ez ["sic"] ') (born Lij Tafari Makonnen Ge'ez, Amharic pronunciation "lij teferī mekōnnin", July 23, 1892 - August 27, … - Kōki Hirota
was a Japanese diplomat, politician and the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan from March 9, 1936 to February 2, 1937. - Albert Lebrun
Albert Lebrun was a French politician, President of France from 1932 to 1940, and as such was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the center-right Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD). Born to a farming family in Mercy-le-Haut, he attended the "École Polytechnique" and the "École des Mines", graduating from both at the top of his class. He then became a mining engineer in Vesoul and Nancy, … - Subhas Chandra Bose
Subhash Chandra Bose, (Bangla: <big>নেতাজী সুভাষ চন্দ্র বসু</big> (सुभाष चदंर वसु) "Shubhash Chôndro Boshu") (January 23, 1897 - presumably August 18, 1945 [although this is disputed]<sup><small>note</small></sup>), also known as Netaji (lit. "Revered Leader"), was one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement against the British Raj. - Fulgencio Batista
General Ruben Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was the "de facto" military leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940, and thus the eminence grise of Cuban politics for that period of time, and the "de jure" President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 after having won election. He then became the country's leader after staging a coup, from 1952 to 1959. - Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 - 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain's legacy is marked by his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the concession of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler, marked by the Munich Agreement in 1938. In the same year he also gave up the Irish Free State Royal Navy ports. - Ivanoe Bonomi
Ivanoe Bonomi (October 18 1873 - April 20 1951) was an Italian politician and statesman before and after World War II. Bonomi was born in Mantua. He was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1909, representing Mantua as a member of the Italian Socialist Party. He was among those expelled from the party in 1912, for his advocacy of reformism and moderation. - Anthony Eden
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June 1897 - 14 January 1977) was a British politician who was Foreign Secretary for three periods between 1935 and 1955, including World War II and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957. He is mainly remembered for his role in the Suez Crisis of 1956, which was politically disastrous from a British perspective. He is generally ranked among the least successful British Prime Ministers of the 20th century. - Wang Jingwei
Wang Jingwei (May 4, 1883 - November 10, 1944) was a Chinese politician. He was a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang (KMT) and is most noted for disagreements with Chiang Kai-shek and forming a Japanese supported collaborationist government in Nanjing. He has often been labeled as a "Traitor to the Han Chinese". - Pope Pius Pius XII
Pope Pius XII (Latin: "Pius PP. XII"), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 - October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City, from March 2, 1939 until his death. Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio and cardinal secretary of state, … - Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tojo (Kyūjitai: 東條 英機; Shinjitai: 東条 英機; ' was a General in the Imperial Japanese Army and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during the time when Japan was Empire of Japan; he served as prime minister during much of World War II, from October 18 1941 to July 22 1944. He was sentenced to death for war crimes after the war and executed by hanging after a vote by judges of the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. - Mikhail Kalinin
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (June 3, 1946) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician - Trygve Lie
Trygve Halvdan Lie (July 16, 1896 - December 30, 1968) was a Norwegian politician. From 1946 to 1952 he was the first elected Secretary-General of the United Nations. Lie was born in Oslo (then Kristiania) on 16 July 1896. Lie's father, Martin, left the family to work as a carpenter in the United States and his mother, Hulda, ran a boarding house. - Josip Broz Tito
original name JOSIP BROZ, Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. He was secretary-general (later president) of the Communist Party (League of Communists) of Yugoslavia (1939-80), supreme commander of the Yugoslav Partisans (1941-45) and the Yugoslav People's Army (1945-80), and marshal (1943-80), premier (1945-53), and president (1953-80) of Yugoslavia. Tito was the chief architect of the "second Yugoslavia," a socialist federation that lasted from World War II until 1991. - Norodom Sihanouk
King-Father Norodom Sihanouk - Jan Stanisław Jankowski
Stanisław Jankowski (6 May 1882 - 13 March 1953; noms de guerre "Doktor", "Jan", "Klonowski", "Sobolewski", "Soból") was a Polish politician, an important figure in the Polish civil resistance during World War II and a Government Delegate at Home. Arrested by the NKVD, he was sentenced in the Trial of the Sixteen and murdered in a Soviet prison. Jankowski was born in the village of Krassów Wielki near Wysokie Mazowieckie, … - Francisco Franco
General Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892-20 November 1975), commonly abbreviated to Francisco Franco or Francisco Franco Bahamonde, and also known as "Caudillo" or "Generalísimo", was the leader and later formal head of state of Spain from October 1936, and of all of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. Franco led a successful military career and reached the rank of General. - Vilhelm Buhl
Vilhelm Buhl (October 16, 1881 - December 18, 1954) was Prime Minister of Denmark from 4 May 1942 to 9 November 1942 as head of the "Unity Government" (the Cabinet of Vilhelm Buhl I) during the German occupation of Denmark of World War II, until the Nazis ordered him removed. - Douglas Hyde
Douglas Hyde was an Anglo-Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945. He founded the Gaelic League, one of the most influential cultural organisations in Ireland. - Jan Smuts
Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, PC, ED, KC, FRS (May 24, 1870 - September 11, 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader, and philosopher. In addition to various cabinet appointments, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. He served as a British Field Marshal in both the First World War and the Second World War. - Getúlio Vargas
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was the president of Brazil from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to his suicide in 1954. - Milan Nedić
Milan Nedić Serbian Cyrillic Милан Недић (September 2, 1878 - February 4, 1946) was a Serbian soldier and politician who led a government in the German-occupied part of Serbia during World War II. This period is known as Nedić's Serbia in which he formed Government of National Salvation ("Влада Националног Спаса", tr."Vlada Nacionalnog Spasa"). Nedić was born in Grocka close to Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia. - George VI of the United Kingdom VI of the United Kingdom
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 - 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India (until 1947) and the last King of Ireland (until 1949). As the second son of King George V, he was not expected to inherit the throne and spent his early life in the shadow of his elder brother, Edward (known as David to his family and close friends). - Nobuyuki Abe
"'"', (24 November 1875-7 September 1953) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Governor-General of Korea, and 36th Prime Minister of Japan from 30 August 1939 to 16 January 1940. - Jan Masaryk
Jan Garrigue Masaryk (September 14, 1886 - March 10, 1948) was a Czechoslovak diplomat and politician. - Jozef Tiso
Monsignor Jozef Tiso was a fascist Slovak politician of the SPP, Roman Catholic priest who became a deputy of the Czechoslovak parliament, a member of the Czechoslovak government, and finally the President of Independent Slovak Republic from 1939-1945, allied with Nazi Germany. After the end of World War II, Tiso was hanged by Czechoslovak authorities. - Philipp Etter
Philipp Etter (December 21, 1891 - December 23, 1977) was a Swiss politician. He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on March 28, 1934 and handed over office on December 31, 1959. He was affiliated to the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland. During his office time he held the Department of Home Affairs and was President of the Confederation four times in 1939, 1942, 1947 and 1953. als:Philipp Etter - Eduard von Steiger
Eduard von Steiger was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1940–1951). He was elected to the Federal Council on December 10, 1940 and handed over office on December 31, 1951. He was affiliated to the Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents (BGB/PAI), now the Swiss People's Party. During his time in office he held the Department of Justice and Police and was President of the Confederation twice in 1945 and 1951. als:Eduard von Steiger - Per Albin Hansson
Per Albin Hansson, leader of the Swedish Social Democrats, was a Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946, including the coalition government which was formed during World War II, and included all major parties except the Communists. During the start of the war, fearing a German invasion, Per Albin gave in to Hitler’s demands of allowing German troop transports on Swedish railways to Norway, that had already been invaded and occupied by the Nazis, …
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