World War II
TOTALITARIANISM: 20TH CENTURY-STYLE CommunismFascism Atheist MarxismAtheist Nietzscheism, Social Darwinism Proletarian InternationalismNationalism/Imperialism Class StruggleFolk/Race Struggle Equalityof ProletariatEconomic Inequality Hatred of the RichHatred of Jews and other “races” SocialismCapitalism (regulated, directed)DictatorshipNo individual freedom anti-democracy, anti-fascismanti-democracy, anti-communism gov’t. control of everythinggov’t control of everythingrevolutionMachiavellianism “Workers of the world, unite!”“One people, one state, one leader” Lenin/Stalin/MaoHitler/Mussolini
Adolf Hitler Born 1889 in Braunau, Austria Failed artist WW I veteran Wrote Mein Kampf in prison National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZI) “Fuhrer” Died in 1945, suicide
Benito Mussolini Founder of Fascist party in Italy Took power 1922 “Il Duce”
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
Hideki Tojo General and military dictator Executed for war crimes, 1945
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain
Josef Stalin ( ) General Secretary, Communist Party of the USSR
Chiang Kai-shek Generalissimo, Republic of China Nationalist Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32 nd President of United States, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin At Yalta in the Crimea, 1945
Dwight Eisenhower aka “Ike” West Point, 1915 “Supreme Commander” Planned Operation Overlord (D-Day) Author of Crusade in Europe Commanded NATO
Omar Bradley Chester Nimitz George Marshall Douglas MacArthur
Andrew Jackson Higgins Higgins Industries, New Orleans, LA Landing Craft, Vehicle Personnel Omaha Beach, 6/6/1944
Gen. George Patton
BattleshipDestroyer Aircraft Carrier Landing Craft PT Boat
B-17 Flying Fortress B-29 Superfortress G.I Infantryman with M-1 Rifle Sherman Tank P-51 Mustang