3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 –1945) Born on January 30, 1882 at Hyde Park, New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was America’s thirty-second President. Roosevelt was elected President in November, 1932, and re-elected in 1936. As a response to WWII, Roosevelt “devoted much thought to the planning of a United Nations, in which, he hoped, international difficulties could be settled.” On April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

4. Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) Son of Randolph Churchill, a Conservative politician, Winston Leonard Spencer was born on November 30, 1874, in Woodstock, Great Britain. On May 10, 1940, Churchill was appointed Prime Minister by George VI. Churchill developed a strong relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and this led to the sharing and trading of war supplies. Retired from politics in 1955, and after several strokes, Churchill died on January 24, 1965.

5. "On this tenth day of June, 1940, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt (June 10, 1940) This quote is President Roosevelt’s response to the events in which Italy, led by the fascist Benito Mussolini, invaded her neighboring country, France, on June 10, 1940. Italy invades France Italy invades France

6. "They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt Roosevelt’s address to women, and the appreciation for their contributions to the success of the war. Women in the War Women in the War

7. "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan...As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense...With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounded determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God." President F.D. Roosevelt(December 8, 1941) "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan...As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense...With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounded determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God." President F.D. Roosevelt (December 8, 1941) Roosevelt addressing the nation on the surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor

8. Germany and Russia Germany and Russia “On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia” -President Franklin Roosevelt (April 29, 1942) The President’s remark to the war in Europe and the advances of the German forces against the forces of Russia.

9. Churchill’s War Policy Churchill’s War Policy "We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea and air--war with all our might and with all the strength God has given us--and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1940) Churchill address to the British nation, demonstrating his stand and his beliefs on the war.

10. Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini "One man and one man alone has ranged the Italian people in deadly struggle against the British Empire and has deprived Italy of the sympathy and intimacy of the United States of America...One man has arrayed the trustees and inheritors of ancient Rome upon the side of the ferocious pagan barbarians...There lies the tragedy of Italian history and there stands the criminal who has wrought the deed of folly and of shame." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1940) Churchill’s message, broadcast directly to the Italians, showing his concern about Benito Mussolini.

11. The British Empire and The French Republic “We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old– Prime Minister Winston Churchill (June 4, 1940) “We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.” – Prime Minister Winston Churchill (June 4, 1940) Speech post to the fall of France. Churchill evoked his support to the French forces. An attempt to protect their soil at all costs.

12. "To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. Now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!...Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1941) Winston Churchill was moved by the attack on Pearl Harbor, and informed Roosevelt that British colonies in Southeast Asia had been attacked also. The union of these two leaders led to the declaration of war against Japan, supported by Germany and Italy.

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