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World War II 1941-1945
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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
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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
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Benito Mussolini Founder of Fascist party in Italy Took power 1922 “Il Duce”
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Hirohito, Emperor of Japan
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Hideki Tojo General and military dictator Executed for war crimes, 1945
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Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Josef Stalin (1879-1953) General Secretary, Communist Party of the USSR
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Chiang Kai-shek Generalissimo, Republic of China Nationalist Party
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32 nd President of United States, 1933- 1945 Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin At Yalta in the Crimea, 1945
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Dwight Eisenhower aka “Ike” West Point, 1915 “Supreme Commander” Planned Operation Overlord (D-Day) Author of Crusade in Europe Commanded NATO
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Omar Bradley Chester Nimitz George Marshall Douglas MacArthur
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Andrew Jackson Higgins Higgins Industries, New Orleans, LA Landing Craft, Vehicle Personnel Omaha Beach, 6/6/1944
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Gen. George Patton
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BattleshipDestroyer Aircraft Carrier Landing Craft PT Boat
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B-17 Flying Fortress B-29 Superfortress G.I Infantryman with M-1 Rifle Sherman Tank P-51 Mustang
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