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Allied Leaders of WWII – Foldable –
Step 1: Title – Allied leaders of WWII (small one inch fold)
Step 2: On the other 6 flaps include the following leaders:
Neville Chamberlain & Winston Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt & Harry Truman
Charles de Gaulle
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Joseph Stalin
Step 3: On the inside of each flaps write about each leader. Make sure you
include the following information about each:
What title did they have? (President, Emperor, General)
What country did they identify with?
What kind of leaders were they? Give details (Ruthless, Kind, Strong)
What were their goals when dealing with WWII? And were they able to
achieve them.
What were a few of their accomplishments
Neville Chamberlain
 Prime Minister of Britain in 1937-1939
 Believed in Appeasement – give in
 Did not want to cause another war and felt that Germany
had fair grievance against the Treaty of Versailles
 Met with Hitler at the Munich Conference in Germany and
signed the Munich Agreement
 Germany promised to only take part of Czechoslovakia =
Sudetenland but took more
 Most people of England agreed with him. Until…..
 1939 Hitler takes Poland.
 Great Britain declares war but too late
 Chamberlin in not reelected
Winston Churchill
 Prime Minister of Britain 1940
 Took an aggressive stand against Hitler
 Did not agree with appeasement and had warned
against it early on.
 Did not break even though Britain was fighting
Germany alone at the start of WWII.
 Very involved in military
 Used the Royal Air force, Commando units, & radar to fight the
Nazis
 Able to keep Germany out even after a year of bombing
 Worked to gain other allies like the U.S.
Charles de Gualle
 In the 1930’s he warned France against Germany but
no one listened
 He was named Brigadier General
 After the loss at the battle of Dunkirk. Germany
captures France and created Vichy France in 1940
 Does not accept the defeat and flees to London
 In exile he leads the French Free State in WWII
 Allied with the Great Britain
 Elected President of France in 1945
Stalin
0 Named General Secretary of the Communist Soviet Union
0 Takes control in 1926
0 Creates 5 year plan end the NEP and begins collectivization
program
0 Wants to increase the USSR’s industrial output and make it a
world power
0 Shocks the world by signing a non-aggression pact with
Hitler
0 promises not to attack each other and USSR gets ½ of Poland,
Latvia and Estonia
0 But Hitler breaks the pact in 1941 and invades Russia
0 Stalin is all alone and must join the allies for support
0 Allies have common goal – HATE HITLER!
Franklin Roosevelt
0 Elected President of the United States in 1932
0 Focusing on getting the US out of the Great Depression with
the New Deal
0 Following a policy of isolationism
0 Friends with Churchill and agrees to the Lend Lease Act –
not in the war but will sell things to Britain
0 Signs the Atlantic Charter with Churchill too deciding what
will happen to the World after WWII
0 Things change in 1941 – Japan attacks Pearl
Harbor
0 Dec. 7th 1941 “A day that will live in infamy”
0 Declares War on Germany Dec 8th 1941
Harry Truman
 Vice President under FDR
 Becomes President in 1945 when FDR dies
 The War is over in Europe but not in the
Pacific
 Learns of a new weapon
 Must decide to if he will drop the atomic bomb on
Japan
 Drops the Atomic on August 8th & 9th 1945
 WWII ends 2 days later
Dwight Eisenhower
 “I like Ike”
 During WWII assigned to the Army’s War Plan
division
 General led the campaign in Africa, & the
invasion of Italy
 Commander of the European campaign
including the storming of Normandy or D-day
 Major turning point of the war able to free France
 U.S. War hero
Douglas MacArthur
 U.S. General in the Pacific campaign
against Japan
 Uses an Island Hoping Strategy
 Takes less occupied/defended islands first
working way toward Japan