World War 2

What were the two sides in World War Two?
The war was fought chiefly between two major alliances: the Axis and the Allies.
The Axis * German * Italy * JapanSlovakia (Nov. 1940) 
Hungary (Nov. 1940) 
Romania (Nov. 1940) 
Bulgaria (March 1941) | The Allies * Australia * Belgium * Brazil * Canada * China * Czechoslovakia * Denmark * Estonia * France * Greece * India* Latvia * Lithuania * Malta * The Netherlands * New Zealand * Norway * Poland * South Africa * United Kingdom * United States * USSR * Yugoslaviaand others. |
The Tripartite Pact of September 27, 1940, allied (brought together) Germany, Italy, and Japan.
The Allies included:
* Commonwealth countries such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada
* Countries in theBritish Empire such as India.
* The Allies
* Neville Chamberlain
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* Arthur Neville Chamberlain was born in Birmingham, England, on March 18, 1869.
* Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister of Great Britain in September 1939 at the start of World War II. In May 1940, after the disastrous Norwegian campaign, Chamberlain resigned and Winston Churchill became prime minister.
*Why did Chamberlain resign as prime minister?
* Members of the House of Commons saw him as an uninspiring war leader. He was blamed for loss of Norway to the Germans. Chamberlin realised that a National Government of all political parties was mandatory. In May 1940 members of the Labour Party and Liberal Party refused to serve in his proposed National Government. Chamberlain resigned realisngthat a National Government would not be possible as long as he was leader. He was replaced by Winston Churchill. 
* Winston Churchill
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* Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30th November, 1874.
* Prime Minister of Great Britain during most of the war, from 1940 to 1945, Churchill led Britain to victory.
* During the Battle of Britain, Churchill'sspeeches boosted the British morale during the darkest moments.
* Joseph Stalin
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* Stalin was very brutal Communist dictator of Russia (1928-1953). In the years before World War 2 Stalin murdered or imprisoned almost all of Russia's senior military officers, and millions of other Russian citizens, in a paranoid and unprecedented wave of political terror.
* F D Roosevelt
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*President of the United States of America (1933-1945). He declared war on Japan after the bombing at Pearl Harbor, but unfortunately he did not live long enough to celebrate the Allies' victory in September of 1945.
(Died in 1945, succeeded by Harry S. Truman)
* Harry Truman
* Became president of the United States in the final year of World War II. He played a major role in the war'soutcome by making the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan.
* Charles de Gaulle
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* A French general who led the French in their fight against Germany. After World War II, he became president of France.
* William King
* Prime minister of Canada joined World War 2 beside Great Britain when the war started.
* Robert Menzies
* Prime minister of Australia, joined WorldWar 2 beside Great Britain when the war started.
* Michael Savage
* Prime minister of New Zealand joined World War 2 beside Great Britain when the war started.
* The Axis Power
* Adolf Hitler
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* Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th 1889 in a small Austrian town called Braunau, near to the German border.
* Hitler served in the Bavarian army during World War I and roseto become the leader of Nazi Germany during World War II. Under his leadership, the Nazis sought to make Germany the most powerful empire in the world and exterminate all they viewed as inferior. In pursuit of this, he ordered the extermination of over 11 million people, the majority of them Jewish, but also including Roman Catholics, Roma (gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the...