U.S. bomber known as the Liberator. The B-24 had a slim wing design that allowed it to fly faster and higher and to carry a heavier bomb load than the better known B-17, or Flying Fortress. The B-24&# [..]

British Prime Minister (1937 to 1940). Feeling Germany had been unfairly penalized by the Versailles Treaty and wanting to maintain peace, Chamberlain was the leadership at the Munich Conference (Sept [..]

Great Britain's Prime Minister, Churchill was an eloquent speaker, who steeled the British to defy the Nazis, even as the Luftwaffe bombed London nightly. At the fall of France, which left the Br [..]

The French general who escaped to England after the fall of France and led the Free French forces during the Allied invasion of Europe. From England he broadcast on the BBC urging resistance. He would [..]

U.S. commander of the European Theater of Operations (ETO). After commanding U.S. forces in North Africa and directing the invasions of Sicily, he became the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expedition [..]

The fascist leader of Nazi Germany and the architect of the Holocaust which killed six million Jewish people.

A highly decorated WWI hero, Petain surrendered France to Hitler and then was installed as the head of a pro-Hitler, collaborationist government called the Vichy. Petain believed France's militar [..]

FDR served four terms as the U.S. 32nd president, during the Great Depression and WWII. An optimist and activist, FDR inspired the country with his broadcast "fireside chats." He created the [..]

The communist leader of the Soviet Union.

FDR's vice-president who had to take over the presidency when FDR died of a stroke on April 12, 1945, before the final victories of WWII. As such, Truman was the one who had to order the dropping [..]