Key Figures During World War II

Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin

at the Yalta Conference in 1945.

1.) Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30th November, 1874. He was the prime minister of Great Britain during most of the war, form 1940 to 1945. During the battle of Britain, Churchill's speeches boosted the British Morale.

2.) Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the United States of America (1933-1945). Unfortunately he did not live long enough to celebrate the Allies' victory in September of 1945. (Died in 1945, succeeded by Harry S. Truman).

3.) 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.

Key Events:

Allied Powers - Those countries joined together against the Axis Powers. They included the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. List of the countries involved in the Allied Powers.

Axis Powers Those countries joined to fight together against the Allies during World War II. They included Germany, Italy and Japan. List of the Axis nations.