Allied Leaders
Franklin Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States and is the only president to be elected to more then 2 terms in office. FDR led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II. He was president through all but four month of World War II. His legislative program, The New Deal, greatly increased the role of the Federal government in American lives. With Roosevelt as leader the United States rebounded from the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor and had almost won in both the Pacific and in Europe before Roosevelt suddenly died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Without Roosevelt as president the war could have gone a completely different direction and Americans could be speaking German.
Joseph Stalin served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. In the beginning Stalins role in the committee was very limited but he gradually gained power and leadership. The Soviet Union played a large role in stopping Germany. Several years into World War II, Russian dictator Josef Stalin demanded the immediate assistance of the Allied nations, believing that the Soviets were getting the blunt end of the war. Stalin realized that with help Germany would win. Both America and Britain both agreed to limited help agreeing that Germany was a far worse threat then Communist Russia. In return Stalin pledged that he would aid in the war on Japan once Germany had been defeated.
Winston Churchill served as the prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. He led Britain's fight against Nazi Germany in World War II. Churchill was a talented orator, giving many stirring speeches to boost national morale during the war. A close friend of American presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, Churchill hoped to join the Americans in building a postwar order that would help stop the Soviets from dominating Europe In January 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca, Morocco to plan attacks on all war fronts, to invade Sicily and Italy, to send forces to the Pacific, and to better aid the Soviet Union