Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 

Haile Selassie I, born Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael, was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and emperor from 1930 to 1974.

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Emperor Hirohito

Emperor Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan

Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Akihito

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General Hideki Tojo

Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army,

Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 27th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, from October 17, 1941, to July 22, 1944

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler killed millions with his camps 

Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

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Benito Mussolini

Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943—constitutionally until 1925

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain

Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975.

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PCc, DL, FRS, RA was a British statesman, army officer, and writer. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was a Georgian-born Soviet revolutionary and political leader.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian-born Soviet revolutionary and political leader. Governing the Soviet Union as its dictator from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953

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Big Three  

the Big Three were Josef Stalin; U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

in Teheran, Iran, the first meeting of the 'Big Three.' From Left: Soviet Union leader Josef Stalin; U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

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Allies

The allies played a big role in the wars 

Axis

The Axis powers, also known as the Axis and the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis

The Axis powers, also known as the Axis and the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces

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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

Berlin-Tokyo-Rome Axis. In Berlin, Germany, officials from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan sign the ten-year Tripartite Pact 

Berlin-Tokyo-Rome Axis. In Berlin, Germany, officials from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan sign the ten-year Tripartite Pact (the Three-Power Agreement), a military alliance. The pact sealed cooperation among the three nations (Axis powers) in waging World War II.

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Atlantic Charter

The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued during World War II

The Atlantic Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued during World War II on 14 August 1941, which defined the Allied goals for the postwar world

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Weimer Republic

Weimar Republic is an unofficial, historical designation for the German state as it existed between 1919 and 1933

Weimar Republic is an unofficial, historical designation for the German state as it existed between 1919 and 1933. The name derives from the city of Weimar, where its constitutional assembly first took place.

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Appeasement

appeasement is he process of appeasing 

the action or process of appeasing.

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Munich Conference

The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia

The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.

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Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties

The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.

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Reparations

Reparations is an American website started by artist Natasha Marin

Reparations is an American website started by artist Natasha Marin to raise compensation for descendants of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

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League of Nations

The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 

The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.

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Nazi-Soviet Pact

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Nazi–Soviet Pact

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Nazi–Soviet Pact, the German–Soviet Non-aggression Pact or the Nazi German-Soviet Pact of Aggression, was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany

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Lend Lease Act

the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.

Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.

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Attack on Guernica

The attack  of Guernica was an aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica

The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. ... The bombing is the subject of a famous anti-war painting by Pablo Picasso, commissioned by the Spanish Republic.

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Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941

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Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major confrontation of World War II

The Battle of Stalingrad was a major confrontation of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.

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D-Day

The Normandy landings( d-day) were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. 

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Battle of the Bulge

The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign

The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II

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VE Day

Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day

Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.

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Bataan Death March

The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000

The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saysain Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles

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Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific 

The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea

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Battle of Iwo Jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island

The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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Battle of Okinawa

The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War 

The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Marine and Army forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.

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Hiroshima

 United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945

During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.

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Nagasaki

Nagasaki is a Japanese city on the northwest coast of the island of Kyushu

Nagasaki is a Japanese city on the northwest coast of the island of Kyushu. It’s set on a large natural harbor, with buildings on the terraces of surrounding hills. It is synonymous with a key moment during World War II, after suffering an Allied nuclear attack in August 1945.

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Kamikaze Pilots

the Kamikaze Pilots would dive bomb the boats if they ran out of ammo 

Kamikaze, officially Tokubetsu Kōgekitai, were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who initiated suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the

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Island Hopping

Island Hopping is when the people from different islands go from one island to the next . 

travel from one island to another, especially as a tourist in an area of small islands.

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Blitzkrieg

Blitzkrieg happen  when the Japaneses  tried to invade china in the war . 

The Japanese turn back a Chinese counter-offensive; the Blitzkrieg Germany invasion of France; France falls; the British Army is evacuated from Dunkirk.

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Yalta Conference

the Yalta Conference was code named the Argonaut Conference

The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea conference and code named the Argonaut Conference, held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United

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Potsdam Conference

the Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof

The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945

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Cold War

the Germans were in the cold war 

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc.

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NATO

NATO stands for The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949

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Warsaw Pact

The Warsaw pact is a treaty of friendship