Haile Selassie

 Haile Selassie was Ethiopia's resident and Emperor.

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

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 formed the Nazi troops.

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 a journalist and leader of the National Fascist Party.

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini 29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) 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, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship.

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator.

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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Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, 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 governed the Soviet Union as its dictator.

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, he served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1953.

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"Big Three"

The Big Three were Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler.

the three largest American automakers (Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler).

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Allies

 Allies refers to the countries that fought against German, Italy and Japan in World War II.

are two or more individuals, organizations, or countries who are working together toward the same purpose as a result of a mutual agreement.

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Axis

After the defeat, Vichy France cooperated with the Axis powers until 1944.

 Germany, Italy, and Japan, which were allied before and during World War II.

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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis is

 the pact sealed cooperation among the three nations. 

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 on 14 August 1941.

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

Some people still can't see the pitfalls of appeasement.

Appeasement in an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.

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Munich Conference

The Soviets were not invited to the Munich Conference regarding 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 banned most aspects of aerial development in Germany.

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

For years, blacks have often joked bitterly about extracting reparations.

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

1924-League of Nations adopts Geneva Protocol for peaceful settlement of international disputes.

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 (nonaggression pact)

Nazi-Soviet Pact (nonaggression pact) was a neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

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 and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 by foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov, respectively.

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Lend Lease Act

Materiel support to Britain was provided while the U . S . was officially neutral via the Lend Lease Act starting in 1941.

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

 Attack on Guernica was an aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor is a Military Naval base that was bombed on December 7, 1941 by Japanese planes.

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

As at Stalingrad, Adolf Hitler forbids any retreat from Budapest.

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

As harry london had forecast, brookside's D-Day caught many meter-tampering offenders.

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 claimed more than 100, 000 German casualties.

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

The regiment ended the war on VE Day on German soil.

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

After surrendering, they were forced to endure the infamous Bataan Death March.

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 to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernano, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains.

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Battle of Midway

In 2000, the atoll was designated the Battle of Midway National Memorial.

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 officially over on March 26.

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

After the Battle of Okinawa, the United States military governed the prefecture.

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

Americans greeted the news of the bombing of Hiroshima with elation.

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 was hit by the second bomb on Aug . 9.

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. The event is memorialized at the city’s Atomic Bomb Museum and Peace Park.

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Kamikaze Pilots

Historians put the total number of Kamikaze Pilots near 4,000.

Island Hopping

Air force squadrons and Navy units contributed to the Allied Island Hopping campaign.

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

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Blitzkrieg

Americans developed doctrines of aerial warfare infinitely more novel than Blitzkrieg.

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

Cadogan then accompanied the British delegation to the Yalta Conference in 1945.

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 States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization.

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Potsdam Conference

The Potsdam Conference was held from 16 July to 2 August 1945.

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

Stalin had lowered the curtain and the Cold War had begun.

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

Instead, NATO shucked the problem off to the United Nations.

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 defense alliance was the Soviet Union's response to NATO.

The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

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