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World War II
1941-1945
TOTALITARIANISM: 20TH CENTURY-STYLE
Communism
Fascism
Atheist Marxism
Atheist Nietzscheism, Social Darwinism
Proletarian Internationalism
Nationalism/Imperialism
Class Struggle
Folk/Race Struggle
Equality
Economic Inequality
of Proletariat
Hatred of the Rich
Hatred of Jews and other “races”
Socialism
Capitalism (regulated, directed)
Dictatorship
Dictatorship
No individual freedom
No individual freedom
anti-democracy, anti-fascism
anti-democracy, anti-communism
gov’t. control of everything
gov’t control of everything
revolution
revolution
Machiavellianism
Machiavellianism
“Workers of the world, unite!”
“One people, one state, one leader”
Lenin/Stalin/Mao
Hitler/Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
•Born 1889 in
Braunau, Austria
•Failed artist
•WW I veteran
•Wrote Mein Kampf
in prison
•National Socialist
German Workers
Party (NAZI)
•“Fuhrer”
•Died in 1945,
suicide
Benito Mussolini
•Founder of Fascist
party in Italy
•Took power 1922
•“Il Duce”
Hirohito,
Emperor of Japan
Hideki Tojo
•General
and military
dictator
•Executed
for war
crimes, 1945
Winston Churchill,
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Josef Stalin
(1879-1953)
General Secretary,
Communist Party of
the USSR
Chiang Kai-shek
•Generalissimo,
Republic of
China
•Nationalist
Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
32nd
President of United States, 19331945
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin
At Yalta in the Crimea, 1945
Dwight Eisenhower
•aka “Ike”
•West Point, 1915
•“Supreme
Commander”
•Planned Operation
Overlord (D-Day)
•Author of Crusade in
Europe
•Commanded NATO
Omar Bradley
Chester Nimitz
George Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
Andrew
Jackson
Higgins
Higgins Industries, New Orleans, LA
Landing Craft, Vehicle Personnel
Omaha Beach, 6/6/1944
Gen. George
Patton
Battleship
Destroyer
Landing Craft
PT Boat
Aircraft Carrier
B-17 Flying Fortress
Sherman Tank
P-51
Mustang
G.I Infantryman with
M-1 Rifle
B-29 Superfortress