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  Marshall Phillippe Petain A highly decorated WWI hero, Petain surrendered France to Hitler and then was installed as the head of a pro-Hitler, collaborationist government called the Vichy. Petain believed France's military lost because of moral weakness and laziness. He agreed to work with Hitler to re-establish nationalistic values of "work, family, and country" in France and to help Hitler establish a "new European order." Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR served four terms as the U.S. 32nd president, during the Great Depression and WWII. An optimist and activist, FDR inspired the country with his broadcast "fireside chats." He created the New Deal, social reform legislation that established social security and public works projects that helped put Americans back to work. During WWII, he argued against isolationism and maintained a necessary but uneasy alliance between the U.S. and Britain with communist Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin The communist leader of the Soviet Union. Harry Truman FDR's vice-president who had to take over the presidency when FDR died of a stroke on April 12, 1945, before the final victories of WWII. As such, Truman was the one who had to order the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to avoid a land-invasion of Japan that could cost thousands of American lives.     Directory: UserFiles -> Servers Servers -> Class Schedule Credit Class Schedule Servers -> Note: Please look through resources very carefully. This is a controversial issue so some sources may have bias. Check carefully for the expertise or background of the writer or contributor Servers -> Ap united states history mr. Storrs – Room 306 2009-2010 text Servers -> Ww-p summer Reading List Grades 4-5 2014 Servers -> Delran township board of education school board agenda Servers -> Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley Schools Course Syllabus Servers -> Prescott and Russell jp st. Pierre Award Servers -> West Babylon Junior High School 200 Old Farmingdale Road Servers -> Ap computer Science A Download 0.5 Mb. Share with your friends:
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