what are the names of the leaders in world war 2?
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Adolf Hitler - Nazi dictator of Germany (1933-45), planned and started World War 2, committed suicide at the end of the war. \nGeneral Hideki Tojo - Prime minister of Japan (October 1941 - July 1944). With a long militarist tradition, Japan became extremely militarist and aggressive in the 1930s and was practically governed by military leaders. Tojo, an aggressive army General, became minister of war in July 1941 and prime minister in October 1941. After a short attempt to improve relations with the US failed, he ordered to go to war and attack Pearl Harbor in December 1941. He gradually took more ministerial roles, and in Feb. 1944 also made himself the commander in chief, like Adolf Hitler did. When he realized that Japan was going to lose the war he resigned. The military continued to control Japan until the end of World War 2, which came when the Emperor Hirohito which was until then passive, ordered to surrender in order to prevent further inevitable destruction of Japan. After the war Tojo was executed for his responsibility to Japan's war crimes. \nBenito Mussolini, was the prime minister of Italy (1922-1943). A former journalist, he went to politics and formed the Fascist party, whose ideology, Fascism, called for a one-party state, total obedience, patriotic nationalism, and aggressive militarism. The ideology and its implementation in Mussolini's Italy influenced Adolf Hitler's own ideology, Nazism, which was a combination of Fascism with extreme racism. Initially Mussolini led a right-wing coalition, but later Italy became a one party state. His treatment of unemployment made Mussolini popular, but the military aggression of Fascism led to its failure. Mussolini was eager to demonstrate the "strength" of his regime by invading weaker neighbors. In 1935 he invaded and occupied the peaceful Ethiopia from Italy's nearby colony in East Africa. In 1936, the two Fascist dictators, Hitler and Mussolini, signed an alliance. In 1939 he invaded and occupied his small neighbor Albania, and Mussolini then enhanced his alliance with Hitler to a full military alliance. Mussolini knew that his military was not very effective, but when the Germans defeated the French and British forces in mid 1940 he thought it was safe enough for him to attack Britain and the collapsing France too and declared war, and in October 1940 he also invaded Greece, and was repelled. Mussolini had a million soldiers in Libya, and he sent them to attack the small British force in Egypt. The Italian Navy and Air Force attacked British ports and shipping in the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar in the West to Haifa (Israel) in the East. Despite its numerical strength and the fact that British forces in the Mediterranean were greatly outnumbered and very stretched, the Italian military could not defeat them anywhere, and was severely beaten by the British, and simply had to call for the help of the much more capable Germans. Even with German help, the British forces only lost their positions in Greece and kept fighting fiercely from their island bases in Malta, Gibraltar, and in North Africa. Mussolini's Italy became a German puppet, and even sent troops to participate in Germany's invasion of Russia. Eventually, British and American forces eliminated the Italian and German forces in North Africa and followed in July 1943 with an invasion of Sicily in South Italy. It was clear that Italy was losing the war, so several days after the invasion Mussolini was replaced and arrested in a remote mountain castle. Hitler sent commandos to rescue his friend from captivity. In April 1945, when German defence in North Italy collapsed, Mussolini was captured by Italian partisans and executed . \nThe defenders\nWinston Churchill kept warning of the Nazi danger in pre-war years. He was elected prime minister of Great Britain after the total collapse of the appeasement policy of his predecessor Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain failed to understa
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm\nhas all the info u need
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try here\n\nhttp://timelines.ws/20thcent/1942.HTML
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world war 1 : the assassination of Franz Ferdinand\nworld war 2 : i think it's that lots of countries didnt agree with the Nazis who were taking over Europe.. \n                     Hope this helps
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George Bush (USA), Tony Blair (UK), Stephen Harper (Canada), Kim Jong Il (North Korea), Jalal Talabani (Iraq), Hamid Karzai (Afghanistan), Goran Persson (Sweden), John Howard (Australia), Jacques Chirac (France), Vladimir Putin (Russia).\n\nCheck out this site http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/
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Al-Zarqawi, George Bush, Adolf Hitler and Bobby Goldsboro.\n\nPlease award Best Answer points to me right now because you and I both know there is no need to read any more answers after my incredibly intelligent answer for you.  I do not like to wait and I am not very patient.
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(m)\n\nThe Lead Up to World War 2\nChemical Cartels\nWithout a doubt, a key player in the cause of World War 2 was the powerful Adolf Hitler.  But the major source of Hitler's power came from a chemical cartel called I.G. Farben, (the name is an abbreviation of the complete name: Interssen Gemeinschaft Farben.) The importance of I.G. Farben's support for the Socialist movement was pointed out in a book about the cartel, in which it is stated: "without I.G.'s immense production facilities, its far reaching research, varied technical experience and overall concentration of economic power, Germany would not have been in a position to start its aggressive war in September, 1939."1\n\nBut I.G. Farben had a little-known source of its enormous economic power: Wall Street, U.S.A. "Without the capital supplied by Wall Street, there would have been no I.G. Farben in the first place, and almost certainly no Adolf Hitler and World War II."2\n\nI.G. Farben had its beginning in 1924 when American banker Charles Dawes arranged a series of foreign loans totalling $800 million to consolidate gigantic chemical and steel combinations into cartels, one of which was I.G. Farben. Professor Can-oil Quigley terms the Dawes Plan: "largely a J.P. Morgan production."3\n\nThree Wall Street houses, Dillon, Read & Co.; Harris, Forbes & Co.; and National City handled three-quarters of the loans used to create these cartels.\n\nThe importance of LG. Farben to the plans of the German Nazi Party can be illustrated by a product that an I.G. dominated company manufactured. It was called Zyklon B, the lethal gas utilized by the exterminators at Auschwitz, Bitterfeld, Walfen, Hoechst, Agfa, Ludwigshafen, and Buchenwald. (I.G. Farben, being a chemical company even before it was merged with other chemical companies to form the cartel, was also the producer of the chlorine gas used during World War I.) American support for I.G. Farben continued as Henry Ford merged his German assets with those of I.G. in 1928.4\n\nBut the real importance of I.G. to the war efforts of Adolf Hitler came in the utilization of the process known as hydrogenation, the production of gasoline from coal, created by the I.G. Farben chemical cartel. Germany had no native gasoline production capabilities, and this was one of the main reasons it lost World War I. A German scientist discovered the process of converting coal (Germany was the possessor of large quantities of coal) into gasoline in 1909, but the technology was not completely developed during the war. In August, 1927, Standard Oil agreed to embark on a cooperative program of research and development of the hydrogenation process to refine the oil necessary for Germany to prepare for World War II.\n\nAnd finally, on November 9, 1929, these two giant companies signed a cartel agreement that had two objectives:\n\nFirst, the cartel agreement granted Standard Oil one-half of all rights to the hydrogenation process in all countries of the world except Germany; and\n\nSecondly, the two agreed: "... never to compete with each other in the fields of chemistry and petroleum products. In the future, if Standard Oil wished to enter the broad field of industrial chemicals or drugs, it would do so only as a partner of Farben.\n\nFarben, in turn, agreed never to enter the field of petroleum except as a joint venture with Standard."5\n\nThis cartel agreement was extremely important to the war effort, because, by the end of the war, Germany was producing about seventy-five percent of its fuel synthetically.\n\nBut even more significant was the fact that these plants were not the subject of Allied bombing raids, so that, by the war's end, twenty-five to thirty of its refineries were still operating with only about fifteen percent damage.\n\nStandard Oil got into the refining business as well. In fact, William Dodd, the U.S. Ambassador in Germany, wrote the following in his diary about the pre-war
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For the war itself:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/world-war-ii\n\n\nFor timelines, see:\nhttp://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/timeline.htm\n\nhttp://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm\nThis one is very detailed:\nhttp://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/timelines-index.htm
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"Franklin Delano Roosevelt\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/fr32.html\nWinston Churchill\nhttp://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1\nJoseph Stalin\nhttp://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_stalin.html\nMeet the "Big Three". These were the heads of the main allied countries who participated in the Yalta Conference in February of 1945. Yalta is a city on the coast of the Black Sea which was then part of the USSR and is now part of Ukraine. Their mission was to discuss post-war arrangements for Europe. Some of the agreements made at the conference included plans for dividing Germany into four zones of occupation (American, British, French, and Soviet), plans for war crimes trials, and plans for war reparations. Read some of the original documents pertaining to the conference."
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Germany - Adolf hitler\nItaly- benito Mussolini\nJapan - Hideko Toji
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probably Hitler of Germany.....not a good person but still was a very powerful leader .....at the present time though its probably George Bush same as Hitler not a very good person but still very powrful.\nalso napolean was quite a strong leader.
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mussolini\nbruce willis\nhowie mandel yul brenner\nsean connery\ndon rickles\nmoby\nshaq oneal\nmichael jordan\nmr. clean\ntelly sevalis\nscatman crothers\njason alexander\njohn amos \ned asner\nrobert duvall\nron howard\ned harris\njohn lithgow\njohn malkovitch\nterry o'quinn\ndonald pleasaance\nrob reiner\npatrick stewart\nkareem abdul jabbar\nandre agassi\nstone cold steve austin\ngeorge foreman\nhulk hogan\njason kidd\nzinedine zildane\nallen ginsberg\nalfred hitchcock\notto preminger\njimmy buffett\nphil collins\npeter frampton\npeter gabriel\ndmx\nles paul\nseal\ndick cheney\nmichael chertoff\ndwight eisenhower\njohn glenn\nkhruschev\njesse ventura\nhomer simpson\nziggy\nand many more
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1. Germany\n2. Poland
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There's a pretty detailed list of events in the Pacific\ntheater for WW2 at reference #1.  However, it begins\nwith 1941.\n\nAnswers.com has a summary of the Pacific portion of WWII\nwhere they explain many events which lead up to the war\n(covering the period before 1941), followed by an \nexplicit list of events from 1941 on.\n\nThere's a history of WW2 at reference #2, and if you look\nfor the heading: "East Asia and the Pacific", it lists\nseveral specific events between 1937 and 1941 which\nwere related to the war (ie. Japan's attack on  China\non July 7, 1937; the Battle of Shanghai; the signing of\nthe Tripartite Pact on 27 September, 1940, etc).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
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what was the roles of women during and after world war 2
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Germany - Wilhelm II\nAustro - Hungarian - Franz Josef I\nOttoman - Mehmed Rechad V\nBulgaria - Ferdinand I