World War IIImportant People

Mr. Glay

8th Grade American History

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the thirty-fourth President of the U.S. from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general in the US Army. During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

• He was responsible with planning and carrying out the Allied assault on the coast of Normandy in June 1944.

• He ordered camera crews to record and document evidence of the atrocity of the concentration camps so that those responsible could be punished.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Five star General Eisenhower

Eisenhower appeared on the one dollar coin from 1971 until 1978.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

• He Repealed prohibition (making alcohol legal)• He created the social security Act- Workers and

employers made payments into a special fund from which they would draw a pension when they retire. The pension paid between 10-85 dollars a month. This act also helped laid off workers and the disabled.

• The FDIC- Federal Deposit Insurance, Protected the money people deposited in banks.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

• The Works Progress Administration (WPA) which created jobs by building freeways, damns and bridges.

• He served four terms as president• February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt

signed Executive Order 9066 which imprisoned the first generation of Japanese who immigrated to the US and their children

FDR’s Funeral

• FDR Died April 12, 1945.

• He was replaced by Harry Truman

Harry Truman

• Harry Truman took over for President Roosevelt on April 12, 1945.

• He inherited quite a mess. He was engaged in the deadliest war to date and had to make a moral decision on whether or not to use the atomic bomb.

Harry Truman

• Harry Truman decided that the best way to end the war and save American lives was to use the atomic bomb.

• On the morning of August 6, 1945, at 8:15, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb, Little Boy, on Hiroshima. Two days later, having heard nothing from the Japanese government, the U.S. military proceeded with its plans to drop a second atomic bomb. On August 9, Nagasaki was also devastated with a bomb, Fat Man, dropped by the B-29 bomber Bockscar. The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945

Douglas MacArthur

MacArthur and American soldiers coming ashore.

Douglas MacArthur

• MacArthur was in charge of the battle in the Pacific.

• He received the Medal of Honor for his early service in the Philippines and on the Bataan Peninsula.

Douglas MacArthur

• He was designated to command the proposed invasion of Japan in November 1945. When that was no longer necessary, because of the atomic bomb, he officially accepted the nation's surrender on September 2, 1945.

• MacArthur oversaw the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951.