people Flashcards
Winston churchill label
PM of Britain during the war
Winston churchill info
May 1940, Neville Chamberlain resigns as PM of the UK → King George VI asks Winston Churchill to become PM
Churchill has been warning the world about Hitler for many years → does not trust him.
Believes only outcome victory against the Axis will save democracy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt label + info
PM of the united states that helped the Great Depression
Joseph Stalin label
DIctator of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin info
The KGB (a government agency) was created to arrest anyone who was a threat to Stalin’s government.
Totalitarianism
Stalin’s Soviet Union
- He implemented five-year plans to industrialize and control the economy
- Focused economic production on industry and military, ignored needs of people
- Censorship
- Secret Police
- Great Purge
Stalin’s Holodomor
- Stalin’s human-made famine and genocide in Ukraine (1932-33)
- Deliberately deprived Ukrainians of food → part of broader campaign to crush Ukrainian resistance
Tommy Douglas label
Leader of the first socialist party
premier of saskatchewan
Tommy Douglas info
Introduced free healthcare and other social programs
gave the mouseland speech
Programs brought in by Douglas
Offers free healthcare for cancer patients, pensions
Who opposed Tommy Douglas
Large corporations
Newspapers
What happened on June 15, 1944
first provincial socialist government
Benito Mussolini label
Dictator of Italy
Benito Mussolini info
To gain power in Italy he promised to address economic threats of communism and eliminate the nation’s problems.
Italy prepared to invade Ethiopia
Got schools to change their curriculum→ Brainwash youth.
Emperor Hirohito label
Emperor of Japan
Emperor Hirohito info
Symbolic Figurehead of the Japanese state, considered divine by religious belief
had influence over government policies and decisions, especially war and foreign relations
Totalitarianism
CD Howe label
Minister of Munitions and Supply
CD Howe info
Given authority to do whatever it took to gear up the economy to meet war demands
Convinced manufacturers to make goods
Harry Truman label
Head of the Senate War Investigation Committee (had power after Roosevelt’s death)
Harry Truman info
Aided the waste and corruption
Made crucial decisions in WW2
Ordered the two bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Elsie MacGill label
First woman in the world to earn an aeronautical engineering degree
Elsie MacGill info
Hawker Hurricane
Organized production to get to Britain
Fired bc she was in a relationship with the manager – immediately found jobs in Toronto and got married
The only women that graduated from MIT at that time
Tommy Prince info (no label needed)
most decorated Indigenous War Hero and Indigenous Advocate
William Lyon Mckenzie King label
PM of Canada through Depression and WW2
