WW2 Midterm 2 (key people)

Konoe Fumimaro

Prime minister of Japan

Chiang Kai-shek

Tōjō Hideki

Franklin Roosevelt

Winston Churchill

Cordell Hull

Nomura Kichisaburō

Wilhelm Keitel

Hans Frank

Lavrenty Beria

Vidkun Quisling

Philippe Petain

Yamashita Tomoyuki

Ishii Shirō

Lord Mountbatten

Joseph Stillwell

Chester Nimitz

Douglas MacArthur

Yamamoto Isoroku

Erwin Rommel

Heinrich Himmler

Reinhard Heydrich

Andrej Zhukov

Friedrich Paulus

Leon Blum

Pierre Laval

Stepan Bandera

Ion Antonescu

Ante Pavelic

Josip Tito

Ustache

Arita Hachirō

Coined the term Greater East Asian co-prosperity sphere in ‘42

Japanese PM of foreign affairs

Tōjō Hideki

Wang Jingwei

Head of the Nanjing government, in collaboration with Japan

Believed China could not withstand invasion so it must ally with Japan to achieve freedom from western imperialism

strongly anti-communist, highly nationalistic and involved in the New citizens movement

Joseph Stillwell

American, Chiang’s chief of staff, commanded divisions of the Chinese army

Victor Hope

Governor of India during the Bengal Famine in ‘38

Intentionally ignored food shortage and forced India to export allowing entire villages to starve and 2-4 million to die

Mohandes Gandhi

Independence movement leader in India, practiced peaceful resistance through riots and sabotage

Led Quit India movement (goal was to make sustaining empire so difficult they would withdraw)

Subhas Bose

Indian resistance leader, uncompromisingly British

wanted to achieve India independence by defeating Britain by allying with Japan/axis powers

formed the Indian national army and headed the Provisional government of Free India