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Primary Sources -- World War II

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U.S. War Cabinet and other insiders

  • President Franklink D. Roosevelt

  • President Harry S. Truman

  • James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt's confidant, among other things

  • James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy, 1944-1945

  • Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, 1933-1944

  • Harold Ickes, Secretary of Interior, 1933-1945

  • Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of Treasury, 1934-1945

  • Edward Stettinius, Chairman, War Resources Board, Lend-Lease Administration; Secretary of State, 1944-1945

  • Henry Stimson, Secretary of War, 1940-1945

Allied Military Commanders

  • Charles DeGaulle

  • Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery

  • Arthur Tedder

  • Marshal Georgii Zhukov

 

Axis military Commanders

  • Admiral Dönitz

  • Field Marshal Erich von Manstein

 

Hitler's Inner Circle

  • Adolf Hitler

  • Joseph Goebbels

  • Albert Speer
     

U.S. Military Commanders

  • General H. H. Arnold, Air Force

  • General Omar Bradley

  • General Mark W. Clark

  • General Dwight (Ike) Eisenhower (later president, 1952-1960)

  • Admiral William Halsey 

  • Admiral Husband Kimmel

  • General Douglas MacArthur

  • General Erich Ludendorff

  • General George C. Marshall

  • General George Patton

  • General Matthew Ridgway 

Britain

  • Winston Churchill, Prime Minister 1940-1945

  • Sir Anthony Eden, Churchill's lieutenant during WWII

  • Sir Nevile Henderson, Ambassador to Germany, 1937-1939; counseled appeasement; delivered the ultimatum to Hitler on 9/3/1939
     

China

  • Chiang Kai-Shek
     

Japan

  • Emperor Hirohito
     

Soviet Union

  • Joseph Stalin