USA HISTORY

Which WWII Key Figure does the list best describe?-He rose to power in Germany-He ruled as a dictator-He used military aggression against the rest of Europe

(A) Winston Churchill

(B) ** Adolf Hitler

(C) Benito Mussolini

(D) Joseph Stalin

Concept note-1: -Adolf Hitler’s Rise to Power. Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889-April 30, 1945) was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945.

Concept note-2: -Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads accompanied the German armed forces inside the occupied territories and conducted the genocide of millions of Jews and other Holocaust victims. After 1941, millions of others were imprisoned, worked to death, or murdered in Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps.

Concept note-3: -The chief leaders were Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany, Benito Mussolini of Fascist Italy, and Hirohito of Imperial Japan. Unlike what happened with the Allies, there was never a joint meeting of the main Axis heads of government, although Mussolini and Hitler met on a regular basis.

Concept note-4: -Although the United States played the dominant role, all three major Allied countries were necessary to victory in Europe. The most important contribution made by Britain was to survive Hitler’s onslaught in 1940. Had the British failed to hold off the Nazis, the Second World War would have taken a far different turn.