Who are the five most important people involved in WW2?

Question

In your own opinion

Answer 1

Obviously Hitler would be number one. He was a horrible person, but there would be no WW II without him. Then there's Emp. Hirohito, ditto for the above. No WW II without him either.

Then there are the people who fought against the two above mentioned bad guys: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. Little did we know that Stalin was a bad guy also, he killed three times as many Russians as Hitler killed Jews, but they were his own people so no one really cares. But as they say, "my enemy's enemy is my friend"

Answer 2

1: Hitler, an obvious choice and well explained by previous posters.
2. Georgi Zhukov. If his only importance had been his victory in the Battle of Moscow, he might still be on the list, because that victory doomed Germany to an unwinnable war of attrition. But he also stopped Army Group North outside of Leningrad, engineered the Soviet victories at Stalingrad and Kursk, and led the forces that took Berlin. He also dealt a crushing defeat to Japanese forces at Khalkin Gol in an undeclared border war in August of 1939. The drubbing the Japanese took there heavily influenced Japan's decision to stay out of the War with the Soviet Union and instead attack the US in 1941.
3. Winston Churchill. Would be #1 on my list of most admirable figures of the war- courageous and brilliant.
4: FDR. found a way to help England when most Americans were firmly isolationist. Had the vision to see the danger Hitler posed, and the political skill to do something about it in spite of public opinion.
5: Joseph Stalin. Thouroughly evil, cared absolutely nothing for the lives of his soldiers, or anyone else for that matter. But he learned (just in time) to listen to his generals, and by staying in Moscow in 1941, he gave some hope to an army and nation that could easily have collapsed.

Answer 3

From my perspective, there were actually six influential and important people that were involved in World War II not five.
The Axis:
Adolf Hitler from Germany
Emperor Hirohito from Japan
Benito Mussolini from Italy
The Allies:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt from USA
Winston Churchil from UK
Joseph Stalin from Soviet Union

Answer 4

The most important is often the most overlooked. If Lloyd George of Britain, Orlando of Italy, Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of the U.S. had heeded the advice given in a book entitled "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" by John Maynard Keynes, World War Two would not have happened.

He wrote it immediately following World War One, and even predicted the emmergence of a terrible world blight (which came in the form of wild inflation in Germany in the days that Hitler came to power) if the reparations levied against Germany after WWI were not designed with wisdom. The Treaty of Versailles levied huge, totally unreasonable reparation demands on Germany, and the rest is history.

Answer 5

Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Josef Stalin
Tojo
Franklin Roosevelt

These were the leaders that defined strategic goals for their respective nations. Japan is the only one where it is not a political figure because the Emperor was not very influential in terms of decision making. Later, at the end of the war, Hirohito exerted what influence he could to stop the fighting.

Answer 6

Politically I think everyone agrees on those five. Being a military historian though I would rank the likes of Eisenhower, Patton, Rommel, Yamamoto, Douglas MacArthur. Also, if you wanted to go into most important people who had intellectual influence, how about Einstein, Oppenheimer (sp), Fermi, and other leaders of the Manahatten Project.

Answer 7

Adolf Hitler.
Erwin Rommel.
Winston Churchill.
Bernard Montgomery.
Dwight Eisenhower.

Answer 8

Lord Beaverbrook
Clement Atlee
Lord Halifax
Anthony Eden
Sir John Anderson,

Answer 9

Winston churchhill
Adolph Hitler
Joseph "uncle joe" Stalin
FDR
Emperior Heriheto

Answer 10

My grandparents and my father.

Why? Because I exist :D

lol I got a lot of thumbsdown for my answer. But it's a valid answer, especially if the Asker is planning a essay for class; s/he could write about what his FAMILY's experiences were in context of more objective history; and I didn't *I* am the most important result lol any more than each of YOU are; if YOU had parents/grandparents/great-grands in a WW, aren't they among the most important people in it??? Since they survived to contribute to you? History CAN and does have personal meaning, is my point.