Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, and a writer. One of the best leaders of the 20th century, Churchill took a stand against the Nazis, unlike the coward Neville Chamberlain. FDR was a terrible authoritarian socialist who sent people to prison camps based on their ethnicity.
I wrote about him along with other people and battles. If any of you are interested, the book is called The Attack of the Nazis. No one? Okay, then try to prove me wrong.
FDR, fearing a nonexistent Fifth Column, refused to let in the Jews during the Holocaust. Churchill made some mistakes, but overall, he was the superior leader during WWII.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and dominated his party for many years as a central figure in world events... read more He helped America get through the Depression (even though that was before World War II).
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Georgian dictator, and was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Holding the post of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state. If it wasn't for his Five-Year Plans, the Soviet Union would have been in no condition to fight against the Third Reich.
He wasn't a good guy, I know, but he was able to push back the Nazis and Hitler, which was important at the time. As I said in the description, this is based on leadership, not humanity.
Yeah, he was a bad guy, but he was the one who occupied Berlin and separated it into West Berlin and East Berlin. World War II ended because of him.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
General George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. was a General of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. George S. Patton was in charge of the first motorized American attack and led the first American tank attack, contributing to the Allied victory in World War I. In World War II, he led America and the Allies to victory in Africa and Europe. He should be ranked number one.
Some call him the greatest general of all time. I heard he was quite tough.
Erwin Rommel
Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, popularly known as the Desert Fox, was a German field marshal of World War II. He worked under Adolf Hitler's Third Reich as a leading general and gained fame from his battles in North Africa. One of my favorite German commanders during the Second World War. His tactics were genius! He did not commit any war crimes and was rumored to have buried dead officers of his opponents with military honors.
Not only was he a great general but also one with morals. Even though he was close with Hitler, he disobeyed many Nazi orders, such as killing POWs.
He was a Field Marshal in World War II, and he led a very large division in North Africa.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 - April 30, 1945) was a German politician of Austrian descent who served as the leader of the Nazi Party since 1921, Chancellor of Germany since 1933, and Führer of Nazi Germany since 1934. As dictator of Nazi Germany, he reversed the Treaty of Versailles, initiated World... read more
Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974) was a Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He also served as Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defence, and was a member of the Presidium of the Communist Party (later Politburo). During the Second World War, Zhukov oversaw... read more Zhukov led the counterattack against the German forces at the Battle of Stalingrad and fortified Kursk as a "fortress city." He was also one of the few who could stand up to Stalin without being killed, and he played a role in removing Lavrentiy Beria, the head of the NKVD and one of Stalin's cronies.
Zhukov defended the city of Stalingrad until the counterattack began, which saw the Wehrmacht (German army), Romanian army, and Hungarian army encircled and brought to their knees.
General Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 – April 5, 1964) was an American Field Marshall and Five-Star General. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930's and played a significant role in the World War II Pacific Theatre. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines... read more
Chiang Kai-shek
The Newcomers
? Christian X of Denmark
? William Lyon Mackenzie King
The Contenders
Erich von Manstein
Fritz Erich Georg Eduard von Manstein (24 November 1887 – 9 June 1973) was a German commander of the Wehrmacht, Nazi Germany's armed forces during the Second World War. He attained the rank of field marshal. Why isn't he at the top? Manstein is the best Field Marshal of World War II. No general can ever match him in strategies and tactics. Even Zhukov himself feared him.
Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman. He was the leader of Free France (1940–44) and the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944–46). In 1958, he founded the Fifth Republic and was elected as the 18th... read more
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until he was ousted in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship... read more
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States and an American politician from the Democratic Party. The atomic bombs were necessary. A full-scale invasion of the Japanese mainland would have resulted in the deaths of not only soldiers but also even more civilians. We also can't forget that Japan committed war crimes that even the Nazis, their own allies, were disgusted by.
I don't see what's wrong with him.
Haakon VII of Norway
Bernard Montgomery
Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito)
Hideki Tojo
Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 27th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, from October 17, 1941, to July 22, 1944. As Prime Minister, he was responsible for ordering the attack on Pearl Harbor,... read more Tojo was Japan's Prime Minister during most of WWII and the one who gave the order for the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor, as well as numerous other war crimes. Tojo was found guilty after the war and was executed by hanging on December 23, 1948.
Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz (7 May 1892, Kumrovec – 4 May 1980, Ljubljana), commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various roles until his death in 1980. During World War II he was the leader of the Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement... read more The leader of the Yugoslav partisans, Tito started small but managed to fight not only the Axis forces in the Balkans (German, Italian, Bulgarian, and Hungarian soldiers) but also the Chetniks, who were Monarchists. Despite these challenges, Tito managed to win and create one of the few places where socialism could work, unifying various ethnic groups until the 1980s, after his death.
Tito led what was arguably the most effective and successful partisan movement in occupied Europe. By the time the Soviets arrived in 1944, Tito's forces had already liberated about half of Yugoslavia.
George Marshall
John Curtin
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949, until his death in 1976... read more
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Respected by Stalin and Hitler.
Risto Ryti
Ryti was president of Finland from 1940 to 1944 and led Finland through a dangerous period when it risked invasion from the Soviet Union. He successfully united the parties of Finland behind him and walked a tightrope, allowing Finland to accept an element of German military protection without becoming a Nazi-controlled state.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk