Doenitz was respected and trusted by Hitler and became Head of State after Hitler's death in 1945. Following the Nuremburg trials he was sentenced to ten years in prison for war crimes.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 - 1945
  President and Commander in Chief of US armed forces. Roosevelt had been President since 1933. Before the United States entered the war he was in favour of supporting Britain against the Axis. He introduced the Lend-Lease Act in order to supply Britain and her Allies with war material. Roosevelt died on April 12th 1945, shortly before the end of the war.
Harry S. Truman 1892 - 1972
  Vice President after replacing Henry Wallace in 1944. Became President in April 1945 following Roosevelt's death. During his term as Vice-President, Truman was rarely consulted by Roosevelt, however, after succeeding to the Presidency he adapted quickly to the role and the heavy responsibility of deciding upon the use of the atomic bomb.
Henry L. Stimson 1867 - 1950
  Secretary of War from July 1940. Stimson was a supporter of Lend-Lease aid to Britain and was also in favour of repealing the Neutrality Act. He was present at all the major Allied conferences during the war. Stimson introduced compulsory military service and supported using the atomic bomb against Japan. He resigned in September 1945.
Harry Hopkins 1890 - 1946
  Secretary of Commerce until August 1940 and special advisor and envoy to Roosevelt. Hopkins was a skilled mediator and often represented Roosevelt at Allied meetings. He conferred with Churchill and Stalin on wartime aid requirements and helped to get Lend-Lease underway.
Cordell Hull 1871 -1955
  Secretary of State until November 1944. Principally involved with US-Japanese negotiations before Pearl Harbor. Hull had to take on a more back seat role in international negotiations following the US entry into the war.
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. 1900 -1949
  Succeeded Hull as Secretary of State in November 1944. Stettinius had previously been special advisor to Roosevelt on matters of war production and war economics. He was succeeded by James Byrnes in July 1945.
Frank Knox 1874 -1944
  Secretary of the Navy from 1940. Knox was responsible for supplying and expanding the US Navy. He died in office in April 1944.
Admiral Ernest J. King 1878 -1956
  Chief of Naval Operations, King was known as one of the top strategic planners of the war.
General George C.