General Eisenhower was Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during 1944's Operation Overlord. īy 1942, Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Premier of the Soviet Union, overseeing the Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943).Īs United States Army Chief of Staff in 1943, General Marshall was instrumental in organizing US actions in World War II. The editors had already chosen Dumbo as their "Mammal of the Year" before the Pearl Harbor attack, but quickly changed it to Roosevelt. Roosevelt was President of the United States in 1941 during the attack on Pearl Harbor, declaration of war against Japan and resulting entry of the United States into World War II. He oversaw the signing of a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany before invading eastern Poland.Ĭhurchill was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation and the Battle of Britain. In 1939, Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and de facto leader of the Soviet Union. Instead of a conventional portrait, the cover was an illustration by Rudolph von Ripper entitled 'Hitler Plays the Hymn of Hate'. Īs Chancellor of Germany, Hitler oversaw the unification of Germany with Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938, after the Anschluss and Munich Agreement respectively. Addressed as Madame Chiang Kai-Shek by the magazine, she was recognized together with her husband as "Man & Wife of the Year". Soong was wife of Chiang Kai-shek from 1927 until his death in 1975. In 1936, Simpson's relationship with King Edward VIII led the king to abdicate his throne in order to marry her.Ĭhiang was Premier of the Republic of China at the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Selassie was Emperor of Ethiopia in 1935, when Italian forces invaded Ethiopia, starting the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. In 1934, Roosevelt's New Deal reforms were beginning to bear fruit. Roosevelt was President of the United States from 1933 to 1945. Roosevelt gave him the task of bringing industry, labor and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices. In 1933 Johnson was appointed director of the National Recovery Administration. Roosevelt won the 1932 US Presidential election by a landslide, defeating the incumbent, Herbert Hoover. Laval was popular in the American press at the time for opposing the Hoover Moratorium, a temporary freeze on World War I debt payments that was disliked in both France and the US. Laval was first elected Prime Minister of France in 1931. In 1930, he led the Salt Satyagraha, a 240-mile march to protest the imposition of taxes on salt by the British Raj. Gandhi was the leader of the India's independence movement. Young chaired a committee which authored 1929's Young Plan, a program for settlement of German reparations after World War I. In 1928, Chrysler oversaw a merger of his Chrysler Corporation with Dodge before beginning work on the Chrysler Building. Louis from Garden City, New York to Paris, France. Lindbergh completed the first solo transatlantic flight in May 1927 by piloting his monoplane Spirit of St. Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi were chosen as runners-up.
The Decemissue of Time named Albert Einstein the " Person of the Century". Roosevelt is the only person to have been named Person of the Year three times. Since the list began, every serving President of the United States has been a Person of the Year at least once, except for Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Gerald Ford. Since then, Persons of the Year have included groups, whole generations, important objects, and even the Earth. The first Person of the Year was aviator Charles Lindbergh, in 1927.
Every year, Time chooses the person who they think has had the most effect on the things that have happened in that year (whether those things were good or bad). This means that being chosen is not an award, like being chosen as the "best person of the year." The Person of the Year may be an enemy of the United States, like Adolf Hitler (1938) or Joseph Stalin (19). It can be a person, group, idea, or thing that "for better or for worse.has done the most to influence the events of the year". The "Person of the Year" is not always a person. Until 1999, it was called "Man of the Year." Person of the Year is an issue of the United States magazine Time that has come out each year since 1927.