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1940:
Against Isolationism -
Senator James F. Byrnes (SC) Refutes Lindbergh |
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1940:
Alien Registration [Smith] Act |
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1940:
“Not So Private Negotiations” - Mexico Expropriates the
Oil Companies |
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1940:
The Reply to Mexico - Standard Oil Puts Forth Its
Position |
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1940:
Statement of Policy on Segregation in the Armed Forces submitted by
Robert P. Patterson, Assistant Secretary of War and approved by
President Roosevelt (10/9) |
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1940s:
Women Defense Workers - photos |
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1940s:
Women on the Home Front During World War II |
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1940s:
"Zoot-Suits and Parachutes" - song lyrics about the
WASPs |
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1940-60:
American Birthrate, 1940-1960 - chart |
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1940-62:
National Defense Budgets, 1940-1964 - chart |
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1940-90:
Budget Deficits, 1940-1990 - chart |
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1940-95:
US military
(national defense) outlays, 1940-95 |
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1941-42:
Women in the Defense Industry (photos) |
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1941-43:
African-American Fighter Pilots |
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1941-45?:
"Above
and Beyond the Call of Duty" -- Dorie Miller by David
Stone Martin printed by the Government Printing Office for the Office
of War Information |
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1941-45?:
"This is
America....where the family is a sacred institution..." - war poster |
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1941-45?:
"Victory Waits on Your Fingers" - WW II propaganda poster
produced by the Royal Typewriter Company for the U.S. Civil Service
Commission |
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1941-45?:
"We Can Do It!"
- WW II propaganda poster by J. Howard Miller for the War Production
Co-ordinating Committee |
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1941-46:
Pearl Harbor
Attack Investigations (multi document links) |
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1941:
“80 Rounds in Our Pants Pockets” - Orville Quick
Remembers Pearl Harbor (as recalled in 1991) |
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1941:
Address Delivered by President Roosevelt at Washington
(3/15) |
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1941:
Address by Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka,
Delivered Before the 76th Session of the Imperial Diet, Jan. 21 |
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1941:
“Aluminum for Defense” - Rationing at Home during World
War II |
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1941:
Atlantic
Charter |
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1941:
Attack at Pearl Harbor -
eyewitness account (U. S. view) |
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1941:
Attack at Pearl Harbor -
the Japanese view |
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1941:
Cartoonists on the Picket Line - The Walt Disney Studio
Strike |
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1941:
Charles Lindbergh, Radio Address |
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1941:
"A Date Which
Will Live in Infamy" speech - Franklin D. Roosevelt (12/8) |
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1941:
Declaration of a State of War with Germany, Italy, & Japan
(multiple document links on one page) |
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1941:
Executive Order 8802 (6/25) |
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1941:
Fireside Chat on the
Declaration of War with Japan - FDR (12/9) |
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1941:
"Four
Freedoms" Speech - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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1941:
German
Declaration of War on the United States |
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1941:
Japanese Note
to the United States United States December 7 |
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1941:
Joint Resolution Declaring That a State of War Exists
Between The Imperial Government of Japan and the Government And the
People of the United States and Making Provisions To Prosecute the
Same (12/8) |
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1941:
Lend-Lease Act (3/11) |
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1941:
The “Man in the Street” Reacts to Pearl Harbor |
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1941:
Memorandum, "Saving the Race," Thurgood Marshall to the
NAACP
legal staff concerning voting rights cases in Texas (11/17) |
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1941:
Message
to Congress on the Atlantic Charter - Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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1941:
Mitchell v. United States |
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1941:
Naval dispatch from the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC)
announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (12/7) |
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1941:
Pearl Harbor Attack - photo |
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1941:
Proclamation 2525 - Alien Enemies - Japanese (12/7) |
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1941:
Proclamation
2526 - Alien Enemies - Germans (12/8)
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1941:
Proclamation 2527 - Alien Enemies - Italians (12/8) |
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1941:
Proclamation of Unlimited National Emergency |
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1941:
"Remember Pearl
Harbor" - song lyrics by Don Reid |
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1941:
Third Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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1941:
“This Is No Joke--This Is War” - A Live Radio Broadcast
of the Attack on Pearl Harbor |
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1941:
U.S.-Japan Diplomatic Communications
Prior to Pearl Harbor - many memorandums, telegrams, etc. in
chronological order (over 195 individual documents) |
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1941:
United States
Note to Japan (11/26) |
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1941:
"Our
destiny is in his hands. We will not accept a Hitler-dominated world."
- a reproduction of a cartoon from the Detroit Free Press of
Thursday, 5/29 |
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1941-42:
Various documents on the Internment of Japanese-Americans
(additional documents) |
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1941-42:
Washington Conference Documents
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1942:
Address by Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State at
the Third Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American
Republics (1/24) |
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1942:
"Behind the
News": Japanese Won't be Welcomed Back - San Francisco News (4/29) |
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1942:
"Behind the
News": Negro-Japanese Fifth Column Possible" - San Francisco News
(3/2) |
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1942:
Battle of Midway -
eyewitness account |
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1942:
Concentration
Camps for Japanese Wanted by Western Governors - San Francisco News
(3/2) |
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1942:
"Dear
Mr. President" - song lyrics by Pete Seeger |
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1942:
"Don't Let That
Shadow Touch Them" - WW II propaganda poster by Lawrence B. Smith
produced for the U. S. Treasury by the GPO |
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1942:
Editorial--"Their Best Way to Show Loyalty" - San Francisco News
(3/6) |
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1942:
Executive Order 9066 - FDR - relocation of Japanese-Americans
directive (2/19) |
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1942:
Fireside Chat on the
Subject of Total War and Total Effort - FDR (4/28) |
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1942:
Fireside Chat on
Inflation and the Progress of the War - FDR (9/7) |
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1942:
"Gas Rationing" - Jack
Benny, Burns & Allen radio comedy show (sound file) |
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1942:
"Greatest Forced
Migration in American History to Begin" - San Francisco News
(3/4) |
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1942:
"Grow it
Yourself" - war poster by Herbert Bayer (Rural Electrification Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture) |
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1942:
"Instructions
to all Persons of Japanese Ancestry" leaflet/poster - distributed by
the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control
Administration, Presidio of San Francisco, CA (5/3) - photo by
Dorothea Lange |
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1942:
A Japanese Soldier Describes the Horrors of Guadalcanal |
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1942:
Letter to Republican Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce from Lt. John F.
Kennedy, U. S. Navy |
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1942:
"Manzanar Nice
Place – It Better Than Hollywood," by United Press – (4/21) |
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1942:
Map of the Relocation and Assembly Centers
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1942:
Milton Eisenhower Justifies the Internment of Japanese
Americans |
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1942:
Mutual
Aid Agreement Between the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. (6/11) |
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1942:
"Native American Women Marine Reservists" - photo |
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1942:
“Obey Your Air Raid Warden” - Big Band as Public
Service Announcement |
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1942:
"Our of Their Mouths" - Sterling A. Brown |
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1942:
"Praise the Lord,
and Pass the Ammunition" - song lyrics by Frank Loesser |
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1942:
"Remember
Pearl Harbor / Purl Harder" - war poster (New York City WPA War
Service) |
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1942:
“Shaping Mental and Moral Forces” - Memo on Propaganda |
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1942:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1941 - "Franklin
D. Roosevelt" (1/5 issue) |
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1942:
"Why Should We March?" - A. Philip Randolph |
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1942:
World War II Ration Book and Stamps |
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1942-45:
"That
Damned Fence" - anonymous poem circulated at the Poston, AZ relocation
camp |
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1942-45:
Various
Documents on "What We Are Fighting For" |
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1943:
"Because
Somebody Talked!" - WW II propaganda poster by Wesley for the Office
of War Information |
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1943:
Cairo
Conference |
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1943:
Casablanca Conference |
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1943:
Equal Pay for Equal Work - The War Labor Board on
Gender Inequality |
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1943:
Final Report:
Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast in 1942 - Lt. Gen. John L.
DeWitt |
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1943:
Fireside Chat on the
Progress of the War and Plans for Peace - FDR (7/28) |
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1943:
Fireside Chat on the
Teheran and Cairo Conferences - FDR (12/24) |
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1943: "Four
Freedoms" posters by Norman Rockwell-->
speech
worship
from want
from fear |
|
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1943:
Hirabayashi v. United States |
|
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1945:
“Interview with . . .
an Older Nisei” - Morris E. Opler, Manzanar Community
Analysis Report No. 36, (7/26) |
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1943:
Japanese Relocation (photos) |
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1943:
Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
thanking the physicist and his colleagues for their ongoing
secret atomic research (6/29) |
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1943:
Letter to Mr. & Mrs. Sullivan on the Death of their 5 sons - FDR |
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1943:
Magnuson Act |
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1943:
"No Time to
Let Loose: It's a Fight to the Finish" - propaganda poster |
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1943:
“Pachucos in the
Making” - George I. Sanchez in Common Ground (Autumn) |
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1943:
“Post Xchange,”
Yank, the Army Weekly (8/6) |
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1943:
Secretary of State Stimson Asks Senator Truman Not to Inquire about
the Manhattan Project - transcribed telephone conversation (6/17) |
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1943:
“A Square Deal” - The Michigan CIO Debates the
No-Strike Pledge |
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1943:
Teheran
Conference |
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1943:
The War Labor Board Insists on Equal Pay for Black
Workers |
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1943:
“We’re Looking for Zoot-Suits to Burn” - Mexican
Americans and the Zoot Suit Riots |
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1943:
"Woman Power" - Saturday Evening Post (6/12) |
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1943:
West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette -- issue of
coerced speech |
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1943: Yasui
v. the United States |
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1943:
The Zoot Suit - photo of Cab Calloway |
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1943-44:
Excerpts from WASP Madge Rutherford Minton's letters
home |
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1944:
"American
Women in the War" - Eleanor Roosevelt in
The Reader's Digest |
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1944:
Bretton Woods Agreements |
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1944:
"Captain Waskow's Men Say Good-Bye" - Ernie Pyle |
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1944:
Dumbarton Oaks- Washington Conversations on International Peace and
Security Organization (10/7) |
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1944:
ex parte Endo |
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1944:
Fireside Chat on the
Fall of Rome - FDR (6/5) |
|
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1944:
Franklin Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer (6/6) |
|
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1944:
Franklin Roosevelt's Press Conference on D-Day |
|
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1944:
Franklin Roosevelt Memorandum to Cordell Hull on
Indochina (1/24) |
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1944:
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day (6/6) |
|
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1944:
General George S. Patton's speech to the troops before D-Day (5/17) |
|
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1944:
G. I. Bill |
|
|
1944:
A GI's Trip to London -
personal account |
|
|
1944:
“Hello, You Fighting Orphans” - 'Tokyo Rose' Woos U.S.
Sailors and Marines |
|
|
1944:
Korematsu v. United States |
|
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1944:
Limerick #1 by Fred R. Hines in New York Journal-American
(October) |
|
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1944:
"Longing
Won't Get Him back Sooner . . .Get a War Job!" by Lawrence
Wilbur - printed by the Government Printing Office for the War
Manpower Commission |
|
|
1944:
President Roosevelt defends
his dog Fala on radio (sound file) |
|
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1944:
Reporter George Hicks on a
destroyer offshore of Normandy on D-Day (sound file) |
|
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1944:
Smith v. Allwright |
|
|
1944:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1943 - "George C. Marshall: The
General" (1/3 issue) |
|
|
1944:
“We Need to Exterminate Them” - A Marine Describes the
Battle of Guam |
|
|
1944:
"Woman's
Place After the War" - Eleanor Roosevelt in Click (Aug.) |
|
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1945:
Allied Supreme Commander, General Eisenhower's speech to the Royal
Family (6/12) |
|
|
1945:
Announcement on Hiroshima |
|
|
1945:
"Atomic Age" - excerpts from a Time article of August 20 |
|
|
1945:
The Atomic Bombing
of Hiroshima - eyewitness account by Father P. Siemes, a German
Catholic priest |
|
|
1945:
Attitude of the American Government Toward Palestine: Letter
from
President Roosevelt to King Ibn Saud (4/5) |
|
|
1945:
"Buy, Buy, Buy, Buy a
Bond!" - song lyrics |
|
|
1945:
Colonel Paul Tibbets
describes his dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima (sound file) |
|
|
1945:
The Bombing of Hiroshima - Harry Truman |
|
|
1945:
The Bombing of Nagasaki (video file) |
|
|
1945:
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb: Minutes of
Meeting at White House 6/18/45 ( Evaluation of current situation
regarding the War in the Pacific against the Japanese) |
|
|
1945:
Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic
of Vietnam |
|
|
1945:
Effects of the Atomic Bomb - government report from the United States
Bombing Survey |
|
|
1945:
Emperor Hirohito, Accepting the Potsdam Declaration -
Radio Broadcast (8/14) |
|
|
1945:
Eyewitness
Accounts of the Trinity Test (July) |
|
|
1945:
Fourth Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
|
|
1945:
Germany's
Surrender Documents |
|
|
1945:
GM Rejects Reuther’s Call to “Open the Books” - The
Post-WWII Strike Wave |
|
|
1945:
Harry Truman's
Diary Entry on his decision to use the A-bomb (7/25) |
|
|
1945:
“I Saw The Walking Dead” - A Black Sergeant Remembers
Buchenwald (as recalled in the 1960s) |
|
|
1945:
Japan Surrenders Aboard the
U.S.S. Missouri (photo) |
|
|
1945:
Japanese
Surrender Documents |
|
|
1945:
Leaflets Dropped on Cities in Japan Warning Civilians
of Atomic Bomb |
|
|
1945:
Leo
Szilard's
Petition, First Version (7/3) to the President not to use the A-bomb
to end the war |
|
|
1945:
Letter from Albert Einstein to FDR |
|
|
1945:
Letter from Henry Stimson, Secretary of War to
President Truman |
|
|
1945:
New York celebrates the surrender of the Japanese (9/2) - photo |
|
|
1945:
"Old
Man Atom (The Atomic Talking Blues)" - song lyrics by Vern Partlow |
|
|
1945:
Petition to the President of the United States by Scientists at the
Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory on the Use of the A-Bomb (7/17) |
|
|
1945:
Potsdam
Conference Declaration |
|
|
1945:
TIME
Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for 1944 - "Dwight D. Eisenhower:
The Fate of the World" (1/1 issue) |
|
|
1945:
Truman Letter to his wife Bess from Berlin (7/31) |
|
|
1945:
Truman Tells Stalin About the Bomb at Potsdam (7/24) |
|
|
1945:
Survivor of Hiroshima's
personal account - Dr. Michihiko Hachiya |
|
|
1945:
United
Nations Charter |
|
|
1945:
U.S. Warning to Japan Urging Surrender (8/9) |
|
|
1945:
Vietnamese Declaration of Independence (9/3) |
|
|
1945:
A View from the Enola Gay |
|
|
1945:
White House Press Release Announcing the Bombing of Hiroshima (8/6) |
|
|
1945:
Yalta Conference
Declaration |
|
|
1945-90:
Defense Expenditures, Armed Forces Strength - chart
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|
|
1960:
"President
Truman Did Not Understand" - Interview with Dr. Leo Szilard |
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1991:
A Personal Record of Hiroshima A-bomb Survival -
Takeharu Terao
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