World War II (1939-1946)
By: editor, Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD
Series: Defining documents in American history
Publisher: Salem Press/Grey House Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Ipswich, MA; Amenia, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781619257375
Copyright date: 2015
Table of contents: title: Volume 1.; title: The lead-up to war.; title: Letter from President Roosevelt to Chancellor Adolf Hitler; title: F.D.R. : There will be no blackout of peace in America; title: President Roosevelt's speech recommending revision of the neutrality law; title: We must not falter now; title: Compulsory service must be adopted; title: The country is being rushed into military conscription; title: Proclamation 2425 : selective service registration; title: Our own democracy is threatened; title: We ought to stay out of the war; title: Lend-Lease Act; title: Charles Lindbergh : radio address; title: Joint resolution of the US Congress reaffirming the principles of the Monroe Doctrine; title: Pearl Harbor.; title: Memorandum for the President, December 7, 1941; title: Fourteen-part message from Japan to the United States and Secretary Hull's response; title: The man in the street reacts to Pearl Harbor; title: Franklin Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor speech; title: Domestic aliens.; title: The Japanese American creed; title: Excerpts of the Munson Report; title: Presidential Proclamation 2526 : Alien-enemies : Germans; title: Presidential Proclamation 2527 : Alien-enemies : Italians; title: Let us not persecute these people; title: Executive Order 9066 : wartime relocation and internment of civilians; title: To all persons of Japanese ancestry; title: An interview with an older Nisei; title: Other demographics.; title: Executive Order 8802 : fair employment practice in defense industries; title: Those who deserve freedom will fight for it; title: The colored people are still waiting, still watchful; title: Letter recommending Navajo enlistment; title: The American workers' responsibility; title: Women's part in the war effort; title: Don't make slaves of future generations; title: President Roosevelt's "call for sacrifice"; title: We love honor more than we fear death; title: Let us have action for women instead of lip-service; title: An act to repeal the Chinese Exclusion Acts; title: Foreign policy.; title: Atlantic Charter; title: Joint message of assistance to the Soviet Union from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Chuchill; title: German declaration of war with the United States; title: Our heritage can be preserved only by fighting; title: Declaration by the United Nations; title: We need tanks, not talk; title: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's broadcast to Canadians; title: More dollars do not mean more goods; title: Master lend-lease agreement; title: Mutual aid agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union; title: The war and human freedom; title: Casablanca Conference; title: Volume 2.; title: War and victory.; title: Digest of Operation Overlord; title: What shall we do with Germany?; title: Armistice with Italy; title: Moscow declaration regarding the postwar period; title: Cairo Declaration; title: The spirit of liberty; title: General Dwight D. Eisenhower's order of the day; title: The invasion starts; title: The public's responsibility towards veterans; title: Radio address by General Douglas MacArthur at the Leyte beachhead; title: Protocol of proceedings of Crimea (Yalta) Conference; title: Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority by Allied powers; title: The Holocaust.; title: Letter regarding the plight of German Jews; title: Notices to the US State Department regarding Nazi plans to eliminate Jews; title: Cable from London to Rabbi Stephen Wise regarding the Final Solution; title: The American Jewish leaders' meeting with President Roosevelt; title: Report on the failure of the US State Department to assist European Jews; title: Memo on Army policy regarding refugee rescue; title: January 1943 telegram confirming reports of mass executions of Jews in Poland; title: Rosenheim letter requesting bombing of deportation rail lines; title: War Department cable refusing to bomb deportation railways; title: Nuremberg.; title: Report to the president by Mr. Justice Jackson; title: Rehabilitation and moral reconstruction for Germany; title: International conference on military trials : agreement and charter; title: Statement by Justice Jackson on war trial agreement; title: The atom bomb.; title: Albert Einstein's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt; title: A petition to the president regarding the atomic bomb; title: President Truman's announcement of the Hiroshima bombing; title: Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers' General Order No. 1; title: Declaration on the atomic bomb; title: The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki : the nature of an atomic explosion; title: The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki : the selection of the target; title: The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki : main conclusions; title: Appendixes.; title: Chronological list; title: Web resources; title: Bibliography