World War II (1939-1946)
This 2-volume resource contains 80 primary source documents that provide a compelling view of this unique period of American history. World War II is remembered not only for its violent encounters on the battlefield, its war of words between competing ideologies, its genocidal events, and, ultimatel...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ipswich, Massachusetts :
Salem Press : Grey House Publishing
2015.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Defining Documents in American History. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3926192x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Volume 1. The lead-up to war. Letter from President Roosevelt to Chancellor Adolf Hitler ; F.D.R: There will be no blackout of peace in America ; President Roosevelt's speech recommending revision of the neutrality law ; We must not falter now ; Compulsory service must be adopted ; The country is being rushed into military conscription ; Proclamation 2425: selective service registration ; Our own democracy is threatened ; We ought to stay out of the war ; Lend-Lease Act ; Charles Lindbergh: Radio address ; Joint resolution of the US Congress reaffirming the principles of the Monroe Doctrine
- Pearl Harbor. Memorandum for the President, December 7, 1941 ; Fourteen-part message from Japan to the United States and Secretary Hull's response ; The man in the street reacts to Pearl Harbor ; Franklin Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor speech
- Domestic aliens. The Japanese American creed ; Excerpts of the Munson report ; Presidential Proclamation 2526: Alien-enemies-Germans ; Presidential Proclamation 2527: Alien-enemies-Italians ; Let us not persecute these people ; Executive Order 9066
- Wartime relocation and internment of civilians ; To all persons of Japanese ancestry ; An interview with an older Nisei
- Other demographics. Executive Order 8802
- Fair employment practice in defense industries ; Those who deserve freedom will fight for it ; The colored people are still waiting, still watchful ; Letter recommending Navajo enlistment ; The American workers' responsibility ; Women's part in the war effort ; Don't make slaves of future generations ; President Roosevelt's "call for sacrifice" ; We love honor more than we fear death ; Let us have action for women instead of lip-service ; An act to repeal the Chinese exclusion acts
- Foreign policy. Atlantic charter ; Joint message of assistance to the Soviet Union from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill ; German declaration of war with the United States ; Our heritage can be preserved only by fighting ; Declaration by the United Nations ; We need tanks, not talk ; President Franklin D. Roosevelt's broadcast to Canadians ; More dollars do not mean more goods
- Master lend-lease agreement ; Mutual aid agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union ; The war and human freedom ; Casablanca conference
- Volume 2. War and victory. Digest of Operation Overlord ; What shall we do with Germany? ; Armistice with Italy ; Moscow declaration regarding the postwar period ; Cairo declaration ; The spirit of liberty ; General Dwight D. Eisenhower's order of the day ; The invasion starts ; The public's responsibility towards veterans ; Radio address by General Douglas MacArthur at the Leyte beachhead ; Protocol of proceedings of Crimea (Yalta) conference ; Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority by Allied powers
- The holocaust. Letter regarding the plight of German Jews ; Notices to the US State Department regarding Nazi plans to eliminate Jews ; Cable from London to Rabbi Stephen Wise regarding the final solution ; The American Jewish leaders' meeting with President Roosevelt ; Report on the failure of the US State Department to assist European Jews ; Memo on army policy regarding refugee rescue ; January 1943 telegram confirming reports of mass executions of Jews in Poland ; Rosenheim letter requesting bombing of deportation rail lines ; War Department cable refusing to bomb deportation railways
- Nuremberg. Report to the president by Mr. Justice Jackson ; Rehabilitation and moral reconstruction for Germany ; International conference on military trials
- agreement and charter ; Statement by Justice Jackson on war trial agreement
- The atom bomb. Albert Einstein's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt ; A petition to the president regarding the atomic bomb ; President Truman's announcement of the Hiroshima bombing ; Supreme commander for the Allied powers' general order no. 1 ; Declaration on the atomic bomb ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the nature of an atomic explosion ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the selection of the target ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: main conclusions.
