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Defining Documents in American History: World War II (1939–1946)

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note




Editor's Introduction




Contributors




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 Labor Committee's 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


Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography