Documents
A
Report From London From Edward R. Murrow
Roosevelt’s
1937 ‘Quarantine’ Speech
A
1941 Lindbergh Address to the America First Committee
The
Atlantic Charter (1941)
Roosevelt’s
War Message to Congress, December 8, 1941
Statement
by the President of the United States, August 6, 1945
Gar
Alperovitz’s Why We Dropped the Bomb (1965)
Roosevelt’s
Four Freedoms Address
A.
Philip Randolph’s Call to Fight Racial Discrimination
Chester
Himes’s Zoot Riots Are Race Riots
Monica
Sone’s Nisei Daughter
Josh
Pollack’s How a Nuclear Bomb Works
Excerpt
from Farewell to Manzanar
Report
Documenting the U.S. Governments Change in Attitude toward Japanese-Americans
Images
Franklin
D. Roosevelt
Photograph
of Edward R. Murrow, the Leading Reporter for CBS News
Churchill
and Roosevelt at the Atlantic Conference, August 1941
Attack
on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Allied
Bombers during the Battle of Midway, June 1942
Allied
Troops Wading Ashore during the D-Day Invasion, June 6, 1944
The
Mushroom Cloud from the Atomic Bomb Dropped on Nagasaki, August 8, 1945
Propaganda
Poster Showing the Government's Concern with Information Security
Poster
Encouraging the Purchase of War Bonds
U.S.
Department of Agriculture Poster Promoting Victory Gardens
B-29
Bombers Under Production
Douglas
A-20 Attack Bomber Leaving the Assembly Line
Poster
Announcing Employment Opportunities
Poster
of Rosie the Riveter
Women
at Work on a Bomber
Woman
Working on a Liberator Bomber
Female
Ballplayers
Photograph
of Swing Dancing
Benny
Goodman
Japanese-Americans
Board a Train Headed for an Internment Camp
Children
Playing in an Internment Camp (1942)
Sergeant
Ben Kuroki Speaks at the Heart Mountain Internment Camp
A
Plaque Designating the Manzanar, California Internment Camp a Historic Landmark
Maps
The
‘Great Migration,’ 1900—1970
World
War II in the Pacific, 1941—1945
World
War II in Europe, 1942—1945
Foreign-Born
Population by State
Timelines
Unionization
Rates, 1930—1999
Homeownership,
1930—1990
Sources
of Immigration
Interactive Modules
Immigration
20th-Century
American Demographics
