The Contents of Table of Contents: Defining Documents in American History: World War II (1939–1946)
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