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  Breakthrough

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  20002 pages Topic overview 1270LThe World War II invasion of Europe by British and American forces took place in mid-1944. The Allies (those nations fighting against the Germans during World War II) sought to free the German-occupied countries of...
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  World War II Nurses

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200011 pages Excerpt Excerpt from No Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II Edited by Diane Burke Fessler Published in 1996 During World War II (1939-45) nearly sixty thousand American nurses served in the Army...
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  Veterans of D-Day

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200014 pages Excerpt Excerpt from Voices of D-Day: The Story of the Allied Invasion Told By Those Who Were There Edited by Ronald J. Drez Published in 1994 The Allied invasion of the beach in Normandy remains the largest and most...
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  The Human Cost

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  20003 pages Topic overview 1310LGerman leader Adolf Hitler was a staunch anti-Semite—he harbored an intense hatred for Jewish people. He and his Nazi Party (pronounced "NOHT-see"; taken from the full German name of the National Socialist German...
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  Churchill, Winston and Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Authors:Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston S. ChurchillFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200010 pages Event overview The Atlantic Charter Issued August 14, 1941. Printed by United Press in the New York Times, August 15, 1941, p.1. After taking part in World War I (1914-18) the United States adopted a policy of isolationism, vowing...
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  Churchill, Winston

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200015 pages Excerpt "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" "Be Ye Men of Valour" "Their Finest Hour" Excerpts from selected speeches delivered in the spring of 1940 Printed in NEVER GIVE IN! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches Published...
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  The American Home Front

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  20002 pages Topic overview 1210LAmerica's accomplishments during World War II were fueled largely by the collective efforts of ordinary citizens on the home front. After declaring war on Japan, and then on Germany, in December of 1941, the United...
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  Werner, Herbert A.

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200016 pages Excerpt Excerpt from Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the GermanU-Boat Battles of World War II First published in 1969; reprinted in 1998 Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, marked the beginning of World...
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  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200010 pages Speech "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" War message delivered to U.S. Congress December 8, 1941 In the years leading up to World War II (1939-45), the government of Japan was run by its military leaders. These men sought...
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  Truman, Harry S.

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200012 pages Excerpt Excerpt of Truman's comments on the Manhattan Project fromMemoirs by Harry S. Truman Volume 1: Year of Decisions Published in 1955 In the late 1930s Austrian and German physicists (scientists who study matter and...
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  Ambrose, Stephen E.

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200010 pages Excerpt Excerpt from Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany Published in 1997 The Allies broke out of Normandy, France, on July 25, 1944. The Allied forces in...
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  Sledge, E. B.

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200013 pages Excerpt Excerpt from With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa First published in 1981 On September 15, 1944, U.S. Marines invaded Peleliu (pronounced "PELL-eh-loo" or "PEH-lell-you"), one of the Palau Islands in the western...
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  Barker, Rodney

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200014 pages Excerpt Excerpt from The Hiroshima Maidens: A Story of Courage, Compassion, and Survival Published in 1985 In May 1945 the war in Europe came to a close, thus freeing up American, British, and Soviet forces, collectively...
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  Pyle, Ernie

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200015 pages Excerpt "Notes from a Battered Country" "The Death of Captain Waskow" "I Thought It Was the End" "Waiting for Tomorrow" "On Victory in Europe" Excerpts from Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches...
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  Intensification

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  20003 pages Event overview 1220LWorld War II (1939-45) grew out of a quest for power and territory in both Europe and Asia. On the European front, the war was sparked by the land-grabbing maneuvers of German dictator Adolf Hitler and his National...
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  Hitler, Adolf

  Author:Adolf HitlerFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200011 pages Excerpt Excerpt from "Hitler's Order of the Day to the German Troops on the Eastern Front" Issued October 2, 1941 Excerpt taken from Associated Press release reprinted in the New York Times, October 10, 1941, p. 2 After...
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  Pike, Catherine "Renee" Young

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200014 pages Excerpt Excerpt from Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front Edited by Judy Barrett Litoff and David C. Smith Published in 1991 Those Americans who were not fighting on the front lines...
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  Stanley, Jerry

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200011 pages Excerpt Excerpt from I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment Published in 1994 When the American naval base at Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japanese fighter planes on December 7, 1941 (see Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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  Sender, Ruth Minsky

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200016 pages Excerpt Excerpt from The Cage Published in 1986 Germany was in a state of political and economic chaos at the end of World War I (1914-18). (See Winston Churchill entry in chapter one for more information on Germany before...
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  Truman, Harry S.

  Editors:Barbara C. Bigelow, George Feldman, Christine Slovey, and Kelly King HowesFrom:World War II Reference Library (Vol. 4: Primary Sources. )

  200012 pages Speech Statements on the Surrender of Germany and the Surrender of Japan Transcribed and published in the New York Times, May 9, 1945 and September 2, 1945 Both speeches reprinted in Memoirs by Harry S. Truman,Volume 1: Year...