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Chapter 28 - From Isolation to Global War

Images and Maps

Map: The League of Nations, 1920-1946

FDR Library and Digital Archives: On-Line Photos

Map: Government in the 1930s

Map: China, Guomindang Regime

Map: Germany in 1933

Benito Mussolini in Pictures

Nazi Propaganda: Visual Material

What Appeasement Sounded Like
(Audio files)

Map: Europe, 1939

Map: The Second World War, 1939-1945

Map of Operation Barbarossa

Map: German-Occupied Europe, 1942

Map: The Axis Powers, 1942

Battle of Britain

America First - Political Handbill/Poster

Pearl Harbor Raid, December 7, 1941: Overview and Special Image Selection

 

Primary Sources

The League of Nations Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, October, 2, 1920

Conference on the Limitation of Armament, November 12, 1921-February 6, 1922

The Covenant of the League of Nations

Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928

Benito Mussolini, "What Is Fascism?" 1932

Haile Sellassie, Appeal to the League of Nations

Report of the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry (The Nye Report), 1936

Franklin Roosevelt, "Quarantine" Speech, October 5, 1937

The Nanking Massacre, 1937

Neville Chamberlain, "Peace in Our Time," 1938

Franklin Roosevelt, Annual Message to the Congress, January 4, 1939

Franklin Roosevelt, Letter to the Chancellor of the German Reich, April 14, 1939

The British War Bluebook: Text of the Message from President Roosevelt to Herr Hitler of August 14, 1939

Franklin Roosevelt, Address Recommending Revision of the Neutrality Law, September 21, 1939

Franklin Roosevelt, Address by Radio to the Eighth Pan American Scientific Congress, May 10, 1940

Winston Churchill, Speech Before Commons, June 4, 1940

Winston Churchill, "Their Finest Hour"

Franklin Roosevelt, Message to the Congress Recommending Additional Appropriations for National Defense, July 10, 1940

Franklin Roosevelt, Message to the Congress Informing Them of the Exchange of Certain Over-Age Destroyers for British Naval and Air Bases, September 3, 1940

Franklin Roosevelt, Address to the Registrants under the Selective-Service Law, October 16, 1940

Franklin Roosevelt, Fireside Chat on National Security and the Common Cause ("Arsenal of Democracy" speech), December 29, 1940

Franklin Roosevelt, Annual Message to the Congress ("Four Freedoms" speech), January 6, 1941

Franklin Roosevelt, Address at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, March 15, 1941
("Arsenal of Democracy" Speech)

Lend Lease Act, March 11, 1941

Charles Lindbergh, Address Delivered at an America First Committee Meeting in New York City, April 23, 1941

Franklin Roosevelt, Broadcast, May 27, 1941

Franklin Roosevelt, Executive Order Freezing Japanese and Chinese Assets in the United States, July 25, 1941

America First Committee Charges Roosevelt with Fighting a One-Man War
(excerpts)

Statement on Sending of a Military Mission to China, August 26, 1941

Text of the Document Handed by Secretary of State Hull to the Japanese Ambassador, October 2, 1941

Franklin Roosevelt, Message to Congress Urging the Arming of American Flag Ships Engaged in Foreign Commerce, October 9, 1941

Franklin Roosevelt, "Navy Day Address," October 27, 1941

Franklin Roosevelt, Armistice Day Address, November 11, 1941

The United States Congress Repeals of the 1939 Neutrality Act, November 17, 1941

Pearl Harbor: Documents

Pearl Harbor Attack Documents, 1941

1941 Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941

Attack on Pearl Harbor as Seen from High on Battleship Pennsylvania's Mainmast

Franklin Roosevelt, Radio Address Following the Declaration of a State of War with the Japanese Empire, December 9, 1941

 

Secondary Sources

Totalitarianism in Europe (1919-1939)

The Rise of Adolf Hitler

Harold G. Marcus, "Haile Sellassie vs. Mussolini"

Richard P. Hallion, SES, The Battle of Britain in American Context and Perspective

 

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