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Comparative Analysis -- Internment Camps
Comparative Analysis -- Internment Camps
The comparative analysis of the facilities provided the internees and the treatment accorded them by the American operated Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Texas, USA) with that offered by the Japanese operated Civilian Assembly Center at Weihsien, Shantung, China, during World War II
Comparative Analysis -- Internment Camps
Vogue Picture Records, 1946-1947.
Vogue Picture Records, 1946-1947.
Approximately seventy-four titles were produced by Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, Michigan from May 1946 through August 1947 which are highly prized by collectors for their colorful designs. Images from 12 discs are reproduced here
Vogue Picture Records, 1946-1947.
World War II Poster Collection from Northwestern University Library
World War II Poster Collection from Northwestern University Library
The Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department at Northwestern University Library has a comprehensive collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the onset of war through 1945.
World War II Poster Collection from Northwestern University Library
What did you do in the war, Grandma?
What did you do in the war, Grandma?
An Oral History of Rhode Island Women during World War II . Written by students in the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School
What did you do in the war, Grandma?
Fly Girls PBS
Fly Girls PBS
Companion site for American Experience documentary. Includes timeline and extra information of people and events in film
Fly Girls PBS
GI -- World War II images
GI -- World War II images
This collection of photographs from the National Archives provides a pictoral history of a select group of events from World War II
GI -- World War II images
Dr. Seuss Went to War
Dr. Seuss Went to War
Examines Seuss's political views shaped by World War II and illustrated in his cartoons.
Dr. Seuss Went to War
The Political Dr. Seuss
The Political Dr. Seuss
Examines Seuss's political views shaped by World War II and illustrated in his cartoons.
The Political Dr. Seuss
Surrender of Japan (1945)
Surrender of Japan (1945)
Aboard the USS Missouri, this instrument of surrender was signed on September 2, 1945, by the Japanese envoys Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu and Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu.
Surrender of Japan (1945)
United Nations Charter (1945)
United Nations Charter (1945)
On June 26, 1945, in San Francisco, the United Nations was established. Article 111 of its charter indicated that "The present Charter, of which the Chinese, French, Russian, English, and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States of America. Duly certified copies thereof shall be transmitted by that Government to the Governments of the other signatory states."
United Nations Charter (1945)
Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland.
Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
Manhattan Project Notebook (1945)
Manhattan Project Notebook (1945)
This notebook records an experiment of the Manhattan Project, the all-out, but highly secret, effort of the Federal Government to build an atomic bomb during World War II. Recorded here is the world's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, achieved on December 2, 1942.
Manhattan Project Notebook (1945)
Surrender of Germany (1945)
Surrender of Germany (1945)
This instrument of surrender was signed on May 7, 1945, at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Rheims by Gen. Alfred Jodl, Chief of Staff of the German Army. At the same time, he signed three other surrender documents, one each for Great Britain, Russia, and France.
Surrender of Germany (1945)
Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
In June of 1941, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, banning discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work. The order also established the Fair Employment Practices Commission to enforce the new policy.
Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed "vital to the defense of the United States."
Lend-Lease Act (1941)